Monday, February 2, 2004

Bernie Buchta, who teaches about computers and the Internet at several Detroit-area community centers, has put together an excellent guide in removing spyware/adware, those intrusive and obnoxious programs that sneak their ways onto PC hard drives, slowing down the machine and taking over the Web browser. Here's a link to all the Windows resources and guides he gives his students... [Tech-Knowledge] 11:48:23 PM

With IBM's acquisition of Rational Software, Grady Booch -- one of the original developers of the Unified Modeling Language and a thought leader in the area of architectural software -- has become the proverbial kid in the candy store. In his role as an IBM Fellow, Booch will help invent IBM's software future. He believes IBM's large cash reserves and a close working relationship with the high-voltage brain power of IBM Research will significantly quicken to market a range of technical innovations in the area of tooling. [InfoWorld] 11:40:54 PM

Chris sez, "Swipe focuses on automated collection of personal information. You can read the barcode on your driver's license, request your personal information and opt-out from commercial databases, and with the 'data calculator,' determine how much your personal information is worth to direct marketers. It's neato torpedo." Link (Thanks, Chris!) [Boing Boing] 11:39:02 PM

Frightens young children and (some) Americans.... [vowe dot net] 11:37:33 PM

[larger image] The MSI installer is not supported under Wine so you have to install on Windows and copy the files over. Instructions: 1. Install the latest wine from www.winehq.com (or emerge wine, apt-get wine or whatever). 2. Install Notes 6.51 under Windows. 3. Copy the Lotus/Notes directory to... [vowe dot net] 11:35:51 PM

Apple Slips WPA Security into Original AirPort Cards (02-Feb-2004; 3.5K) [TidBITS] 11:31:50 PM

NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.8. This release of NetNewsWire and NetNewsWire Lite fixes a couple small but important bugs and adds a bunch of feeds to the Sites Drawer. See What’s New in 1.0.8 for details. [ranchero.com] 11:25:10 PM