This seems like a rather insecure way to remotely control your PC. Afterall, anyone can send emails to your gmail account with “keywords”.
Unless you can use long, randomly-generated, sets of characters. Even then, if you really have a need to control your PC remotely, learn to use a VNC program.
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The abuse site is back, sort of. I have a copy from back around the 1st of September loaded right now, entries after that are around but I’m going to have to reinstall MT and rebuild everything so a lot of stuff doesn’t actually work. I won’t post anything there yet, so hopefully if anyone’s…
I’m trying to come up with a creative use for the acronym WMF, but they all wind up something that wouldn’t be exactly G-rated. It’s that MF at the end, it’s too easy… Anyway, we were full on trying to get things secured against the WMF exploit in the office today. Our network folks threw…
I’m sure by now most of my readers have seen warning after warning about how phishers and hackers are taking advantage of our current situation. As more people find themselves working in odd situations, and with unfamiliar tools, they’re trying to get in and get us to let down our guard just a little bit….
Every poor manager I’ve ever dealt with has been a poor communicator. Almost every shortcoming or problem I’ve seen people have with a manager or coworker could be filed under a problem with communication. It’s THE thing in the workplace. Ideas, expectations, priorities, and everything else in the workplace come down to the ability to communicate. If you cannot communicate clearly, you are lost, and the people who work for you or lost.
Yet how many organizations promote the top performer or their most senior individual contributor without ever considering whether they are good communicators? And how many prioritize teaching them how to communicate as managers?
Alex Scoble is using my last post as an example of what he thinks will be a growing problem with wireless gadgets, overcrowded airwaves. If my experience is at all common, I’d say it’s something to be concerned about. I don’t have that many wireless devices in my house going at once. At most a…
I’ve been having on and off problems connecting to Yahoo using Trillian, looks like maybe Yahoo is playing games with trillian users now. I’ve had to switch to different servers twice in the last 3 days, and I’m not holding out much hope that this is going to stop. There’s more in the trillian forums…