It turns out that spending $59 for McAfee’s Personal Firewall just came in very handy. I don’t know if I’d be infected right now, but knowing that I was being probed was better than not knowing. And for my friend Craig, finding out that his laptop was the source was an even better thing.
It may be that I finally recognize who my peers are, or it may be that age makes me value them. Either way, sitting down to a slow meal of conversation and laughter with people you respect and enjoy seems increasingly important in life. I wonder if I just came to this realization late?
Mozilla Thunderbird is the new standalone mail client broken out of the Mozilla codebase. Although I’m running the nightly build (0.3a), it’s more stable than the old copy of Outlook 2000 (with all patches applied…) that I’ve been living on for the past few years. It’s looking like a great companion to Mozilla Firebird (standalone [...]
I helped clean my Dad’s computer of various critters, spyware, worms and trojans this afternoon. It’s incredible how fast they collect. It doesn’t help that he’s stubborn about some things and forgetful of directions. But he’s my dad, so…I keep trying to figure out why “everything” is so “slow”. I hate how opaque most processes [...]