Argh! Twice yesterday. Need to be sure I never leave anything valuable unsaved.
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MACBOOKAIR: Fails to resume from sleep
Monday, March 14, 2011
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MACBOOKAIR: Watch out for “cascading” update?
Friday, March 11, 2011Applied an Mac update. It triggered an IPAD update. It triggered a reprocessing of all photos.
About 3 hours later, it’s bout 75% done.
I’ll be more careful about updates on the MACBOOKAIR.
I thought that MICROSOFT had the monopoly on bad updates.
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Who “owns” your hardware?
Wednesday, March 9, 2011http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/03/06/google-nukes-rogue-android-apps-on-users-devices
Andy Greenberg
THE FIREWALL
Google Nukes Rogue Android Apps On Users’ Devices
Mar. 6 2011 – 9:26 pm
Your Android phone has a built-in kill switch for nasty apps. And Google, apparently, is not afraid to use it.
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Over the weekend, the search giant announced that it had remotely wiped “a number” of malicious Android apps from users’ phones, programs that earlier in the week had been identified as malware and pulled from Android’s app store. “We are remotely removing the malicious applications from affected devices. This remote application removal feature is one of many security controls the Android team can use to help protect users from malicious applications,” Google wrote on its mobile blog, linking to an explanation it posted in June of a built-in functionality for deleting apps from users’ phones.
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The last time Google deleted applications that were already downloaded to users’ devices was in June, and its targets were two proof of concept apps built by security researcher Jon Oberheide. As I wrote at the time, that use of its kill switch seemed to be a loud warning to malware writers about the company’s ability to remotely destroy their tools. After all, Oberheide’s apps were designed to show the possibility of creating an Android-hosted botnet, not to actually create one.
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Isn’t anyone concerned that “HeadQuarters” can assume control of YOUR hardware and override something you’ve done?
“Sorry, we know better.”
We’ve seen Amazon nuke content that a reader had paid for. We’ve seen Microsoft “Live Update” computers into bricks with “fixes” that break rather than fix. And, content purveyors have always harassed legitimate uses and legal Users with “digital rights management” schemes that “fit” like a suit from Omar the Tent Maker (i.e., good for the provider, disasterous for the User).
I think this is a demonstration to Android Users that you’ve taken a “snake to your bosom”. And, what happens when the bad guys crack the HQ code and they can put stuff on or take it off your hardware.
Haven’t we been down this road before?
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TECHNOLOGY: FACEBOOK can’t be the internet’s identity server
Tuesday, March 8, 2011http://stevecheney.posterous.com/how-facebook-is-killing-your-authenticity
How Facebook is Killing Your Authenticity
Mar 6, 2011 at 6:14pm
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Face it, authenticity goes way down when people know their 700 friends, grandma, and 5 ex-girlfriends are tuning in each time they post something on the web.
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An interesting and astute observation.
On a personal note, I have some relatives, close friends, some not-so-close friends, acquaintances, e-friends I’ve never met, fellow alums fro different schools, past colleagues from various past employers, consulting contacts, fellow “outplacement” turkeys, headhunters, fellow authors, a few companion tin foil hats, and a few complete strangers.
On Facebook, like Twitter, like LinkedIn, they become one glob of undifferentiated mass of folks.
It makes the news streams into a torrent of items that can’t be reviewed, used, or actioned in any rationale way.
Since Facebook doesn’t allow alternate identities, either by its initial design — back when they required a college email address to get on, its current TOS (according to how I read it, but I’m not a lawyer, or do I play one on TV), or its new assumed role as the inet’s “identification server”.
In considering “identity”, information security gurus always identified the concept of an “identity” with the concepts of “roles” and “user control sharing”.
Interesting?
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SERVICE: BOXBE NOTRECOMMENDED
Tuesday, March 8, 2011*** begin quote ***
Hi – thanks for sending me a message. I am using Boxbe to manage my email inbox. Once you’re on my Guest List, your email to me will be delivered with priority.
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BOXBE doesn’t present the challenge for me to “solve”.
So there is no way for my message to get thru.
Anyone ever test these things?
And, when you use spam filters, what are you missing?
Argh!
BOXBE, and all spam filters as a general rule, NOTRECOMMENDED!
I “wash” email though gmail for a spam filter.
Argh!
Sorry, but the ISPs could stop this in a heartbeat if they wanted to spend the effort of implementing email authentication.
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MACBOOKAIR: HIgh CPU effectively locks up box
Sunday, March 6, 2011ADDRESSBOOKSYNC appears to be the culprit.
