Support the Blog — Buy This Book!
For Kindle and with free ePub version. Only $9.49 Great reading.
Here is what Gary Shapiro CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) said: Dvorak's writing sings with insight and clarity. Whether or not you agree with John's views, he will get you thinking and is never boring. These essays are worth the read!
Put this ad on your blog!
Syndicate
Subscribe to Main Blog feed here:
Subscribe to Comments too (below):
Junk Email Filter
Food?! All I see is a bowl full of pretty colored penises!
looks like CROCHET to me. Not knitting…..geez, get your needlework names down. (Do you know what Darning, is John?)
Hello – I’m just looking for a spot from which to email Mr. Dvorak – this is not a post related to knitted foods.
Hey John, your column regularly skewers the hassles inherent in computing. Here’s one that may be worthy of your attention:
On my XP Home (in my home) and XP Pro (at my office) systems I’ve noticed that I can login to Hotmail, do my thing, then hit the logout button. If I then hit the login button again, it puts me into the Hotmail accounts of the other users of my computers.
Even though I’ve never set Hotmail to remember my settings or log me in automatically, it appears that after each Hotmail logout then login button push, I will cycle through every other user of the computer WITHOUT HAVING TO FURNISH A PASSWORD, let alone the user name.
It strikes me as a huge security gap and a perfectly annoying situation for an OS and the Hotmail site to create.
Am I alone in this? Can I visit any public computer, perform the sequence above and rummage through every previous computer user’s Hotmail account?
Cheers. Thanks for the great columns and blogwork.
Bruce Thiessen
zigzag61@hotmail.com