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Comment on Complete WordPress Theme Guide by Khürt

Khürt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:22:10 +0000

Yesha, I move my blog to khurt.com/blog or islandinthenet.com

Comment on Complete WordPress Theme Guide by yesha

yesha — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:34:20 +0000

how the heck did you create that snow!!!???

Comment on Complete WordPress Theme Guide by Susan

Susan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:46:34 +0000

Wow, this is very handy for those that are new to wordpress.org. Something that all new users should look at.

Comment on Mounting MobileMe iDisk on Windows XP by Claas

Claas — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:45:53 +0000

Thanks for the tip! Kept me cycling in uid and password for a while but worked fine after retrying several times!

Comment on Mounting MobileMe iDisk on Windows XP by Claas

Claas — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:45:16 +0000

Thanks fpor the tip! Kept me cycling in uid and password for a while but worked fine after retrying several times!

Comment on My Home Setup by Cesar Noel

Cesar Noel — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:28:20 +0000

Nice Post. Wish I could afford this kind of Setup

Comment on Gmail IMAP by natalya

natalya — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:16:14 +0000

i really want google back

Comment on Patching The Cloud? by reinkefj

reinkefj — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:12:37 +0000

As old old mainframe guy, I am positive that most platforms have enough “junk” installed on them so that NO ONE can have what we in the old days would call “system assurance”. Say what one wants about the old centralized computing systems, they had change control. Until IBM started to NOT share its microcode and source code with its Customers, any one could sit down with a module and examine what was in fact running with what was supposed to be running. Often when there was an “opportunity”, the first thing that folks did was conduct a “witch hunt” for what was wrong. Today, that is impossible and unheard of.

What’s even more amusing to us “old hands” is the Linux movement and the Web-i-fication of applications. Funny how the world of “distributed computing” is swinging back to “centralization” with Web Operating Systems and Web Applications.

The Linux distribtuions are putting the end users back in control of the Operating System source code.

The Web application are making “system assurance” impossible.

A virus writer no longer has the luxury of the Microsoft mono-culture. Find a operating system hole and exploit it everywhere. And, the Microsoft death grip on applications (i.e., word processing) is being exploded by Google Docs, Zoho, and their ilk. As well as competed with by Open Office.

Anyone who feels confident that they, and their data, are not literally walking a high-wire tight rope across Niagra Falls on a windy day … Well, they are at best naive and at worst foolish.

Comment on Mounting MobileMe iDisk on Windows XP by Brent

Brent — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:57:28 +0000

Okay, after looking through this site I realize that me the techo peasant has stumbled onto a a very techy site. I am still amazed at how difficult it was to find, by way of search, a solution to my idisk problem. Again thanks, and if any of you need help with your log home problems I am your very experienced low tech guy!

Comment on Mounting MobileMe iDisk on Windows XP by Brent

Brent — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:02:25 +0000

From “old school dot mac er”. Dave you are a saviour! On friends pc xp because border between US / Canada scans practically all hardrives on almost all computers these days at crossings I use. Mind you I have nothing to hide but what a hassle. I have used idisk utility for years and can’t live without it especially for reason stated above. Apple user since 02 and never had problems until this summer. Pretty unbelievable that Apple is deleting services, or changing how to access them with little or no warning! Hope somebody (s) gets canned for this compromising of a very esteemed company. I’m bewildered by it all!