Steven den Beste of USS Clueless just posted an entry about the tools he uses to control his internet browsing and spam email. I use K9 for email spam catching (based on an earlier recommendation from him). It works quite well for DW, who gets two orders of magnitude more spam than I do (she gets spam on the order of 10^4 since she cleared stats, I get it on the order of 10^2 since I cleared stats - both at roughly the same time). Because I get so little spam, though, K9 has some issues - ...

In this bit, Instapundit links to a couple of people who have had bad experiences with CompUSA. I note in one case the issue is with a laptop, and in both cases, the problem is with an extended warranty. I shop at CompUSA (despite lower prices available at mail-order) for a couple of reasons. The biggest one is that there is not a MicroCenter within reasonable driving distance of me. (My parents have one near them, and it has slightly better prices and a much better selection of parts.) Se...

And the news about Sony's rootkit goes on. The Register has a piece on the use of Sony's DRM scheme to hide cheaters on World of Warcraft. And Mark Russinovich continues his reporting on this issue. Be sure to check out the (very clueless) response from "XCP Support", and the various responsed to that... Wonder how Microsoft is going to respond to this...

Via a link from Instapundit comes this tale of Sony's latest DRM - and it's side effects. As a couple of people pointed out - this is probably illegal in a couple of jurisdictions, and downright STUPID to boot. I work in tech support - and have enough problems with poorly written software conflicting - this is poorly written software that HIDES from the user.

Great Horny Toads! Now Sony releases and uninstaller for their rootkit, and it palces an even BIGGER security hole on your computer. This is going to be ... expensive ... for sony

So I cleaned out my PST file yesterday - by having Offline Files eat my PST file. After having the obligatory near heart-attack, I realize the really important stuff I keep in my PST (contacts, notes) I still have on my PDA. All I have lost is something like 10 years of accumulated emails. While I'm quite sure there's a decent number of emails I ought to have kept in there, I can't think of anything truly important that I either did not have saved off in notes, or cannot have the email regene...