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: There’s nothing more frustrating than bouncing email
Saturday, March 5, 2011Don’t you just hate when you “lose” someone? I do. The symptom is that you’ve taken your “eye” off them for a minute and — poof — like Jack in Titanic they’ve slipped beneath the waves. Lost forever. That’s what happens. Guess it’s a fact of life. Emails, especially corporate emails, cease when the person moves on. Would it be such a big deal to forward it? People should really use their personal email or, even better, have their own domain.
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May I suggest that you have your own domain? The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) I gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”.
May I suggest that you need a website? As a student, you have tons of time and are producing content. Papers, pictures, whatever. You need to get them on the web to estabish “your brand”. The web is always straved for content. By adopting a consistent strategy of displaying high quality content under your own “brand name”, you will take over the first page of Google. (For example, Google “Ferdinand J. Reinke” or “ReinkeFJ” and you’ll see I have EVERY one of the first page entries.) You don’t want a dry static page, but a page that shows off all that stuff you claim to have (i.e., organizational and communications). :-) LOL
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People shouldn’t be “lose-able”.
They should “stay” where I left them. Like keys.
Argh!
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MACBOOKAIR: Could Apple have a wifi software problem?
Friday, March 4, 2011I don’t know. I don’t have the hardware, software, or expertise to debug the situation. But, when my MIFI and my WIFI, both have sucky performance. And, programs, that access the network, seem slow. And, I ‘always’ see “searching for networks”. Could it be that they have a significant problem with wifi at the operating system level?
Sigh!
How to figure that our?
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SOFTWARE: CARBONITE is NOTRECOMMENDED
Friday, March 4, 2011I did the fix and the problem still exists.
Their response is to “call” us. Argh!
This is supposed to be “production quality” software on a bullet-proof OS.
It’s an illusion.
I’ve moved CARBONITE to my list — NOTRECOMMENDED!
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SOFTWARE: CARBONITE has a complicated fix?
Thursday, March 3, 2011To whom it may concern:
This is a stunning set of instructions. And, you expect non-techies to perform these steps. I’d say you have a design problem to have to do this.
Fjohn
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Carbonite Mac Support wrote:
Response (Ricky C.) 03/02/2011 02:26 PM
Hello Ferdinand and thank you for contacting Carbonite Customer Support.
We reviewed our records under your email address ‘XXXXXX’ and it indicates that you have backed up 33GB of data approximately on Carbonite server from your Mac named ‘ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air’ and 5 files are left pending for backup.
We request you to uninstall Carbonite from your Mac manually and then reinstall it in order to fix the issue of high CPU usage of your Mac.
Please follow the steps below to manually remove Carbonite’s program files:
1. Restart your Computer.
2. Control click on Finder on the dock and select ‘Go to Folder’.
3. Type /Library/Application Support/ into the window that appears.
4. Move the ‘Carbonite’ folder to the Trash.
5. Control-click on the Application Support folder in the header bar and click the Library folder.
6. Go to the Contextual Menu Items folder and move ‘CarboniteCMM.bundle’ to the trash.
7. Go back to the /Library folder and go into the LaunchAgents folder.
8. Delete ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist’ and ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitestatus.plist’.
9. Go back to the /Library folder, and to into LaunchDaemons.
10. Move ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitedaemon.plist’ to the trash.
11. Go back to the /Library folder, and to into PreferencePanes.
12. Move ‘Carbonite.prefPane’ to the Trash.
13. Restart your computer again.
14. Empty your trash.
You can reinstall Carbonite by logging into your Carbonite account and clicking the ‘Reinstall’ button. Reinstalling Carbonite will not affect your previously backed up data. It will resume your backup from where it last left off. For more details, please click the link below.
Reinstalling Carbonite on a Mac: http://carbonite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1406
Please let us know if you need additional assistance.
Sincerely,
Ricky C.
Carbonite Customer Support
Back it up. Get it back.
Important Message: If you have recently restored your Carbonite backup to a Windows 7 or Windows Vista computer, please take a moment to verify your backup settings. Visit http://carbonite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2654 for instructions.
For the latest news, tips, and discussions about Carbonite, visit our blog at http://www.carbonite.com/en/blog.
Customer 03/01/2011 02:56 PM
to=macsupport
to-domain=carbonite.com
subject=User incident report
from=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
version=1.1.4 build 389
os=Mac OS X 10.6.6
category=Troubleshooting
comment=Carbonite is absorbing 75% of the CPU. Is this the reason my macbookair slows down to a crawl periodically.
serial=212XXXXXXXX
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CarboniteLog.zip, 1436252 bytes, added to incident
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