Posts by Mark Hill

Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx turns back on Yahoo! search switcheroo

Jaunty?

I heard there were problems with Karmic Koala so I stayed with Jaunty Jackalope and have been very happy. Somebody tell me why I should go to Lucid Lynx?

New peripherals are not an issue - mine work just fine wiith JJ. I won't likely be getting any new hardware any time soon, so why else might I consider LL?

Of course the default search engine in JJ is Google, and that is the way I want it to stay!

Call me a creature of habit, or whatever, I still prefer Google!

Anatomy of a malware scam

User education

Wow! Everyone is focusing on their personal experiences eradicating this crap-ware. Shouldn't we look at the bigger picture and concentrate on educating users? That is our only hope against social engineering scams like this.

What if?

What if these predators refine their scam by correcting their English and interface errors?

They could probably also include code to detect the OS and send the appropriate crap. This could become "cross-platform" .....

How rampant could this get if they take care of all the obvious red flags?

BTW - I'm still not the original Paris quipster but I'll take a shot:

Paris, because even she knows this could be "hot".

Bottom Line

I am really enjoying following this thread. It is clearly a hot topic with lots of IT professionals!

Bottom line is:

These guys are already pretty good and will only get better.

The only answer is to help with the connection between the chair and the keyboard.

This is our challenge.

I'm using Paris just because it is the most attractive icon. That other Paris guy has much better reasons and much better banter than me.

All about $'s

The screenshot at the top of page 3 slays me:

"100% FREE" - yeah, right!