Tag: Tech

  • Stupid, Cost-Conscious Me

    I’m kicking myself for opting for the cheap graphics card when I bought my laptop. William talked me into finally checking out Civilization IV, but it turns out my graphics card can’t hack it (only 32MB, and 64MB cards are required). I’m quite tempted to go buy the game, see if it will run, and…

  • E-mail Insanity

    Message count for the 24-hour period ending 12:15 AM, 12/14/05: Legitimate messages: 70 Spam messages: 607 Total messages: 677 That’s ridiculous. Thank goodness for filters. EDIT: Totals for the month of December, to date: 654 legitimate messages and 6,957 spams, or 7,611 total messages. That comes out to 585.5 messages per day. The above totals…

  • Study: 1 in 4 targeted in phishing scams – Dec 7, 2005

    The study is discussed on CNN.com. I would have thought the number would be more like 4 in 4. The 70% success rate of phishing messages is even more disturbing. Granted, phishing attacks have gotten a lot more sophisticated, but still; people shouldn’t get online and conduct sensitive transactions if they don’t know how to…

  • IM Swarms

    There’s some sort of mass psychology at work, here: I’ll be sitting at home, trying to read a couple more pages for school before crashing for the night, and it starts. I get an IM, and thirty seconds later, another, from a second person. Then, yet another person IMs me, seconds after that. It happens…

  • Windows XP Pro SP2 Hibernation Problems (Update)

    I’ve mentioned before the nasty problem of having “too much” memory, when running a Windows XP laptop. Well, I finally gave up and pulled 512 MB out of mine, at least for the moment. I had resolved to install Linux, but realized there are, indeed, a few programs I still care about but hadn’t found…