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1. Some poor sap gets a virus like “MyDoom”
2. The nasty virus send email to a random contact, from a different random contact.
   For instance, I got a virus today “to” me from “elizabeth”, sent from an IP belonging to Toshiba America. It was clearly not really from Liz…
3. Half clever virus scanner detects the virus and stops it.
4. Half clever virus scanner notifies the bogus “sender” (me, in this case) that I have sent a virus.
5. If this scanner is very poorly implemented, it will propagate the virus by “returning” the mail to me, the spoofed fake “sender.”
6. Mail admin of half (or less) clever mail scanner gets a warm, fuzzy feeling of having done good by notifying me of my anti-social viral condition.
7. I just laugh and tell them not to send me any more dumb notices. Unless they sent me a virus, in which case I tell them they’re idiots.

“From each according to his hotspots, to each according to her feeds…”

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• Digging out the iMac takeapart from the web
• reviewing how to get the beastie apart enough to change the CMOS battery.
• Taking a trip to Radio Shack.
• Turning the screws (Lefty Loosey, Righty Tighty).
• Making a trivial battery replacement.
• Refolding the map.
• Lying on the floor shaking the case over my head trying to dislodge a dropped heat shield screw.
• Answering the phone.
  

  “Tell him I’ll get the mail server back up soon but I’ve been unexpectedly delayed by having to answer the phone.”

• Rebooting the iMac
• Resetting the clock
• Closing Up the server closet

Dear Apple, I wanted to write to comment on your changes from iTools to .Mac. I find that it does not provide a valuable service to me that is worth the price you are asking for it. That’s fine, iTools is not a service in which I was heavily invested. If I had been, the switch might have been worth the money. I have some suggestions as to things you can do to lessen the alienation and resentment you’re hearing about from all the customers who are unhappy that you are no longer providing iTools. 1: Apologize. “We didn’t know you loved our services so much, and we’ve come up with ways to help you as we roll out new services.” 2: Provide a generic iDisk that connects to the read-only ‘software’ folder. The ‘software’ folder was the only reason I ever used iDisk. 3: Provide, for free, mail forwarding for existing mac.com mail clients. Heck, just offering it as a $10/year option would give me a reasonable value proposition. 4: Include a year of the service (or of some part of the service, like the email part) with OS 10.2 Regards, Michael Croft

Links to follow after I write the entries…
• The World Turned Upside-Down : Why most people who buy computers go about it backwards
• Confession of a Mac Geek: Why I am a Macintosh User
• Getting it Right: Why my father is a Macintosh User

“The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse.’ There is no evidence that people want to use these things.” (John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984. )

“The only thing missing from the new Apple iBook is the Barbie logo,” he writes. “You expect to see lipstick, rouge, and a tray of eye shadow inside when you open it up. You don’t expect to see a 12-inch LCD; you expect to see a 12-inch mirror. No male in his right mind will be seen in public with this notebook.” John Dvorak in PC Mag as quoted by salon

“Dvorak wrote a piece about the 1998 [January MacWorld] show. Therein he said, and I quote, ‘Folks, the Mac platform is through — totally — and this may be the last, if not the next to last, Mac show.’” —Andy Inhatko on Dvorak

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.—Wilde

• Round Two is supposed to include celebrities.
• The Register calls Damon a Manson Family cultist. Damon is amused.
• Damon Wright is blogging his switching experiences.
• Aaron Adams (the Lan Admin) posted a web page with his story

“The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse.’ There is no evidence that people want to use these things.” (John C. Dvorak, SF Examiner, Feb. 1984. ) “The only thing missing from the new Apple iBook is the Barbie logo,” he writes. “You expect to see lipstick, rouge, and a tray of eye shadow inside when you open it up. You don’t expect to see a 12-inch LCD; you expect to see a 12-inch mirror. No male in his right mind will be seen in public with this notebook.” John Dvorak in PC Mag as quoted by Salon “Dvorak wrote a piece about the 1998 [January MacWorld] show. Therein he said, and I quote, ‘Folks, the Mac platform is through — totally — and this may be the last, if not the next to last, Mac show.’” —Andy Inhatko on Dvorak

I expect that one thing spam will accelerate is the devolution of email out of the hands of ISP’s and into the hands of relatively small user collections such as families. You cannot ever hope to implement really good spam filtering at the ISP level because once you get past a few hundred users from the general public, the diversity of that community makes for a broad range of mail that people really want to get through. This makes SIMS all the more interesting as a mail server because it is ideally suited for microservers. On hardware that is otherwise laughable by today’s standards, you can set up a server for a dozen users that almost never stops working and doesn’t require a multidisciplinary expert to administer. — Bill Cole

“Visio 2002 - When you finally get your date back to your flat you need to make sure everything is in place for the perfect romantic evening. So use Microsoft’s diagramming and graphics tools to plot the position of your stereo to give the perfect mood music and the drinks cabinet to serve the all important nightcap.”