By ray | September 19, 2007
PayPal is piloting a new feature that more financial institutions should consider and every PayPal client should use. They are making Verisign security key fobs available to PayPal users for a nominal cost of $5 each. The cost includes shipping.
The key fob generates a new six digit password every thirty seconds. You enter this, along [...]
By ray | September 11, 2007
Another month and another Microsoft Patch Tuesday so there’s another set of patches from Microsoft. This month is relatively mild. The only OS Security update is for the old Windows 2000 SP4, nothing for Windows XP or Vista. The Visual Studio and MSN Messenger updates are only rated as “important”. These should still be installed [...]
By ray | September 11, 2007
I’ve been running another site called the Spam Chronicles which was last updated after Patch Tuesday in August. I’ve accepted that I don’t have time to keep both sites up to date. So, long story short - I’ll stop even thinking about updating the Spam Chronicles and will instead incorporate the new content here when [...]
By ray | September 8, 2007
Back on Thursday Apple Software Update pushed iTunes 7.4 to my iMac. Since the Mac was off for a couple days while I traveled I figured this was the update for the new features and hardware. This was confirmed by the description.
Now, this morning Apple Software Update wants to push iTunes 7.4.1 to my iMac [...]
Microsoft released nine security updates this past Tuesday.
When it came time to run Automatic Update on my Windows XP SP2 virtual machine (running under Parallels) I got 12 updates, so Microsoft pushed more than the security updates. The updates broke down as follows (all links are to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article number listed):
Security Update [...]
Apple released a boatload of patches at the end of July and another one today. I finally finished all my patching. I better finish this post quickly, before another patch arrives. So to get into it…
I started on Thursday with Pro Application Support 4.0.1. Unaware of what was to follow I gave the patch its [...]
