Not that outlook is much better, but you can import to it.
iCal is supposed to, but try to figure out the format.
Hmmm!
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SOFTWARE: Apple’s calendar is an “island”
Friday, September 11, 2009
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TECHNOLOGY: We’re at war against foreign powers and criminals
Wednesday, September 9, 2009http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0020002HDYSG&page=1
World War 3.0: 10 Critical Trends for Cybersecurity
September 2, 2009 7:22AM
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The Internet, private networks, VPNs, and a host of other technologies are quickly weaving the planet into a single, massively complex “infosphere.” These connections cannot be severed without overwhelming damage to companies and even economies. Yet, they represent unprecedented vulnerabilities to espionage and covert attack.
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Bottom line: We care complacent. We’d better deploy IPv6 for its improved security now. Next, we better start encrypting everything in sight.
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SOFTWARE: Snow Leopard, ILife09, and IWork09
Monday, September 7, 2009RE: SNOW LEOPARD
Mine went smooth. Don’t believe the estimates it spouts. I got the PACK with Snow, iwork09, and ilife09. Took about an hour each. Only surprise was TextExpander and Scrivner needed a refresh. Only grip is that it left iwork08 and iwork09 behind. Other that that it was a non-event.
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SERVICE: BLUEHOST problem; but whose?
Saturday, September 5, 2009#DEN-45763-514
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Unfortunately, your server is still under a DDoS attack and will move extremely slowly (if at all). As soon as the attack discontinues or is otherwise resolved, the server will function normally again. A DDoS attack is essentially a terrorist attack on the server, usually done by a hacker getting viruses in thousands of computers and having them send as many connections as possible, as quickly as possible, to the box.
We are working to reduce the effect of the attack and find out which account is being targeted. At that point we will have to ask that account to find a new host. Unfortunately, we can’t know which account is being attacked without extensive steps, as the IP Address on the server is Shared.
DDoS attacks can last anywhere from hours to days.
Your data is safe. Just currently inaccessible.
If you’d like to learn more about this kind of terrorist attack, check
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SOFTWARE: FASTDIAL lost all my settings
Friday, September 4, 2009Argh!
And, I don’t know where it kept them.
Argh!
And I didn’t keep a list of them.
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Google doesn’t index comments
Thursday, September 3, 2009Interesting. Google, the be all and end all of internet search, does NOT index comments. Very interesting.
Leaves an opening for a competitor.
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LINKEDIN: Scammer sighted on LinkedIn
Saturday, August 29, 2009OVER ON Vincent Wright’s MyLinkedinPowerForum
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I googled him and found out that in addition of being a LI member (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mr-isaac-howells/13/7b1/35 and http://www.linkedin.com/pub/isaac-howells/12/b23/944 where you will notice that the same person works in two different African countries and has no connections), I also found out the Spanish based version of http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/index.php where warnings have been issued about this person being part of a worldwide fraud attempt.
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The scammers “DO” social networking too. Forewarned is forearmed!
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TECHNOLOGY: Google Books and The Internet Archive
Friday, August 28, 2009Say what you like about the Google Books Kool-Aid, but it tastes much better than Microsoft’s sour grapes
by Paul Carr on August 22, 2009
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But one aspect of the settlement wasn’t so uncontroversial, and that was the issue of so-called ‘orphan works’ – books which are still in copyright but where the identity of the copyright owner is, for one reason or another, unclear. As part of the settlement, the book industry agreed that, with certain restrictions, Google could scan orphan works without being held liable for breach of copyright claims if the rights owner subsequently came forward. In return Google agreed to create an independent (and open to all) rights registry letting authors of orphaned stake their copyright claim.
At first glance, the deal over orphaned works seems as reasonable as the rest of the settlement – these are books for which no-one is being paid and which otherwise would be hidden away in libraries and second hand bookstores. But still Google’s competitors are crying foul.
The Internet Archive is particularly annoyed, arguing that they too are scanning millions of books for the public good, but without any blanket copyright protection for orphaned works. And so, through a group they call Open Content Alliance, they hope to pressure the Department of Justice to extend the terms of the settlement to everyone, not just Google.
For the other companies joining the Alliance – including Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon – there are more obvious and nakedly commercial reasons to oppose the settlement. But that doesn’t make their objections less valid. Back in April, Erick Schonfeld wrote a passionate – and compelling – argument for the immunity to apply to everyone so that Google wouldn’t have a monopoly position where they could effectively charge whatever they like for downloading digital copies of orphaned works.
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It would seem we need a law change. If you even believe in “imaginary property”. (It seems absurd to call what the congress critters pass “a law”. Now the Law of Gravity; that’s a LAW!)
When a book goes OOP (Out Of Print), or is otherwise “hidden” from the public, it should enter the public domain. Wasn’t the purpose of copyright law to encourage sharing of “intellectual (imaginary) property”? When that sharing ceases, shouldn’t the protection?
Seems only fair to me.
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TECHNOLOGY: Cloud computing held hostage to politics
Tuesday, August 25, 2009http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/21/flickr-v-free-speech-where-is-the-courage/
Flickr v. Free Speech. Where Is The Courage?
by Michael Arrington on August 21, 2009
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Flickr really stepped in it this time. And they’ve sparked a free speech and copyright fascism debate that is unlikely to cool down any time soon.
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People are angry over the takedown. There are lots of pictures mocking President Bush on a Time Magazine cover on Flickr that haven’t been removed. And of the Heath Ledger Joker character.
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The “big government socialists” — regardless of party — hide their prejudices in law. We can’t trust “big business”; any more than we can trust “big gooferment”. They are in a symbiotic relationship. Both are big parasites on the poor serf just trying to make a life. Business serves us; companies I’m not so sure of. When they get big or when their liability is limited, that’s when the trouble begins.
Expecting free speech isn’t in their vocabulary.
Cloud computing gives “them” power over content.
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TECHNOLOGY: Why do I have to …
Thursday, August 20, 2009… put in “state” from a pick list and zip code?
Do the programmers ever think about the user interface?
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