SporkBomb

I am not a parent myself. In fact, I was a preteen myself as recently as a baker’s dozen years ago; so I guess my opinion is still very much from the other side of the fence.

I feel that having a pre-teen life where discipline is stressed makes for better adults down the road. In fact discipline where a semi-strict schedule is followed with activities and the like, in my opinion, gives kids the framework necessary to function in today’s hectic and high-tech society. I wish I had more of a strict schedule in my yearly years as I currently have a bit of trouble with getting things done. (I’m working on it and making huge strides toward fixing it). continue reading »

George Carlin has died from heart failure. The man who made famous the “seven words you can never say on television” passed away at 5:55 p.m. Sunday at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, his longtime publicist said. He was 71.

My only regret is that I passed on a chance to see him live. continue reading »

If thoughts could write blog posts, this blog would be updated every 15 minutes with relevant technological goodness. Unfortunately for me, this isn’t the case; at least not yet. I have to find time, sit down in front of my MacBook Pro (which I got off of eBay and am very happy with except for the fact that I overpaid), and try to recall what happened to me during the day. This kind of situation is not very common for me. continue reading »

When I run backups on SharePoint, I do both database backups and individual site backups via a script utilizing the stsadm.exe tool. This gives me the opportunity to both be able to be granular in my restores and also be ready for a disaster scenario. continue reading »

If you have a SharePoint 2.0 server and you have installed SharePoint Services 2.0 SP3, you may have notices a few issues. Among the several issues with the service part there are two which stand out.

1. Data view web parts cause users with access to SharePoint sites to be denied access. When users attempt to access sites, they receive an authentication prompt, which fails after being filled out with correct information. The quick workaround for this issue is adding users to the local Administrators group. This was the best (so to speak) solution to this problem before a hotfix was released.

2. The edit in datasheet View feature in lists does not work correctly. It redirects the users back to the standard view. The fix for this issue was quickly released by the community, and later corrected by Microsoft via a hotfix. continue reading »

I’m sure that by now everyone and their grandmother has heard that an ex-NSA employee by the name of Charlie Miller has managed to r00t a MacBook Air after directing the machine to a website with malicious code¹. continue reading »

First of all, malware (i.e. viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, and adware) cannot be completely thwarted by any anti-malware program. Think about it this way: you’re a single American guard in charge of protecting the whole Mexican/American border from illegal immigrants. Now, regardless of how you feel about the issue of illegal immigration, you will not be able to prevent it. The immigrants have to find a single place to cross while you have to guard everything. In the same way, the computer attackers have to find one hole in your computer, while you have to plug all the possible holes (even the ones you don’t know about). It’s not possible. continue reading »