Last night, I watched a 60 Minutes episode on CNBC which explored the danger foreign hackers pose to the US, especially to the banking industry, the government, and the power grid. The story (which seemed to be pieced together from stories originally aired on 11/08/09 and 3/27/09) highlighted the rapid spread of the conficker worm, [...]
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Why The Media Ignores Linux
September 19th, 2011 
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Posted in Internet, Linux, Microsoft, News, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Technology 
Comments OffOS Comparison Chart
July 28th, 2011 Tim I am often asked why I prefer the Linux operating system (OS) to Microsoft Windows or MacOS. One reason is that I like the concept of free sharing of ideas and information espoused by the Linux community. This is in stark contrast to the vicious, litigious culture of trade secrets fostered by proprietary software producers. [...]
Stupid Things #1 – Changing Amazon Email
August 8th, 2010 Tim I decided to start a gripe list. So here is the Stupid Things item for today.
Changing Amazon Associates email is incredibly convoluted and stupid. At every other site, you change your email by logging in, changing your email, and verifying the new address (with a notice sent to the old address).
Top 4 Reasons to get a CompTIA Certification
June 11th, 2010 David Smith CompTIA or Computing Technology Industry Association is a non-profit global trade association created in 1982. It used to be called Association of Better Computer Dealers, Inc. (ABCD) and it “represented the business interests of the information technology industry” (CompTIA literature).
Happy Document Freedom Day
March 31st, 2010 Tim Today is Document Freedom Day. If you’re not one of the open source faithful, or even if you are, you might not be familiar with this digital independence day. According to the web site at http://documentfreedom.org, “Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort [...]
Posted in IP, Microsoft, News, Open-Source, Software, Technology 
Tags: DFD, document, Document Freedom Day, educate, freedom, grassroots, liberation, open document formats, open standards 1 Comment »Virtual and Real Currency Exchange
March 9th, 2010 Tim I had an idea several years ago for a web site that acted as an exchange for real and virtual currencies. I was never an avid gamer but, after discovering Second Life and IMVU, I realized how many people were spending (and earning) money in these 3D virtual worlds. While there are some companies (IGE [...]
Posted in Finance, Future, Internet, Virtual Worlds Tags: currency, currency connect, cyber, exchange, FaceBook, fund, ige, imvu, money, myyearbook, network, paypal, second life, social, virtual, Web Comments OffMozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome
February 22nd, 2010 Tim I haven’t made any scientific comparisons, I only share my experience. I’ve been a devoted Mozilla/Firefox user for many years. My current workhorse is an AMD Phenom Quad core box with 8GB RAM and it flies. I tend to keep 40-60 tabs open, on average. I can run the latest Firefox on this box and [...]
Posted in Browsers, Reviews Tags: browser, chrome, Firefox, Google, mozilla, performance 9 Comments »The Android Tales
September 2nd, 2009 Tim This is where I’ll reveal my adventures in Android development. More coming soon…
The Devil’s (Linux) Advocate
May 19th, 2008 Tim I’m one of those Linux fanatics who enjoy trying new distros almost constantly. Because of the freedom inherent in the GPL and other “open” licenses, there are always new flavors of my favorite OS springing up. Early spring of last year, I found an Ubuntu-based distro called UbuntuSE. I was attracted to the screenshots of [...]
Cops Acquitted, Murder Justified
April 25th, 2008 Tim NYT Headline: 3 Detectives in Bell Shooting Acquitted Why does this come as no surprise? The defendants waived their right to a jury trial, which many people thought was a risky move. What was risky about it? Instead of having twelve honest citizens decide their fate, they entrusted the decision to an agent of the [...]
