Dirty Laundry

Gnomie John Cody writes:
Summary: Handango, probably the largest online mobile software store, has abruptly closed my account for no stated reason, thus making it impossible to honor a raffle prize that I won from there last year.
History: In 2005, I won a raffle that Handango had, which resulted in me receiving $5,000.00 in ad allowance […]

Last week a friend of mine named Joel Hodgell asked me to write a declaration as an expert witness in his lawsuit against a spammer. The spammer had hired his own expert witness, Larry G. Johnson, who wrote a declaration saying that the only way to determine the “authenticity and source” of the e-mails Joel […]

Spyware is good and bad. Good because it keeps food on the table from my day job. Bad because people have to pay people like me to remove it. Now things just got worse as some poor fellow was shocked to find his brand new Dell was pre-loaded with spyware.

Ever since reports of Microsoft’s interest in buying Claria (Formerly known as Gator), it’s been under the microscope of the public eye. That scrutiny intensified when it downgraded the threat level of Claria products in MS AntiSpyware Beta. Now, though, Microsoft itself has confirmed the aforementioned wimp-out and tried to defuse the outcry.

Hmm… It’s been a week since I wrote the first article on Logitech’s apparent limp response to a trouble report on its drivers. Since then I have heard exactly ZIP from Logitech. On the other hand, I’ve heard more than a little from fellow Gnomies who have either experienced the same problem in other apps […]

Logitech enjoys a position in the field of computer mice similar to the position Microsoft has in the software world. Oh, not as all-encompassing, perhaps, but there are an awful lot of Logitech mice out there and it forms the only serious presence in that area besides Microsoft. Our brother-in-arms Furo had some frustrations with […]

Winn Schwartau of Search Security.com writes:
This is my first rant written on a Mac. Ever.
Maybe I should have done it a long time ago, but I never said I was smart; just obstinate.
Here’s the deal. “I’m Mad! And I’m not going to take it anymore.” Of course I am talking about the WinTel world. Before […]

Mike Healan’s original article (mentioned below) generated quite a flame war, one in which I found myself an unwitting - and unwilling - target. Based on the feedback I received, it appears as though I need to make some clarification of my position if I am ever going to be able to get back […]

A security update may switch the home page of users to MSN. That’s a dirty trick the giant should be ashamed of.
Q: Last night I came home to find that my kitchen PC suddenly was using MSN, not Google, for its Internet Explorer home page. I was just changing it back, thinking the nanny had […]

I never was a true Windows Fanatic. That’s an understatement.
I am sincerely dismayed. Speechless. This Microsoft thing is just a nightmare.
Not that I didn’t know before… but when you hit your nose head into a thick glass wall, you tend to realize with greater depth that what looks transparent may be just as hard as […]

Yes, this is the first article under the heading of ‘Dirty Laundry.’ The tech industry is a huge part of the world, today, but that only means that there’s a huge amount of room for problems to grow. This first report is on a subject that has annoyed me over the years since LCDs made […]