Category Archives: computer

Phishing for W2

Always read emails carefully, especially the stuff you cannot see. Emails are going around trying to get you to update your IRS W2 form. We received one here, but if you look closely it is from irs.com as opposed to irs.gov. From: Internal Revenue Service < update@irs.com > Date: November 9, 2009 6:16:29 AM EST [...]

Random limerick

I wrote a program to generate random limericks. Here are two example results: There once was a man in crowded  Who thought they were quite shambled.  They had their observation’s,  And some abbreviations,  But could not really unheeded. There once was a lady from miserably,  Who thought they were quite fashionably.  They had their coupon, [...]

Go get IE7

Hot on the heals of the release of IE7 comes news of a remote exploit already. Then I get this email in my George Washington inbox: …IE7 is anticipated to cause severe problems for users attempting to access GW applications such as Banner, Blackboard, EAS, or Kronos. Therefore, GW departments and individual staff and faculty [...]

Cluttering the airwaves

I just purchased a new Intel 2915 wireless card with some of the money I got from my consulting work at COE. Although they (Intel) say this only works on centrino laptops, they lie. Running just swimmingly on my AMD Turion64.