Archive for April, 2006

Image of the Day: Underground Submarine Base

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Cold-War Era Russian Underground Submarine Base

The architecture website Archibase.net has a great series of photographs from an abandoned underground nuclear submarine base in Balaklava, Russia.

McAfee’s Spyware Quiz Fails Most Users

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Aviran’s Place has an entry up talking about the results of a spyware quiz created by antivirus maker McAfee.

According to the results of the quiz, nearly 65% of all quiz takers would have been infected by spyware and adware had the tests been real.  And even those who did better at correctly identifying potential spyware were still likely to visit a potentially dangerous website within thirty days.

Take the SiteAdvisor Spyware Quiz yourself and see how well you’d fare.  And don’t forget to look into an antispyware program such as Webroot’s Spysweeper.

Image of the Day: Basset Rock

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Sadie Mae stands tall on her rock

Sadie at six weeks old.

Image of the Day: Microsoft Mac Minis

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Rack of 150 Mac Minis used in the Microsoft Mac Testing Lab

David Weiss’s blog has a great photo tour of the Microsoft Mac Lab, where the company can test their products on a wide range of old and current Apple hardware.

The photo above is of 150 Mac minis that are controlled through Apple Remote Desktop workstations.

Video of the Day: Frozen Tunnel Traffic Camera

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Russian Bus Out of Control in Underground Tunnel

This video shows what happens when an underground tunnel that lies beneath a river in Russia experiences sub-zero winter temperatures.

XP “Missing HAL.DLL” and “Invalid Boot.ini” Fix

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

InformationWeek has an excellent how-to article on Windows XP’s rebuild command and how you can use it to fix a number of commonly show-stopping XP problems that most people usually just reformat their machine over.

Image of the Day: Sadie Mae - Week Five

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Sadie Mae - Week Four

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