I’ve written in this blog before about Facebook’s privacy issues, and the importance of making sure the privacy settings in your Facebook profile match what you want to have happen to your personal data. Brian posted on this same topic and has some good points and detailed instructions; the comments are also worth reading.
I went [...]
I’ve had Ubuntu on my laptop for a while, and it never hibernated. I’d do what looked like the right things, but it just didn’t work. So a couple of days ago I decided I should try to track down the problem. I was partially successful; hibernating a laptop properly seems to be difficult. Here’s [...]
Tagged hibernate, ubuntuIf you use the Bad Behavior/Bad Behaviour plugin for WordPress, you will need to update it immediately if you don’t want to be blocked from accessing your own site (which is rather disconcerting). More details at Bad Behavior 2.0.11. Simply overwriting the old files with the new should work; another option is to rename the [...]
I just got back from dropping off three monitors (two big and bulky, the third doesn’t work), two PC boxes (one works: a friend was upgrading so I offered to get rid of the old one, the other doesn’t even turn on any more), two keyboards, a 9600 baud modem, an old router, and assorted [...]
Bob Sutor has a good posting on some of the same privacy issues I talked about in my Web 2.0: Issues posting, in more depth and with some different nuances. Worth reading and thinking about.
There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of privacy, security, copyright — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take privacy for example. On many social networking sites people sign up and then put in all their personal information simply because there’s a field there for it. [...]
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