My first post…
From my new iPad. Other than my friends never reading my blog, this is much more fun than FriendFace. The wordpress app makes updating so easy.
Going to give it a shot, Code Year 2012
Learned this weekend from a friend about Code Academy starting a free online programming tutorial using javascript. Personally I have avoided programming in the past short of learning some perl and shell scripting to make my life as a SysAdmin easier. Figured I would give it a shot and maybe shoot to get a work at home job writing code. Or if I am really lucky some really addictive smart phone/tablet game that sells millions for $.99 a pop. Then I don't have to worry about my rather weak 401k's I have.
Phisher’s always getting Crafty
Got a forwarded email from my mom today about an email saying she was over her quota on her email account. She didn't think it was real, but I figured I would poke at it. Basically it is just a form document on Google Docs spreadsheet app. I guess this was only a matter of time, Though I would imagine Google could track this pretty easily.
What is sad/interesting is they did all this work to make some SEEM official but for 2 obvious things:
- The email came from a legit email account that belonged to no one involved w/ the email account. He is an "advisor" w/ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administation in Washington DC. Guessing someone needs to scan for malware.
- They left the abuse button from Google on the page
GoGo Phisher attacks
Ubuntu 11.10 and Gnome 3 are a great example of why users won’t switch to Linux on a Desktop
Listening to people I converted to using Ubuntu complaining about issues w/ 11.10, I just kinda brushed them off and chided them for not learning new ways of doing things.
Sadly, I was wrong.
Today I forgot the power adapter to my MBP so I ended up having to use my work laptop I had installed Ubuntu 11.04 and then later upgraded to 11.10 "just to do it", but never really used it as a desktop till today.
While I don't think Unity is "all that bad", I understand it is a simplified UI for simple people. What I do have an issue w/ is something as basic as setting Proxy server settings is broken, has been broken and no plans it seems to fix it any type of timely manner. Specially for a bug that makes the OS useless in any environment other than a home network. From what I can tell, This bug/broken functionality started back in Sept. 2011. Here it is 4 months later and it is still in horribly broken state.
Guess I will just start pimping OSX since it at least works and can be used in a real environment. Only reason I even started to use OSX was due to I had more friends converting from Windows to Mac's and I needed to learn it. Once I started using it I realized it was a better "*nix" desktop and have not looked back since. Before that I had been using Linux (Mandrake, Mandriva and then Ubuntu) as my work place OS for 10+ years. Even when my job title was Windows SA.
Really pains me that a major Linux desktop OS has become worse than Microsoft Bob.
