as seen on TV

free of any reason media technology

“news”

looks like the War of the Worlds PR has started.

Video above is in WMV format. The OS X Version seems to run much better after setting “Buffer” to 60 seconds under preferences.
It lets you enter any two digit number, but silently corrects you to 60. I would not mind if one could set this value much higher. I got the memory, and either Windows media is unable to stream reliably or all hosts that serve this content are unable to provide a continuous strean of data. Bottom line is it never really worked with the default settings. It certainly is not my internet connection or my computer. Quicktime streams and streams and streams.

Microsoft IE PR

M$

how to switch your default browser

It is so nice to see the 800 pound gorilla trying to get around on the block on those inline skaters.

BlogsNow Version 2 and spam

BlogsNow malware

BlogsNow Version2 is coming along. Instead of moving code and data from Version1 over to this host I decided to write it again. Most changes go into spam detection and filtering.

Right BlogsNow Version 2 flags and ignores –

– spam:
http://midwesternerslavished.blogspot.com/
http://pet-insurance-tips.blogspot.com/
http://guitar-rock.blogspot.com/

– indecent content:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/teen-galleries/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/adult-creampies/

[I thought that spaces had such a tight content filter, apparently not]

– ‘blogs’ that forward directly to porn sites:
http://jasmine-disney-hentai.blogspot.com

There is an ever increasing amount of blogs that only were created for spam purposes.
Right now it looks as if BlogsNow can start crawling blogspot.com blogs again in Version2.

OS X 10.4 – the first five minutes

Apple

Just installed OS X 10.4 on my PowerBook G4 A15.
You need to be patient and confident: Took an hour, and three times I was looked up from my book during the process and thought ‘oh oh’ since it just seemed to get stuck. It never was and all worked.

My first impression is that it looks great. Fonts are crisper. It overall is easier on the eyes. With every upgrade the look got cleaner. OS X 10.0 was very ugly. Since there has to be something to go away in 10.5 they left one horizontal line in the middle of the menu bar. Dashboard (F12) is one of these first time usage toys, that probably will be left alone once the
novelty wears off. Which is right about now. Same happened with video chats in 10.3. Was it 10.3 ?

Downloading the 37MB 10.4.1 update right now.

google finds adsense

google malware

searching google for adsense

Right now this search returns a domain as the first result: www.all-in-one-business.com/adsense/
The real adsense page comes in only second.

Google directs a vast amount of internet traffic. Internet traffic can be made into money. One way or another. If you get it cheap enough there will be a profit. People only click on the first results they find. There is a wide rainbow of SEO (“Search Engine Optimization”) activities. From nice to criminal,
and everything in between.

One mean trick is it to hijack a page. Basically steal it. Google never really acknowledged the problem. Nor did they address it.
That’s why they are the victim of it themselves.

more details
first blog to report this flaw

OneCare

Apple M$ malware

From a Microsoft press release:

The dynamic nature of the Internet and technology can make the protection, maintenance and optimal performance of PCs a challenge for consumers. Keeping a PC "healthy" today can be daunting and time-consuming for the average user.

They forgot to add “if you run Windows”.

OS X has no need for ‘OneCare’, since the problem does not exist.

embracing spam

BlogsNow malware

Spammers use blogs. Massively. Spam is always massive.

BlogsNow has to deal with this. Sometimes this sucks, and sometimes it’s actually an interesting challenge: How quickly can the results be cleaned up. Today it was easy:

results before filtering

results after filtering

website move

this weblog

So many sites, so many servers. But all but one (blogsnow) sites are now on the new server. Network Solution did a pretty good job in updating the DNS. For the ones where they hosted the DNS already they got the new IP out in less than the promised two hours. The ones that had a non-netsol SOA took a little bit longer, but by now (24 hours into the move) they also seem to be 90% done.

Remaining tasks:

move of blogsnow
qmail installation (still looks very complicated)

new server / new blog software

this weblog

On this server I will use wordpress for my weblog.
A slightly changed ‘Kubrick’ design.
I will not convert my old weblog.