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?
Labels:
annoyances,
windows
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:
- 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.
- An Eastern European website selling stolen identities that turns out to be a sting operation.
- The guy who wrote a script to open 60,000 new brokerage accounts to harvest the few pennies they deposit to verify bank accounts.
- 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.
- 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.
Labels:
crime
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