Fixing Corrupted Spotlight Indexes
One of the more interesting features of Mac OS X is its Spotlight – a system-wide metadata database (metadatabase?) that was obviously rushed out the… Read More »Fixing Corrupted Spotlight Indexes
One of the more interesting features of Mac OS X is its Spotlight – a system-wide metadata database (metadatabase?) that was obviously rushed out the… Read More »Fixing Corrupted Spotlight Indexes
3COM, through its TippingPoint division is creating a vulnerabilities market. They offer compensation for vulnerabilities found, and seem to have a responsible notification process. The… Read More »3COM 0-day initiative
Quoting FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, from an e-Week article: “Can we finally agree that something drastic needs to be done? We can start by facing… Read More »FCC Comissioner Michael Copps – My Hero
On Monday I went to a memorial service for Suzy Smith, a friend and former co-worker. Suzy and I chatted over e-mail regularly, mostly about… Read More »Suzy Smith – 1940-2007
Glen passed on the fact that Google Maps will happily route your journey beyond the boundaries of roads if you ask it to. Their time… Read More »Google Takes a Bath
Bill Stearns has posted an analysis of his spamtrap data, covering the past six years. He makes a point of just providing data and not… Read More »Raw Spamtrap Data
I’ve recommended SuperDuper to a few folks looking at Mac Backup solutions based on this survey so I figured it was time I implemented it… Read More »SuperDuper considered Harmful
At the end of an article at PCMagazine about Jeff Hawkins’s new company, they ask him how Palm is doing. An interesting bit he included:… Read More »Why the Treo Windows Models Exist
Just in case you’re ever temped to buy anything from a company called Tzome (no link, purposely), remember that they forced themselves upon the Mozilla… Read More »Spammer Tzome abuses Mozilla Bugzilla
I saw this SD Card from Kodak: at the checkout display at Wal*Mart. The packaging claims the card will last “up to 50 years”. They’re… Read More »Kodak Claims 50 Years for SD Cards