Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
According to a post on Google's Official blog, a new feature will be available to fight comment spammers. Adding a "rel=nofollow" attribute to hyperlinks will prevent spammer links from being harvested by search engines. According to the post major blog software vendors are supporting this move. The solution itself is ...
Posted in Spam and Email | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
(TurboTax now works fine with FireFox on Linux. This post will remain here for historical purposes.)
I have using Intuit's online version of TurboTax for the past few years to file my taxes. However, this was the first year I used it in Linux. Logically, since it is a web based ...
Posted in Linux | 6 Comments »
Thursday, January 13th, 2005
Do you like the Opera form autofill feature? What about FireFox's or Google Toolbar's? IANAL, but it might be patented ... by Microsoft, Apple and Intel. Take a look at the following three patents:
6,651,217 - "System and method for populating forms with previously used data values"
6,192,380 -"Automatic web based form ...
Posted in Technology | Comments Off
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005
While recently I discussed the possible motivation behind Microsoft's purchase of an antispyware company, today I wanted to share my observations on the actual program, Microsoft AntiSpyware BETA 1.
The download and installation process went smoothly although two things were a bit strange. First I was prompted to whether I wanted ...
Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005
Today I came across a VERY strange IE bug - a certain page would not work in IE6 under Windows XP SP2, while it worked fine in Opera, Mozilla and Firefox. The message shown would be as follows:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site [url] Operation aborted
After more digging, I ...
Posted in Programming | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, January 4th, 2005
Recently I ran across a rather strange error with different browser. Popup windows could be maximized in Opera and Mozilla, but not in IE. The code I was using was as follows (click here to try):
window.open('', '', 'width=200,height=200');
After some digging, I ran across the following snippet in MSDN:
When the sFeatures ...
Posted in Programming | 3 Comments »
Saturday, January 1st, 2005
In the past two weeks, three different computers I have worked on for clients displayed the same problem: Outlook would stopped working completely with some weird error message. Doing a quick check with telnet to my own mail servers and running tests on other computers with clients' mail servers quickly ...
Posted in Technology | Comments Off
Saturday, December 25th, 2004
(This article was published at Circle-ID)
As the year comes to a close, it is important to reflect on what has been one of the major actions in the anti-spam arena this year: the quest for email authentication. With email often called the "killer app" of the Internet, it is important ...
Posted in Spam and Email | Comments Off
Thursday, December 16th, 2004
Following on the heels of their aquisition of an anti-virus company last year, Microsoft is now buying a relatively unknown anti-spyware company called "Giant Company Software" (kudos to MicrosoftWatch). What's more interesting is what they have posted on their homepage:
Microsoft plans to make available a beta version of a spyware ...
Posted in Technology | 2 Comments »
Sunday, November 28th, 2004
Larry Seltzer of eWeek mentioned in his blog last week that a new security hole has been discovered in Windows. Larry mentions in a followup post that whoever discovered this bug released more details (without waiting for a patch from Microsoft). This was also mentioned in the Internet Storm Center's ...
Posted in Technology | Comments Off
