Friday, August 07, 2009

Copy or move?

Windows XP shows this dialog when you drag files from a zip file to a folder. Is it asking for the difference between copy and move (in which case the yes/no options have no meaning)? Or is it questioning the standard Windows function of dragging files from one window to another?

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Google Calendar sync broken!

Google calendar sync stopped working all of a sudden. Gives a spurious "please connect to the internet error". Others have had the same problem. It does not even generate any logs for me to look at. :(

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Best capers of 2008

A blog entry on wired.com with a list of seven great crimes from 2008.   Some interesting ones:
  1. The robber that lured decoys to the crime scene by advertising for construction workers on Craigslist.  He made off with $400,000 stolen from an armoured car but was caught a month later through a tip-off.
  2. An Eastern European website selling stolen identities that turns out to be a sting operation.
  3. The guy who wrote a script to open 60,000 new brokerage accounts to harvest the few pennies they deposit to verify bank accounts.
  4. The thieves that reprogrammed ATMs to think they were loaded with $1 bills instead of $20s, and managed to steal $13,000 before being caught.
  5. The gang that duplicated thousands of Citibank ATM cards and stole $2 million, only being caught because of a traffic stop.
These may not be the biggest crimes in terms of size, but are interesting primarily for their hack value.