TriNetre - Archive for November 04, 2003
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November 04, 2003
Beware of scammers
[Misc.]
@ 11:49 AM
Troy Jessup advises
When you get a request for any personal information, never give that information through a Website, Email, or Mail, unless YOU are the one making the request.
I would add telephone too to that list. Recently Surya (my wife) was called up by a credit card company whose card she owned and during the course of the conversation, the person on the other side asked her for the credit card number. My wife flatly refused to supply the number since the call was initiated from the other side and she had no way of knowing who was on the other side.
In all fairness, it could have really been the credit card company people on the other side, but what if it was not? Remember Kevin Mitnick and social engineering?
A small "tip" to all bloggers
[Misc.]
@ 09:13 AM
If you plan to use images in your blog posts, please, for the sake of everyone concerned, downsize your images. Unless you are providing the image for printing purpose, there is no reason why you should have a 300 x 300 image that is over 200KB in size! It is great to put images on websites, but please do the slightest bit of processing on them before you put them up.
Don't get me started on those who put BMP files on their web pages. I once found a BMP photo of a person that was around 200 x 200 in dimension and was over 2MB in size.
Ah the irony
[Humour]
@ 08:56 AM
From one of the mailing lists I subscribe to:
In widely publicized criticism in August, the Arab League (22
nations, all of which are governed by monarchies, clerics, one-state
parties, or military dictatorships) charged that the new American-
installed Iraqi Governing Council was illegitimate because it was
not freely elected but consisted only of appointed representatives
from various interest groups.
The League's Secretary General announced that Iraq's former seat in the Arab League would therefore remain vacant until the country has an elected government (which would then make it the League's only freely-elected government).
The League's Secretary General announced that Iraq's former seat in the Arab League would therefore remain vacant until the country has an elected government (which would then make it the League's only freely-elected government).
Microsoft's patches for patches for patches
[Software]
@ 08:23 AM
Remember Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer saying this in early October?
We have been putting out our patches on a very unpredictable schedule. We will now go to monthly patches -- no more than monthly. If we don't need monthly, we won't have them. But no more than once a month, except for emergency patches which will be made available essentially immediately.
That predictability is something you and our customers have highlighted to us we need to do, because people are feeling like they have to drop everything and deploy every patch at all times.
That predictability is something you and our customers have highlighted to us we need to do, because people are feeling like they have to drop everything and deploy every patch at all times.
Well, what is becoming predictable is the fact that Microsoft will never get their patches right in v1.0 . The recent patches-to-patches-to-patches is an example. These are for critical issues - no less. I wonder when Microsoft will get its act together. I for one am not expecting them to.
