I keynote, write, and podcast about Sustainability, CleanTech and Supply Chain
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A friend’s pc was infected with the irc/backdoor.sdbot trojan recently and I cleaned it out – eventually. This is a tricky little trojan which hides in the System Volume folder (where the System Restore info is held) as well as…
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Security center could not change your automatic updates settings
I was working on a friends PC the other day. It had Windows XP Home on it and several viruses! After cleaning out the viruses, I updated the PC to XP SP 2 to get the security advantages that the…
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Changing the Blog address in WordPress
I recently changed the address for this blog. It was at http://www.tomandpilar.net/wordpress/ and it is now at http://www.tomandpilar.net/tom/ – Doing this in WordPress is quite straightforward once you find the right helpfile! I looked in Options/General in WordPress and found…
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Testing the new uri setting
I just re-set this blog to publish to a different directory so this post is a test to see if the new setting has taken!
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From the horses mouth?
RedmondMag, the so-called independent voice of the Microsoft IT Community, has published an insightful article outlining in great detail, all the reasons to dump Internet Explorer! Soon they’ll be telling us to use Linux! Click to buy on Amazon.Mandrake Linux…
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Arnie signs bill requiring paper-trail for e-voting
In Ireland, we had a debate earlier this year on e-voting. The government tried to impose e-voting on the entire country but hadn’t properly thought their strategy through. When the perils of a paperless system were pointed out, the government…
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Tiger with Multiple Personality Disorder?
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is an affliction made famous in several movies such as The Three Faces of Eve and Sybil. Tiger, the name of the next release of Apple’s OS X, seems to be suffering from MPD! An article…
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Google censor results
I used to have a lot of time and respect for Google – their search is cool, super-quick, and the results have never been dictated by advertisers. Now, however, Google appears to be bowing to pressure because in its recently…
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