ChaseandSam.com

Srizbi botnet now accounts for close to half of all spam!

The “great makeup mines of Peru”.

Firefox 3 release candidate 1 now available for download.

the price of SPAM has gone up! (and you thought gas was expensive

HP has its eye on the teens with a Fall line of PC products (did anyone ask a teen?)

Fake Codec in AOL serving up a Trojan…. Be careful!

Google Translate has added 10 more languages! (now it’s easier than ever to communicate with your Polish friends… just lay off the jokes okay? ;)Are you having the Windows XP SP3 reboot problem? Here’s some tips on how to solve it.

World’s smallest helicopter (for humans).

Cell phone myths debunked

CBS acquired Cnet for 1.8 billion this week.

Some links from Uncle Monster:

Robot Asimo conducts Detroit symphony

Multi-tasking while driving may be beyond the capacity of our brain.

For the ultra-lazy: Naptv

retro iPhone dialer

DIY Gaming Notebook

Sky-high dining!

How to get kids to eat their meats and veggies.

From Ubuntu John:

Ubuntu Newsletter number 91

And finally, a joke from Ken Keller:

COMPUTER TROUBLE!!!

I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Eric, the 11 year old
next door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control and asked him to come
over. Eric clicked a couple of buttons and solved the problem. As he was
walking away, I called after him, “So, what was wrong?”

He replied, “It was an ID ten T error.”

I didn’t want to appear stupid, but nonetheless inquired, “An, ID ten T
error? What’s that? In case I need to fix it again.”

Eric grinned…. “Haven’t you ever heard of an ID ten T error
before?”

“No,” I replied.

“Write it down,” he said, “and I think you’ll figure it
out.”

So I wrote down: I D 1 0 T.

I used to like Eric.

It sounds like the scammers are doing a lot of damage to Ebay’s rep - should you avoid Ebay for now?Maybe so….

107 year old lightbulb still burns in California fire station!

Uh-oh: Some Windows XP Service Pack 3 users reporting continuous reboot problems.

DRM dealt a setback - EA makes a bold move to back down from draconian DRM planned for Spore and Mass Effect. And there was much rejoicing!

Before and after satellite pictures of Cyclone Nargis hitting Myanmar.

3 Critical Updates on the way for Tuesday - you’d best patch them fast!

10 last minute Mother’s Day gifts

From Tollie:

Twitter Local - all Twitterer’s and Tweets within 10 miles of Birmingham.

From Uncle Monster:

Beware files sharing! Fake mp3 files running rampant, and many of them contain a trojan horse.

FBI withdraws secret internet archive data probe.

Here’s a machine that can crush 60 hard drives an hour. As a side note: did you know that data can be recovered from a hard drive that has been flushed, run over and thrown out a seven story window? Here’s the maker of the machine.

Transistor guru Morgan Sparks dead at 91.

12 core chip on the way!

MSI’s sub micro desktop

Torrentspy fined 110 million for facilitating illegal file sharing.

Hong Kong bank loses server with info on 159,000 customers. Oops.

From Ken in Vestavia:

Great Northeast blackout of 2003 caused in part by a computer bug.

WOW! - Now I’ve seen it all! Find and broadcast wifi from your…. shirt?

From Ubuntu John:

Ubuntu newsletter #90

From Dan F.

Turn your e-waste into cash

DRM strikes again: MSN music buyers to lose their songs.

Microsoft considering hostile bid for Yahoo. Do something already!

Wikipedia blocks U.S. Department of Justice from editing.

I’m sure Tollie will cover this, but iTunes now has same day DVD releases available for download.

Is your keyboard four times more bacterially invaded than a toilet seat? Could be!

The world’s first digital camera was invented in 1975! It stored images on a digital cassette tape, and took 23 seconds to record each image. The image size? .01 megapixel, of course!

Microsoft has released Cofee - a thumb drive, super hacker toolkit, to law enforcement.

From Jarrod Patterson

Louie Giglio on Laminin.

From Uncle Monster:

Sequel to Wargames… It’s not in theaters, it went straight to VHS err ……DVD. http://tinyurl.com/49c4sn

Researchers are studying a small group of people who can
remember what happened to them on every day of their lives.
Interestingly these folks are otherwise normal. http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/life/themorningread/article_2026952.php#

Boomerangs work in zero gravity. This is a demonstration on The
International Space Station by Japanese astronaut Takao Doi:
http://iss.jaxa.jp/library/video/sts123_boomerang.php

Volvo is working hard to produce an injury proof automobile by
the year 2020. It will involve a lot of electronics. http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/05/volvo-promises.html

Here’s a tip about Gmail from a great site with a lot of good stuff.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont-know-about-seriously/

From Ken in Vestavia

How to install Vista in 2 minutes:

From John S.

AllMyFaves.com - a site with icon links to tons of interesting sites. (Note: we haven’t visited all of the links that are linked off of that page - follow those links with care)

From Ubuntu John:

Ubuntu Newsletter #88

 Ecycling day is today! Bring your tired and worn out electronics to Century Plaza from 8-5. Click link for more info.

Microsoft delivers final ultimatum to Yahoo.  

AVG free releases version 8.0 - rejoice!

Twitter fires their VP of engineering.  

 From Ken in Vestavia:

Nancy Pelosi invents Bible passage out of nothingness 

Gartner states that Microsoft Windows in danger of collapse 

New chip might let iPods store 500,000 songs! 

List of hardware bandwidths

From Uncle Monster:

Spam email celebrates its 30th birthday this year (with copy of the original, 1978 spam!)

