Internet users rejoice: one of the world’s top spammers has been indicted! Only another ten billion to go. No, there aren’t ten billion spammers at present, despite the evidence of your in-box. From what I’ve heard, there are only about 200 large spam operations at any one time. But that makes little difference when, like [...]
Archive of entries posted on 31st May 2007
“Network Magic: Printer and File Sharing Made Easy!”
A long time ago, I bought a license for the ZoneAlarm Pro software firewall. I don’t use it anymore (no reflection on ZoneAlarm, which was excellent the last time I used it, I just don’t see sufficient need for it any longer to justify installing it), but I still sometimes get e-mails from Zone Labs, [...]
Doctor Who Coming to an End, Again
It is with a heavy heart that I read this article this morning, saying that the recently-revived Doctor Who series is once again headed for oblivion. As a teenager, I would stay up late one night a week to catch reruns of a full story (a variable number of episodes, totaling anywhere from 45 minutes [...]