From the monthly archives:

January 2008

Closing for a very short while…

January 19, 2008

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible! Basically, I’m currently doing the switch from Typepad to WordPress for this blog. All the posts and comments are ported over, and the DNS is currently in the middle of changing from pointing to TypePad to pointing back to my own host. If everything has been [...]

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Closing for a very short while…

January 19, 2008

Normal service will be resumed as soon as possible! Basically, I’m currently doing the switch from Typepad to WordPress for this blog. All the posts and comments are ported over, and the DNS is currently in the middle of changing from pointing to TypePad to pointing back to my own host. If everything has been [...]

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Daring Fireball on commercial malware vs commercial non-malware

January 19, 2008

First, apologies for the hideous title the post, but I couldn’t really think of a better way of putting it. Commenting on my previous post on Mac security, John Gruber asks: “But, and I’ve argued this before, it doesn’t explain why the Mac has, effectively, none. If it’s true that malware developers who want to [...]

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Daring Fireball on commercial malware vs commercial non-malware

January 19, 2008

First, apologies for the hideous title the post, but I couldn’t really think of a better way of putting it. Commenting on my previous post on Mac security, John Gruber asks: “But, and I’ve argued this before, it doesn’t explain why the Mac has, effectively, none. If it’s true that malware developers who want to [...]

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links for 2008-01-18

January 18, 2008

Don’t believe the low bit-rate ‘HD’ lie | George Ou | ZDNet.com George Ou points out that “HD” download services from Apple and Microsoft are nothing of the sort, delivering quality that’s actually below DVD. He’s not wrong. (tags: HD downloads video apple microsoft tv)

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links for 2008-01-18

January 18, 2008

Don’t believe the low bit-rate ‘HD’ lie | George Ou | ZDNet.com George Ou points out that “HD” download services from Apple and Microsoft are nothing of the sort, delivering quality that’s actually below DVD. He’s not wrong. (tags: HD downloads video apple microsoft tv)

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Uh huh, right, so there’s no Mac malware…

January 18, 2008

Note that F-Secure do not sell a security product for the Mac – so forget about that "they’re only trying to spread FUD so we’ll buy their product" stuff. More details on Trojan:OSX/DNSChanger, plus a blog post about its variants – over 60 variants of this have been found by F-Secure. And finally, yes, this [...]

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Uh huh, right, so there’s no Mac malware…

January 18, 2008

Note that F-Secure do not sell a security product for the Mac – so forget about that "they’re only trying to spread FUD so we’ll buy their product" stuff. More details on Trojan:OSX/DNSChanger, plus a blog post about its variants – over 60 variants of this have been found by F-Secure. And finally, yes, this [...]

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Service interruption on Sunday

January 18, 2008

Depending on what time I get back from the weekend’s visit, there may be a period of downtime for this blog on Sunday. I’m transferring Technovia from running on Typepad to my own hosted version of WordPress. All permalinks should remain working, and no posts or comments will be lost, but while I move the [...]

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Service interruption on Sunday

January 18, 2008

Depending on what time I get back from the weekend’s visit, there may be a period of downtime for this blog on Sunday. I’m transferring Technovia from running on Typepad to my own hosted version of WordPress. All permalinks should remain working, and no posts or comments will be lost, but while I move the [...]

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