500,000 websites (running Microsoft Server) hacked using a SQL injection hack
More info
More info #2 

Dell will continue to offer Windows XP for sale after Microsoft deadline.  

FBI is attempting to monitor the backbone of the internet

Don’t do business with potential terrorists or criminals (i.e. fix their computers) or you might be held liable!

Data thieves are setting up supermarkets where people  can buy gigabytes of stolen data

Microsoft delivers XP sp3 late to Technet subscribers - who pay thousands per year to get patches early!

Watch free (and legit) tv online at Hulu 

Shape Shifting Robots on the way? 

So long SPOT watches 

From Ubuntu John:

Ubuntu newsletter #88 

This is a gotta see internal Microsoft Vista SP1 video: (WOW!, and by WOW, I mean be prepared to be unsettled and astonished!)

Before you do anything else - check out David Platt (pastor of Brookhills church) preaching one of the most powerful and controversial messages you will ever here on what is the Gospel! RIGHT CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD (right click -save link/target as) or CLICK HERE for the audio page.  The message is entitled “the Gospel: What we believe”.

Twitlinks - the latest links posted by top the top Twitter people

Pong-Out - play a simultaneous game of Pong and Breakout. Frustratingly difficult!

Make a sawed off usb key

9 inch Asus eee pc on its way

More on Wii Fit

Almost 20,000 comments on the Clinton/Obama debate here at this link (ABC news)

Russians find dead dragon?

From Uncle Monster:

Windows XP Service Pack 3 details (coming to Microsoft updates at the end of April - available for manual install)

Cisco to kill Linksys brand soon?

The real web 2.0 - “The Grid”, is 10,000 times faster than a normal broadband connection.

Users fighting to save Windows XP

Here comes the Mac clones?

Vista Service Pack 1 is a huge download!

From Ubuntu John:

Ubuntu Newsletter 86

Eweek - What does Google know about us?

Shuttle’s new $100 pc - it looks sharp!

Adobe TV… No you can’t find the latest Lost episodes… it’s all about Adobe

Fiber Optics and the future of Broadband… A winning combination

Avast antivirus beefs up its antispyware components and gets a great rating from PcMag.

Keepass - a free password manager…very useful for those who have to login to many sites.

Color Blind Gamers - should developers care?

Infrarecorder - freeware cd/dvd burning software.

Wesabe - think Quicken combined with some social networking features.

My Qik account - bookmark it for later access to live and streaming video.

Sandy - a free, email based personal assistant. Quite an interesting idea (and a somewhat misleading URL)

20 ways the world could end.

News from Uncle Monster:

Time to celebrate!! Computer viruses and trojans pass the one million mark.

8 core AMD processors on their way!

CIA using Google to spy

Man arrested for using a hedgehog as a weapon

Lawyer who attempted to extort file-shares is banned for six months

For the hard core techies out there, Uncle Monster recommends: PC-BSD and alternative operating system.

He also recommends Glary Utilities, a package that contains a registry optimizer, and other very good system utilities.

In honor of Ubuntu John: 18 Linux programs that replace Windows programs.

Windows 7 due sometime next year, according to Bill Gates.

2007 Online Crime sets new record at 240 million. My prediction - 4 times that much in 2008.

MySpace getting in the music service business.

Verizon’s portion of the 700Mhz spectrum to be used for faster wireless internet!

Windows XP to be available on low cost computers through 2010

Christianity Today 2008 book awards

Automated Hijack This log parser (analyze spyware/malware on your system).

Best ways to stop spam

German pilot during WW2 shows mercy to wounded English bomber - the two pilots reunite almost 50 years later!

News from Uncle Monster:

City of Birmingham gets 1000 XO (One Laptop Per Child) computers - see below for video reviews of the OLPC.

Superfast internet on the way for some

California allows a lawsuit against a website in an interesting take on free speech.

Sprint releases the Instinct - an iPhone competitor?

Why Linux doesn’t need to be defragmented

Puppy Linux - highly recommended by Uncle Monster

Google to layoff some DoubleClick employees

News from Ubuntu John in Vestavia:

Ubuntu Newsletter 85

John recommends the Eusing Registry cleaner - a powerful and free tool to keep your computer running well. ***read the instructions well - registry cleaners can cause trouble if misused.

News from Dan F.

Youtube review of XO (One Laptop Per Child) laptop by a nine year old

Another one (focusing on the ebook reader)

And finally, a librarian reviews the OLPC

Today’s episode of Tech Talk is sponsored in part by Southern Computer Tech - located off of highway 150, near the Galleria. Call them at 987-5339.

This one could be a biggie, folks: Some major websites (including Walmart, Target and USAToday) have been hit by a big web attack.
More info here.

A 3G iPhone 2.0 should be launched during the second quarter of 2008

First computer attack to inflict physical damage on humans. (This is very sad indeed).

AT&T to launch mobile tv network in May

Looks like Facebook is under a big malware attack from an XSS worm.

Youtube stats made available to video publishers

5 things that should be on the next iPhone

IRS warns of online tax scams

Mac hacked first in contest.

From Uncle Monster:

Photoshop now available for free from within your browser

How to make a robot out of a toothbrush (yes, really!):

Blu-Ray DRM = fail.

Unpatched vulnerability in Word

AMD set to release crippled quad core processor as a triple core.

Playstation network compromised

From Ken in Vestavia:

World’s greatest record/cd collection on sale through Ebay for three million!
From Ubuntu John (John in Vestavia):

Weekly Ubuntu newsletter (issue 83 - March 16-22)

Weekly Ubuntu newsletter (issue 84 - March 23-29; work in progress)