This is nauseating...

https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/67367/upgradegate-microsofts-upgrade-deceptions-undermining-windows-10

I was annoyed by Apple's pushy iOS 9.3.2 upgrade pressure; but this is way beyond anything Apple has done so far...

We live in amazing times indeed where planetary shipping can be visualized like this...

https://www.shipmap.org/

I have been tinkering with a nifty little RaspberryPi clone made by Lemaker and called BananaPi (basically a RaspberryPi model B with 1 gigabyte memory, eSATA connector, and gigabit ethernet). It's the size of a deck of playing cards in it's clear acrylic case, and runs CentOS 7 Linux server operating system ( Read more... )

Steven Levy has an excellent article about the current attempt to squash privacy and encryption by the FBI and why this all sounds so familiar, it's because we already had this battle before, twice, in the 1990s... and both times wisdom prevailed. Will it prevail again?

https://backchannel.com/why-are-we-fighting-the-crypto-wars-again- ( Read more... )

I am starting this year's garden a little closer to the right time this year....

Vegetable Garden, 2016

It looks like some extortionists hijacked the transmissionbt.com website, and published for about 36-48 hours a fake version of Transmission (bitTorrent client) that claims to be v2.90 but is actually RansomWare that will encrypt your files and demand payment for decryption keys. Don't use Transmission v2.90 and be careful out there.

http:// ( Read more... )

I am testing a new (4th generation, Oct 2015) AppleTV as a replacement for my 2nd generation AppleTV (Sep 2010 ( Read more... )

Quick reminder to all those in Virginia; it is election day tomorrow - state and local offices will be holding elections in every district in the state. Don't forget to go vote ( Read more... )

First really serious hack to impact iOS devices that are not jail-broken manages to inject spyware into several apps that were actually in the Apple App store. There are several good articles covering XcodeGhost and the hacked apps that may have been developed with XcodeGhost. One of the better written ones is on ArsTechnica, of course...

Apple ( Read more... )

In case you missed the Apple Keynote last Wednesday, September 9th, 2015, there was a segment of it I would like to call attention to; the segment covering the upcoming 4th generation AppleTV (available in late October 2015). This interface is what TV needs to be ( Read more... )