Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A Microsoft sponsored study by 3Sharp has found that the IE7 Anti-Phishing toolbar is the best blocker of all those nasty phishing sites you keep hearing about, well 100 of them anyway. You can read the full story below.
MS Anti-phishing tool wins MS Bakeoff
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog
Is just 100 sites a sufficient [...]
Posted in Blogging, I.T., IBM, Personal, Sites & Services on September 24, 2006 | 1 Comment »
There was a time when some of us involved in working as Level 2 Product Specialists for the Aptiva PC support desk (Colin, Claude, Ciaran, Ger, Ian, anyone out there, anyone?)got a telling off if we so much as read the Unofficial Aptiva Forum or the pages it spawned at the time. Now IBM [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 24, 2006 | 1 Comment »
It’s amazing the extent some will go with their comment moderation on their blog. About 10 days ago I posted a thank you on the Flock blog to say well done to all the guys for getting the memory leak that had annoyed so many users fixed and out in a reasonable length of time. [...]
Posted in Blogging, Personal, Security, Windows on September 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Of all the places to pick to open his mouth, Bob Gleichauf, CTO of Cisco’s Security Group has chosen a Gartner Security summit to say he is scared of the changes that Windows Vista will bring. What a bunch of scaremongering crap from someone who really should know better.
Vista will bring many innovations to the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I do! I’ve many fond memories of working at IBM and many a funny story, but none include the spontaneous combustion of laptop batteries causing bomb scares. I wonder what Chris, C.J, Big Mike and all who were Level 2 ThinkPad Product Specialists in my time would make of this story. Wherever you guys are, [...]
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