How can you tell when an e-mail address isn’t correctly constructed or formatted? What about a website address or URL? Part of recognizing bad addresses and knowing how to address an e-mail correctly is understanding and knowing what the top level domains are, and how domain names are structured.
FULL ARTICLE: TOP LEVEL DOMAINS: What are they?
Continue readingReceived an e-mail today from hackers trying to trick me into opening a file attached to the e-mail. The file was, of course, malware. Below is a copy of the fake Facebook e-mail. These e-mails have been circulating since January 2010.
Full Story: Fake Facebook Password Notice
Continue readingFound an Adobe demo video on YouTube of the HP Slate:
The HP slate is Windows 7 based, as Steve Ballmer demonstrated at CES. The HP Slate Ballmer demonstrated appears to have the Kindle software for Windows installed. The HP Slate also runs Adobe Air and Flash, the iPad does not, which means the iPad can’t display the vast majority of video content on the Internet. If you’re using the iPad, you won’t be able to view the embedded video in this page. The Adobe demo video also demonstrates that the HP Slate surface is multi-touch–you can use gestures. The HP Slate has multitasking capability which the iPad lacks.
For now, the Slate has yet to be released, or have a release date announced, so there aren’t any available for purchase.. yet. But they look cool. The iPad is slated for release April 3rd.
Gee, I really have lived long enough for those Star Trek digital pads to become a reality.
Cisco announced their new CRS-3 router today. CRS stands for “Carrier Router System” and the new router, if it lives up to Cisco’s claims (and they usually d0, somehow), can forward 322 Terabits per second which is triple that of the CRS-1 at 92 Tbps. This is another in the line of ‘big fast routers’ used by telecommunications carriers that carry the bulk of the Internet traffic. These are the ‘backbone’ providers such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint etc.
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_030910.html
If you want one at home, pricing starts at $90,000.