Archive for June, 2008

28th June Comments

10 Great Software Programs You Can Get Gratis

Posted on June 28th, 2008 at 5:21 am

  As we bring another season of The PC Guy column to a close — I’ll be off for the summer — let’s take a quick look at 10 cool and free software programs. They include Paint.net, EssentialPIM, OpenOffice.org, PDFCreator, CDBurnerXP, 7-ZIP, Stickies, WordWeb and ooVoo. Coming out of left field in an already crowded [...]

27th June Comments

Ferocious Attack Kitten

Posted on June 27th, 2008 at 10:32 am

I found this when cruising around today enjoy and it might just be still available if you want it. It is over on Craigslist if you are interested. Ferocious attack kitten is available for adoption to any home willing to accept him. This destructive kitty has been trained as a proud warrior and will fiercely [...]

25th June Comments

Bill Gates’ greatest hits and misses

Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

June 30 marks Gates’ last official day of work at Microsoft. While the software giant’s founder will continue on as chairman, he will no longer be a full-time employee. ZDNet’s editor in chief, Larry Dignan, rates Gates’ many conference keynotes and product launches, separating the successful from those that missed the mark. Watch the Video

25th June Comments

200,000 sites spreading web malware, China’s hosting the most

Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Yesterday, the Stopbadware.org initiative released a report entitled “May 2008 Badware Websites Report” summarizingBadware sites May 2008 the findings out of analyzing over 200,000 sites spreading malware. With recent data for malicious sites provided by Google’s Safe Browsing diagnostic, Stopbadware.org also received responses from affected parties such as Google itself, The Planet, SoftLayer and iEurop. [...]

25th June Comments

Is it just me?

Posted on June 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

This was sent to me and I thought that since I am in the middle of the this happy stuff I should post this and maybe get a few of folks out there thinking just a little bit. Every tv station I know of has a phone in line or an email address for people [...]

22nd June Comments

Early Morning

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 at 5:51 am

Okay maybe I got up a tad early today to start my brisket here are a few pics to show what it looked like this morning. Darn it is Dark Yes Dawn comes really Early Darn even the moon is confused More to come later with a little luck.

20th June Comments

Summer is Here

Posted on June 20th, 2008 at 4:35 am

Don’t forget folks today is the longest day of the year with here in this area anyway over 13 hours of sunlight. Hey that is the weathermans claim not mine. But have a good day and with a little luck these gawd awful floods will end soon.

19th June Comments

Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please

Posted on June 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am

You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today. Consumers interested in the bargain-basement Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a “downgrade” from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate [...]

19th June Comments

Code execution vulnerability found in Firefox 3.0

Posted on June 19th, 2008 at 10:01 am

It’s not all about world records for Firefox 3.0. Just hours after the official release of the latest refresh of Mozilla’s flagship browser, an unnamed researcher has sold a critical code execution vulnerability that puts millions of Firefox3.0 users at risk of PC takeover attacks. According to a note from TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) [...]

17th June Comments

Inner Tuber Picked up by Arsenal Rescue

Posted on June 17th, 2008 at 5:19 am

Okay I don’t care how bad the situation or how stupid the idea is, trust me there is a idiot out there to always say “hey hold my beer and watch this”. It is not like there are more important things for the officials to be doing. Amid the hard work along the River, rescue [...]