One that's going around the web lately is poking fun at the Internet Password Minder infomercial. Infomercials are hardly known for their quality production and fair representation of their product but for this, even the concept is flawed. The infomercial states how problematic passwords can be and suggests their product, essentially a notepad with labeled lines for user name, … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2013
Disk versus Disc
I have noted to myself before that the spelling difference between 'disk' and 'disc' is problematic. At the time, I was not able to find any discernible difference in meaning, just personal preference. … [Read more...]
Microbatteries presented from the University of Illinois
The portable electronics revolution is riding on the miniaturization of electronics (chips and other components) but it also requires batteries to power these devices. Batteries have been falling behind while other components are innovating and optimizing to become smaller and increase performance. News out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this week announced … [Read more...]
Netflix discusses a future with HTML 5
While the majority of the world chose Adobe Flash, Microsoft's own hosted videos use Silverlight. Besides smaller, one-off sites, the only other big user of Silverlight that I am aware of is Netflix. Since Microsoft has announced an end-of-life for Silverlight 5 (of 2021) and have not announced a release for Silverlight 6, Netflix is forced to make plans to find an alternative … [Read more...]
Malwarebytes false positive detects thousands of entries and renders computers unbootable
A bad definition file affected Malwarebytes Anti-Malware yesterday. It detected scores of files as false positives and labeled them as Trojan.Downloader.ED. Processes, memory modules, files, and registry entries were all affected. If an unsuspecting user of the program chose to 'clean' the files, it would render the computer unbootable as key Windows system files were missing … [Read more...]