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A couple of weeks ago I got this rather dubious email from the fine folks at Google. The said that my site was being ranked as ‘possibly’ unsafe.
OK…
They warned me that search engines would display that datapoohbah.com might contain files that could hurt your computer. WTF?
I know I can be harsh at times, and there may be links to some utilities here or there that might be of dubious nature. But there isn’t a damn thing here that’s harmful to your computer.
They claim that my site might have been hacked… Uhm, OK, I’d probably notice if it was but can certainly understand that some folks might not notice. Fair enough.
But what they didn’t do was tell me what exactly it is that they think is “potentially unsafe”.
This is a crock. I couldn’t reply to the email as it was a notification email only. I found the program and sites used to ‘rate’ unsafe sites like mine and have sent several emails asking for clarification. All to no avail.
Thanks Google.
I’ve half a mind to start sending out emails warning that Sergey Brin, just might have an STD. Apparently I don’t need to disclose what STD it is, or even if it’s true.
Written by datapoohbah on February 19th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Wow,
Not sure when this was released or how I missed it. But this is pretty much the ultimate color/theme tool.
FREE at http://kuler.adobe.com/
Simply wow.
Written by datapoohbah on November 28th, 2006 with no comments.
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You had me at EHLO
has the new MS Exchange 2007 Management Console. Looks like a dose of sanity and common sense has infected them after the nested folder madness of the exchange 2003 admin console.
In exchange 2003 there was no clue as to whether a property page needed to be accessed by right clicking for the properties menu or to keep digging deeper.
Written by CmdrChalupa on August 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
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HKTL_SUPERSCAN.3
OK this tops my list of extremely annoying. Trend Officescan implies that superscan 3, the supereffective fast and highly useful network scanning utility is ‘grayware’.
Well, yes, I suppose it could be used for nefarious purposes. Just like a brick could be used for nefarious purposes. As an example, we make houses out of brick, but if I took a brick and dropped it on the heads of the idiots who did this at Trend, they would probably recommend a law to outlaw bricks.
thanks to officescan a 15 minute task to scan a network looking for hardcoded ip addresses turned into a 45 minute task of trying to configure officescan to allow me to use a great piece of software.
Note: Superscan 4 is out, but it sucks. Superscan 3 is all you probably need and it’s not bloatware.
Written by CmdrChalupa on July 6th, 2006 with no comments.
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News Here:
The seizure of ThePirateBay.org’s entire server farm will guarantee this BitTorrent tracker will remain offline until the police complete their investigation. The uncertainty on the part of the police may stem from the fact ThePirateBay.org's servers only host .torrent files, not actual copyrighted material. As a tracker, ThePirateBay.org's function is to index .torrent files and to direct BitTorrent traffic and maintain the swarm (uploads and downloads.) The downloaded .torrent file contains all the necessary information to locate and download the queried file. The legality of indirectly linking to copyrighted material has yet to be tested by Swedish courts.
Whether this will keep ThePirateBay.org offline indefinitely is another matter.
“We are not sure when it will return, but we are moving it to another country if necessary,” brokep said.
Time to find another source for your warez. You know who you are.
Written by CmdrChalupa on May 31st, 2006 with no comments.
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Screenshots! from the official blog. Looks like some extremely good stuff. Auto-suggest for usernames, true drag and drop for calendaring, Definitely getting to the point of being able to ditch the desktop fat client for many users.
Written by CmdrChalupa on May 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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