The personal thoughts, opinions and typos of Ron Shank
… and just in time for Christmas! 🙂
I’m testing Dr. Dave’s Spam Karma and within 5 minutes, I caught a spammer. The “making people register” idea didn’t work for real people and didn’t even stop the bots completely. So, let’s give this a try.
I’ll keep you posted.
Just found this nice little password generator, orginizer, keeper, safe, whatever – and I’m hooked on it!
KeePass the free, open-source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.
The auto-type feature is my favorite.
The new Skype status buttons rock!
FIREFOX USERS MUST UPGRADE NOW. Click here.
Computer code that could be used in cyberattacks on Firefox users has been released, increasing the urgency for people to upgrade to the latest version of the Web browser.
The two pieces of exploit code, posted online earlier this week, take advantage of a security vulnerability in Firefox that Mozilla patched in an update Thursday. In response to the exploit release, the browser maker on Tuesday upgraded the severity rating of the flaw from “moderate” to “critical,” its most serious rating.
Full story here: Tech News on ZDNet
I’ve been using skype for my outgoing calls for about a month now – and it works great! I don’t make enough calls to justify something like packet8 or vonage.
Click here and get skype – skype users can talk for free – pc to pc. But for those times you need to call someone on a real phone, this works great and I’m only using DSL.