http://www.lovebumppolly.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:18:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're Eric Schmidt, you have to pray that Google is not going to need to hire an out-of-work comedian when it turns 30. Schmidt knows this narrative through first-hand experience. He also knows that Google at 10 occupies a stronger position than did Microsoft at a similar point ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/09/why-im-passing-on-googles-10th-anniversary/ The iPod came in just a couple of days--but as soon as I unwrapped it and connected it to my Mac at home I got an ominous alert from my usually quiet antivirus software. The iPod, it informed me, contained some virus known as AdobeR.exe. As I dug into the problem, I ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/an-ipod-arrives-with-a-virus/ Primavera was not alone in the project management software field. Seven years ago, Microsoft announced plans to step into the market with its own project software. (Credit: Primavera Software) The deal, whose financial terms were not disclosed, is expected to close by the end of the year. Through it, Oracle aims ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/oracle-orders-in-primavera-software/ "Microsoft's applications fail all the time. "But for us our signals need to get to our audience, so it's a different world. And it's not acceptable for there to be any interference." --Dennis Wharton, National Association of Broadcasters This is exactly what Wally Bowen, from the Mountain Area Information ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/debate-rages-over-free-wireless-spectrum/ But Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt Software criticized Secunia's report as being a "useless test." And others, too, have criticized the metholodgy used. The Secunia test departed from the traditional testing done by organizations such as AV-test.org and AV-comparatives.org, which use collections of malware to demonstrate the on-demand and heuristic capabilities of ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/secunia-exploits-security-suites-flaws/ (Credit: CNET Networks/Corinne Schulze) Sony has come a long way since the release of the NW-MS11 Network Walkman. One of the company's first flash-based MP3 players, the NW-MS11 didn't even play MP3s and was crippled by copy-protection woes and painfully slow transcoding, but even back then, Walkmans were a model of ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/sony-s-series-walkman-wins-editors-choice/ Update: As I was publishing this blog, my mail service was restored. Well, I guess I've had enough e-mail for one day anyway. I'm headed to bed. Hopefully everyone's servers will be working tomorrow. I tabbed over to my Yahoo Mail window and noticed that my window, which had been working ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/now-yahoo-mail-is-having-problems/ Mozilla will continue to update Firefox 2 until mid-December. On Thursday, Mozilla pushed out a new security update for its new Firefox browser. Version 3.0.1 for Windows and Mac addresses vulnerabilities in malformed GIF files on Mac OS X, command-line URLs that could launch multiple tabs when Firefox is not running, and a ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/mozilla-updates-firefox-with-three-security-patche/ I was all set to write about handwriting in Microsoft Office 2007 today, but a funny thing happened on my way to open Outlook 2007: The program vanished. Gone. Without a trace. Tomorrow: handwriting in Office 2007 (this time for sure!) So I did what any Windows user would do: I ignored ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/microsoft-office-outlook-2007-pulls-a-vanishing-ac/ Stereophile magazine editor John Atkinson's recent article, "Getting the best from your loudspeakers," provides gobs of useful information. Atkinson's feature looks at stereo speakers; I'll tackle 5.1 channel placement soon. Perhaps his most important bit of advice comes early on: "Entire books have been written about the relationship between loudspeakers ... http://www.lovebumppolly.com/index.php/2010/08/speaker-placement-tips-for-audiophiles/