HARDWARE: VERIZON FIOS TV/DVR problems

Friday, March 18, 2011

2011-03-17 @ 2241

Several dropped signals and restarts early this evening. I just noticed that the DVR is working. “Cloud crap”? Argh!

Inet working fine. Don’t know about phone.

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2011-03-18 @ 0845

Checking the DVR and the initial menu comes up. But then it recycles. Powering down the DVR.

Watched TV again. Get ready to touch the DVR and it recycles. No signal. “Press menu to watch”

(Argh!)

Ran the DVR trying to find the Jaspers on Saint Pat’s Parade. Recycles again.

@0854 recycles again.

(Argh!)

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MACBOOKAIR: Another panic

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Sitting all alone, it locked up! Argh!

Reminds me of windoze.

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MACBOOKAIR: Refuses to resume from sleep

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Again this morning. Another bare metal restore in our future?

Argh!

I’d rate MACBOOKAIR and OSX10.6.6 as no better than windoze!

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MACBOOKAIR: Fails to resume from sleep

Monday, March 14, 2011

Argh! Twice yesterday. Need to be sure I never leave anything valuable unsaved.

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MACBOOKAIR: Watch out for “cascading” update?

Friday, March 11, 2011

Applied 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, 2011

http://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, 2011

http://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

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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, 2011

ADDRESSBOOKSYNC appears to be the culprit.

Argh!

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TECHNOLOGY: There’s nothing more frustrating than bouncing email

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Don’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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