Hell yeah I said it. I rarely get this mad with software companies, due to the years dealing with them, but yep, fuck Adobe. It's not that your flash player hogs down performance on almost all browser. It's not that your Adobe Acrobat Reader takes forever to start up. The shit is, now, once I try to download and install your flash player, I have to download another stupid plug-in for firefox/IE. What the fuck is on your mind? There is no simple way to just uninstall the plugin either. It can only be removed by going into Add/Remove programs. And, your uninstaller doesnt always get its job done right.
Think straight before pushing out new products that forces users to do any certain things, without clearly tell them. Print out a tiny grey disclaimer on white background is not how to do it either. If your software/product/etc is good, people will seek to use them. If it's shitty, they will response. And the lesson is, read what people send to you. There must be millions of emails telling you about this shit, and it's still there.
What a way to start a long night
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Hi-Tech
Very impressive project, which makes you wish you were a billionaire to enjoy all the good stuffs:
Massive Display. Impressive, but not particularly good for everyday use at all, IMHO. Who the hell want a display that huge anyways?
Now, here comes the true focus of this post: Killing mosquitoes with lasers. I would love to have one of those for myself really! Yeah, and not just mosquitoes, any flying things around can be shot down the same way, as long as we can identify them.
Massive Display. Impressive, but not particularly good for everyday use at all, IMHO. Who the hell want a display that huge anyways?
Now, here comes the true focus of this post: Killing mosquitoes with lasers. I would love to have one of those for myself really! Yeah, and not just mosquitoes, any flying things around can be shot down the same way, as long as we can identify them.
Domestic abuse victim?
I am contacted to help out in a domestic abuse case recently. It's not that I have anything to do with law enforcement; but my friend just thought that I may be helpful. I met up with my client a few days ago. A beautiful lady, but obviously looked exhausted. It turns out that she has been abused by the same online predator for many years. She moved back locally from the West coast to seek comfort and safety at her parents house. But he did not leave her alone. S, my client, is definitely scared, and helpless. This is not her first time asking for help.
Over two years ago, S knew about J. J's been her friend for quite sometime, until he turns more and more obsessed with her. She moved a few times to run away from his invasive behavior. J always tracked her down. He hired professional online criminal to trace S. He payed for corrupted telephone employee to get a hold on S's phone call records. He has the money, the time, and the persistence to always successfully reveal where S is hiding.
S seeks help from local law enforcement before. But since J has residency in more than one State, local law enforcement does not even try to hunt down someone not in their jurisdiction, let alone wasting all their resources and time. Besides, he always have somebody else do the dirty work for him. And he always tried to remain anonymous.
S moved here just nearly a week. For the first two days, she felt as if she's finally escaped J. No threatening phone calls, no strangers following her on the street, no emails, no messages. However, on the third day, things started to change. S got online using her brand new laptop at a local book store. Later that afternoon, she got an email from J telling her he knows exactly where she is, and that it's about time she come back to him. Feared, lost, helpless and hopeless, she did not know what to do. That's when she ran into my friend. He agreed to help out. Later that night, he gave me a call.
We spend the whole day with S, going through every single thing of her life. It seems like J still does not know exactly where she is, just yet. He relies on possibly a few online criminals to trace S down from the malwares already infected her flash drive, which reports her location and allow for remote access to S computers. But luckily, S does not use the internet at home. She's still safe, for now, until J has other methods to pin-point her exact location.
My friend and I spend the next few days develop a new "life-style" for S. Starting from daily activities, to online behavior. We are trying to cut off the guys sent to track S down. But that's not all. We are playing offense this time! Good luck J.
Over two years ago, S knew about J. J's been her friend for quite sometime, until he turns more and more obsessed with her. She moved a few times to run away from his invasive behavior. J always tracked her down. He hired professional online criminal to trace S. He payed for corrupted telephone employee to get a hold on S's phone call records. He has the money, the time, and the persistence to always successfully reveal where S is hiding.
S seeks help from local law enforcement before. But since J has residency in more than one State, local law enforcement does not even try to hunt down someone not in their jurisdiction, let alone wasting all their resources and time. Besides, he always have somebody else do the dirty work for him. And he always tried to remain anonymous.
S moved here just nearly a week. For the first two days, she felt as if she's finally escaped J. No threatening phone calls, no strangers following her on the street, no emails, no messages. However, on the third day, things started to change. S got online using her brand new laptop at a local book store. Later that afternoon, she got an email from J telling her he knows exactly where she is, and that it's about time she come back to him. Feared, lost, helpless and hopeless, she did not know what to do. That's when she ran into my friend. He agreed to help out. Later that night, he gave me a call.
We spend the whole day with S, going through every single thing of her life. It seems like J still does not know exactly where she is, just yet. He relies on possibly a few online criminals to trace S down from the malwares already infected her flash drive, which reports her location and allow for remote access to S computers. But luckily, S does not use the internet at home. She's still safe, for now, until J has other methods to pin-point her exact location.
My friend and I spend the next few days develop a new "life-style" for S. Starting from daily activities, to online behavior. We are trying to cut off the guys sent to track S down. But that's not all. We are playing offense this time! Good luck J.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Penguin on the fly
Well....not really. Penguins still cant fly (very well) yet. But very very nice try though!
Floppy saved my ass
Never have I thought that i would ever use a floppy disk again. It's been years since I even see one other than the one I stole from high school library. But, well, I am happy I did. Old PC, CD/DVD port not working, HDD is fried, need a new one anyways, but there is no way to boot it up. I can always try to disassemble one of my server and insert the HDD to try to install something useful on top, but that would not be pretty. Luckily, Open BSD folks still have there boot floppy disk around and allow for network install. Just got a new floppy image from one of the mirrors, boot to the floppy and voila, a new backup file server is ready.
It was fun...
It was fun...
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Hello World!
I finally decided to start blogging again after Yahoo 360 closed down. It's been a while, and many things have changed... I'll keep this as an "online-diary" about stuffs that I care. Feel free to leave your comments.