Eric Florack on October 28th, 2007

It is amazing to me how often Glenn Greenwald can trip over his own tounge and still be convinced he’s smarter than everyone else. This one’s going to require some background.

As Bruce McQuain noted the other day, the

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Eric Florack on October 16th, 2007

Adrian Kingsly Hughes over at ZDnet hits very close to where I live, since I’m a end user support type:

 On Friday I posted briefly about yet another potential problem with Windows Update (my ZDNet blogging colleague Mary Jo Foley

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Eric Florack on October 3rd, 2007

An interesting video over at Billy’s tonight, Showing the flight capabilities of the F22 Raptor.

And as someone else I read just recently, and frankly I forget where, said; “Too bad Ayn Rand never figured out how to pay for

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Eric Florack on September 23rd, 2007

Looking through my mailbox this morning, it has become clear to me why the internet is slower than it should be…

  • Dear Bank of America Customer…. (I’m not, now, nor have I ever been a Bank of America customer)
  • A

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Eric Florack on September 15th, 2007

If you’re doing FTP work… and who, doing website work doesn’t, may I suggest FILEZILLA?

Just grabbed it today, in an attempt to automate some of the processes of web support. One of the complaints with the GUI FTP client

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Eric Florack on September 14th, 2007

OK,gang, here’s the lowdown.

Last week, we had  an attack on the core SQL database that runs BitsBlog. The most obvious result of that attack was four instances of an HTML FRAME callout showing up showing up on the header

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Eric Florack on September 10th, 2007

There’s been much in the way of argument back and forth over the projects that the government of San Francisco California put up for a municipal WiFi project.  Frankly, with government driving the truck, I didn’t figure it would get

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Eric Florack on September 9th, 2007

Over at A Western Heart,  things are sweet, where John Ray says…

 Coming as I do from a big sugar-producing area (Far North Queensland), I always read carefully the little sachets that one gets with one’s coffee in coffee lounges.

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davidl on September 4th, 2007

Idiot

In 2003 George W. Bush fell off a Segway.  The Daiy Mail (UK) ran the snarky headline:

“You’d have to be an idiot to fall off, wouldn’t you Mr President”

On 24 August, Access Hollywood, reported the editor of

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Eric Florack on August 29th, 2007

McQ passes something interesting:

Look like a bit of a breakthrough at Purdue:

Researchers at Purdue University have further developed a technology that could represent a pollution-free energy source for a range of potential applications, from golf carts

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Eric Florack on August 19th, 2007

Hey, Billy, as regards Vista… I tend to concur.  But you apparently have forgotten the first rule of Microsoft operating systems.  Never use version one of anything they produce. By chance, do you remember Windows Millennium Edition?  Case in

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Eric Florack on August 15th, 2007

I haven’t commented on this before because frankly there wasn’t good enough evidence to comment on.  However, as it stands now there’s a good deal more in the way evidence, and I think it’s time I commented.

I’ll use Glenn

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davidl on August 13th, 2007

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Newt Gingrich on the world that works and the world that does not work, video.

Hat tip:  Allah Pundit, Hot Air.

 

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Eric Florack on August 12th, 2007

If you’ve not updated to version 2, you should. Trust me on this.

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davidl on August 4th, 2007

As of Wednesay, 1 August 2007, catostrophic bridge disasters were rare.   After the events of Wednesday, catostrophic bridge collapses remain rare, and will remiain rare. 

We have evidence in video form. and from the Northwestern University, Infrastructure Technology Institute

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