Browsing articles from "September, 2010"
Sep
24
2010

Net Neutrality gets a poll and loses

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» Poll: Majority Oppose Net Neutrality Adoption – Big Government. So yes, this pleases me.  I’ve noted before that I love the idea of net neutrality, but I’m not willing to let the government regulate one more aspect of my life in order to make it a reality.  Apparently the nation agrees with me. I do, however, find it funny that things like this can sway elections and public opinion, when you read the details [...]

Sep
21
2010

Spotlight Index Problems on Mac

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Part 12. There’s an process on Mac computers called ‘mds’ that shows up in Activity Monitor if you’re looking.  That process is Spotlight indexing your computer and it can sometimes use up quite a bit of CPU. I’m saving this article for myself so that I can fix the issue if it gets too bad on my machine.

Sep
9
2010

Apple Makes a Smart Move

This morning Apple announced that they’re lifting some of the restrictions that they had placed earlier this year on developers and the tools they use to create applications. They also announced that they’re going to publish official app review guidelines so that developers will have a much better idea of whether they’re app will pass the review process or not. Both are smart moves.  They’ll benefit the development community and, by extension, the platform in [...]

Sep
3
2010

Anatomy of an Identify Theft Email Scam

Got this email in my inbox this morning, and at first blush it looks pretty convincing. So the important question is, how do you know if it’s real or not?  There’s no single point of failure here, an element that says it’s a scam for sure, but let’s look at a non-exhaustive list of what’s wrong with this email. Which Inbox First look at your own inbox.  Is this the email address that your bank [...]