I practice careful system administration of our Windows computers instead of relying on anti-virus software, but as the subject came up recently in a mailing list, I collected a few comparative reviews of anti-virus software:
PC World Protect Your PC, July 2002
PC Magazine Personal Antivirus Software, June 2002
CNET Antivirus Software Reviews
About.com Top 5 Antivirus Software for [...]
Charles pointed out Phoenix to me, a Mozilla branch that’s supposed to be a “lean and fast browser that doesn’t skimp on features”. Looks pretty nice.
A new White Rose Society posts an audio segment from Mike Malloy’s “Resistance Radio”, comparing Carl Rove’s speeches for George W. Bush to George Orwell’s 1984: http://www.whiterosesociety.org/. If the link on that page doesn’t work, you can try a direct link: http://homepage.mac.com/benburch/GWBand1984.mp3 (2Mb, 17 min).
Bush, of course, has been speaking in 1984 for a [...]
Recommended by Jeff Ubois: Jeff Jarvis’ notes on the Yale Revenge of the Blog conference. Some interesting stuff on why blogs are important.
From Whoosh: Business in the Fast Lane,Tom McGehee on what makes a company suck or rock:
Compliance Companies
Creation Companies
Policy driven
Principle driven
Rule based
Relationship based
Conducts training
Allows for structured and unstructured learning
Forced organization
Self-organizing
Reactive
Proactive
Good of organization over good of individual
Good of organization through good of individuals
Measures activity
Measures outcome
Ordered
Chaotic
Closed system
Open system
Patterned
Emergent
Internal focus
External focus
Risk avoidance
Opportunity creation
Confuses models with reality
Understands modeling
Tries to re-create [...]
Google is an interface to the structure of the web.
Google orders its results based on the structure of the web, which is generated as people create titles and links that help make their little locality of the web make sense. Google does the smart thing, and leverages that human intelligence to help its users [...]
The WELL’s Inkwell.vue is hosting a two-week discussion with Howard Rheingold about Smart Mobs.
Click the “see all responses” link to start at the beginning; non-members can email questions and conversational contributions to the Inkwell.vue hosts.
The US and Britain have been attacking Iraqi installations after Iraqi air defenses fire on US and British aircraft patrolling “no-fly” zones over Iraq. Iraq says civilian installations have been hit; the US and Britain say only military installations have been attacked.
The no-fly zones were created for “humanitarian” reasons by the US, Britan and [...]
Received my Vonage VOIP adapter today and have spent about 2 hours on various phone calls so far, including 15 minutes with David Isenberg, who’s in Tokyo right now.. :)
Works great so far — I’m very pleased. I’ll post more reactions in a few days, after I’ve used it more.
Adina writes about similarities between the Talmud and hypertext and blogs: “It’s not that the Rabbis didn’t know how to write neat, logical, linear exposition. The classic rabbinic period was contemporaneous with the Hellenized civilization of the ancient world; they had the models of Greek thinking all around them, and they borrowed when it suited [...]