You’ve Received a Trojan Horse
It seems that the “family member” spam that I’d talked about a couple days ago was a malware attempt, as well as (probably) a probe to confirm e-mail addresses.
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“The United States National Medical Association”
More spam today, with a very similar modus operandi as yesterday’s bogus greeting card message. If you want to see the message itself, you can find a two-year-old copy here, word for word. The only difference is that my copy actually linked to a different .COM site with a nonsense name, though the visible text …
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“You’ve received a postcard from a family member!” Yeah, right!
What I actually received was the message below, with the above-quoted subject line. It smelled fishy. I’ve gotten these greeting-card messages before, but they’ve always included the name of the person sending the message. If the site didn’t have the person’s name, then how would it know that it was a family member? And what’s …
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Linux Is Outpacing Windows
Microsoft has really been spinning it’s wheels for the last six or seven years. With the exception of improving security, nearly everything it has done since Windows 2000 has been focused on sizzle rather than steak. The same operating system with prettier pictures. You can see it in the whole user interface, and you can …
“Vietnam vet strangles rabid bobcat”
And I thought it was just Israelis who had interesting sports.
“Blackboard paint makes kitchen scribbly”
Neat idea.
“Icebergs collect mini ecosystems, lock up carbon”
I’ve long suspected that the Earth must have some kind of system to keep it’s temperatures stable. This may be it.
“Quick-charging electric cars could be round the corner”
If the claims of this particular company are true, the last technical hurdle to the true electric vehicle may be on it’s way out. I don’t know whether this is a good thing or not, since we’re having problems generating cost-effective electricity already. But it might at least help further with the smog problems in …
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The OS Wars II: The Next Generation
I’ve hired you to help me start a war. It’s an prestigious line of work, with a long and glorious tradition. — Vizzini, from The Princess Bride VMware is a great program, and I like it a lot. But there are some things you just can’t do in it… full 3D graphics in Linux, for …
Geek’s Corollary to Clarke’s Law
I just saw this on Groklaw (from commenter “PSaltyDS”) and had to grab it: Geek’s Corollary to Clarke’s Law “Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.” Perfect. 🙂