Nothing like updating your software and having it trash important files. Apparently a version of McAfee had an anomoly in the DAT file which caused it to trash files. "Affected applications included MS Office, and products from IBM (Rational), GreenHills, MS Office, Ansys, Adobe, Autocad, Hyperion, Win MPM, MS Shared …

I deleted the forums from the site. Honestly it was a good run while it lasted, but very few people checked them out (thanks go to Alan and Steve for keeping them alive as long as they were), and they started attracting spammer accounts (people who would sign on for …

I've just spent two hours trying to get a file to have a default application. Granted, I'm using an older version of Nautilus, so perhaps this has been fixed, but it took lots of weeping, gnashing of teeth, and a deletion and reconfiguration of files to get it to perform …

Seems my assessment of PHP being an asshole magnet is still going strong, as an idiot script kiddie I've nicknamed "Papa Twerp" (So he doesn't get the google credit he sorely wants) cracked the CinciClassic site. The story is here if you want to read more.

Looks like the clowns of the Inkernet have found a new pass-time to piss me off: User accounts in phpBB. See, phpBB allows you to add a website to your profile. No big deal, right? No, it's no big deal but unfortunately it seems that people will log onto your …