BRUCEB NEWS
What If Facebook Leaked Your Data And No One Cared?
There was a bit of a fuss earlier this month when personal data turned up on the dark web for more than 500 million Facebook users, including name, phone number, gender, marital status, city/country, and occupation. The response was pretty muted. Security experts...
ZE FRANK & THE SHOW
Ze Frank has just finished a year of producing The Show, three-minute video monologues that appeared online five days a week. Slate, the Los Angeles Times, and others are writing...
BRUCEB ON VACATION
I'll be out of town from March 27-31. I'll be in an area with cell phone coverage, but you'll have to pardon me if I'm a little distracted or if it's hard for me to hear the...
NSL GAG ORDERS
On March 9 the Justice Department's inspector general revealed that the FBI has been systematically abusing its expanded power to issue "national security letters" and obtain...
OUTLOOK 2007 & SLOW PERFORMANCE
Just a quick followup to my whining that the Microsoft Office 2007 suite seemed unreasonably slow - here's an article specifically complaining about the performance of Outlook...
TIMESLIPS & VISTA FOLLOWUP
Timeslips has updated its web site with information about Vista compatibility - or more accurately, lack of compatibility. Other vendors are working out their Vista issues;...
ONECARE & THE PRESS
Just a brief followup about the damaging OneCare putdown delivered by Arno Edelman, business security manager for Microsoft Europe.According to Microsoft, it never...
MICROSOFT EXPRESSION
Back in ancient times - 4 or 5 years ago - many people tried their hands at learning a little HTML and creating a web site. Microsoft FrontPage wasn't easy to learn but other...
ONECARE UNDER FIRE
Windows Live OneCare is under attack from the media, and unfortunately the attacks are well-founded and worrisome.Last month a terrible, inexcusable bug was discovered in the new...
PROBLEMS WITH 1AND1
Yet another tale of woe.1and1.com is one of the largest web hosting companies in the world. They established themselves in Europe before making a big splashy entrance in the US a...
FILE SHARING CAUSES CANCER
If you are downloading music with file sharing programs, the RIAA believes you are a thief and a pirate and you should go to a federal prison.That's been true for a long time....
MORE PATCH THOUGHTS
I recently reformatted a hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP from scratch, using a CD for Windows that included Service Pack 2.The next step was to download the patches and...
LIFE WITHOUT THE NETWORK
From Max Barry's marvelous book Company, about corporate life in the weeks after the computer network goes dead:"Two weeks ago the network went down; soon after Senior Management...
PATCH CRAZINESS
Patches/updates/upgrades are a mess. That's nothing new, and certainly some steps forward have been taken - Microsoft's automatic update system works remarkably well. Many of the...
THE IT CROWD
The IT Crowd is my new favorite TV show. The first season's six episodes can be downloaded pretty freely - here's one collection of links to downloadable files, for example. Much...
UNINSTALLING OFFICE 2007
I finally received a copy of Office 2007 and installed it on my Vista computer a couple of weeks ago. This afternoon I irritably uninstalled it and went back to Office 2003.It...