Attack [on] the Mac!!!

Here are two very interesting articles about Mac Security and the recent attacks against them. Although it looks like Macs are still safer, it also looks like people are now starting to turn their attention over to the challenge of exploiting this undiscovered territory of Mac vulnerabilities. Both very good articles by Larry Seltzer of eWeek.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1928716,00.asp

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1916535,00.asp

Entry for 2/21/05

This is just too funny to make it wait. I've heard about it, but getting the chance to see the pic makes it even funnier.

http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/4630

Entry for 2/16/06

This article touches on something that is so very, very true about communication over the internet.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html?tw=rss.index

Optical Illusions are pretty cool. These pictures take that to a whole different level with using simple paint in the right places:
http://www.2loop.com/3drooms.html

A Lot of people don't even know how to drive their cars, and yet somehow we feel compelled in inventing technology so that they can fly them???
http://news.com.com/StudentsCatCMITCgiveCflyingCcarCaCshot/2100-11389_3-6040007.html?tag=nefd.top

Finally, I heard this morning that last night's episode of American Idol received much better ratings than the Winter Olympics. Not a surprise really. Americans want to be entertained. They want to be entertained when THEY want it. Not when the network wants it. NBC holds up all of the good coverage until later on in the evening, and after most people have exhausted their ability to stay up. Add that to the fact that the results are easily discovered on the internet or the local news. Not much entertainment coming from the Olympics with all of that against it.

Entry for 2/7/06

Well, this weekend will certainly prove to be interesting. On the agenda: A solo trip to New Castle, PA where I will engage in hours of co-op video game play with my cousin Ryan, A two hour coffee house concert singing and playing guitar, and of course witnessing the Pittsburgh Steelers battle the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL with my Steeler-fan friends.

But enough about me. Check out this cool Beta software that pretty much allows any windows user to get the "Expose'" feature available on the Mac. I like it, except for the fact that it is a Beta version with limited configurability. Its called, "Small Windows", and it allows you to view all of your currently opened windows in thumbnail form. Here's the link to it:

http://smallwindows.sourceforge.net/

...ok, since this is delayed, I'll catch everyone up. The weekend went very well. The Steelers won the Super Bowl...WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!! And I had fun showing a handful of people my incompetence at using a tamborine. Ryan and I finally defeated our video game too.

On that software, its VERY buggy. I finaly uninstalled it today, after I found it just getting in the way and being too buggy to use. I thought that I'd use it more, but my old habits of using a taskbar are too hard to break. Oh well. It is still worth looking into if you have the time and patience.