Comments for HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog) http://havemacwillblog.com Oh please, not another Mac bigot Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:34:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 Comment on Alien Sex Pills by Ten IT Words but You Don’t Know « About Internet Technology Words http://havemacwillblog.com/2007/03/01/alien-sex-pills/comment-page-1/#comment-4632 Ten IT Words but You Don’t Know « About Internet Technology Words Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:34:28 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/2007/03/01/alien-sex-pills/#comment-4632 [...] Googleganger: Egosurfing is the term often used to describe the act of googling for your own name. If, like me, you have a really uncommon name, then the results of an egosurf will return you references only to you. There will be no googlegangers in the mix. However, if I just surf on my surname, then the results are awash with googlegangers. A googleganger is someone that has the same name as you. Google, with its very limited grasp of semantics, is not smart enough to distinguish between the two of you, even if one of you happens to be guilty of numerous crime against humanity. What could be worse than having a truly despicable googleganger? Googleganger isn’t the only word Google has given rise to, there is alsoGoogleWhacking, a game that involves putting a word combination into Google in order to find a combination that gives just one search results. Successful GoogleWhacks are difficult to pull off unless, like me, you run a blog site and therefore decide to put up a GoogleWhack page. I did this several years ago by Googling “Alien sex pills”, discovering that Google gave me no results on that search and then writing this post: Alien sex pills. [...] [...] Googleganger: Egosurfing is the term often used to describe the act of googling for your own name. If, like me, you have a really uncommon name, then the results of an egosurf will return you references only to you. There will be no googlegangers in the mix. However, if I just surf on my surname, then the results are awash with googlegangers. A googleganger is someone that has the same name as you. Google, with its very limited grasp of semantics, is not smart enough to distinguish between the two of you, even if one of you happens to be guilty of numerous crime against humanity. What could be worse than having a truly despicable googleganger? Googleganger isn’t the only word Google has given rise to, there is alsoGoogleWhacking, a game that involves putting a word combination into Google in order to find a combination that gives just one search results. Successful GoogleWhacks are difficult to pull off unless, like me, you run a blog site and therefore decide to put up a GoogleWhack page. I did this several years ago by Googling “Alien sex pills”, discovering that Google gave me no results on that search and then writing this post: Alien sex pills. [...]

]]> Comment on Why Do I Get Chinese Spam? by manny k. http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/04/01/why-do-i-get-chinese-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-4630 manny k. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:30:28 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/04/01/why-do-i-get-chinese-spam/#comment-4630 I installed Yahoo Tool Bar powered by Mozilla Firefox and now all advertising on right side of page and headers are in Chinese. Can you advise please. I installed Yahoo Tool Bar powered by Mozilla Firefox and now all advertising on right side of page and headers are in Chinese.
Can you advise please.

]]> Comment on Bizarre Browser Advice: Abandon Internet Explorer! by tracyanne http://havemacwillblog.com/2010/01/18/bizarre-browser-advice-abandon-internet-explorer/comment-page-1/#comment-4629 tracyanne Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:20:11 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/?p=5500#comment-4629 Ok so now you've told me the lie. Ok so now you’ve told me the lie.

]]> Comment on Falling Transaction Costs: The Force of Disruption! by What is Metcalfe's Law? | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog) http://havemacwillblog.com/2007/11/15/falling-transaction-costs-the-force-of-disruption/comment-page-1/#comment-4628 What is Metcalfe's Law? | HaveMacWillBlog (aka Robin Bloor’s Blog) Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:02:45 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/2007/11/15/falling-transaction-costs-the-force-of-disruption/#comment-4628 [...] the Internet made on-line auctions possible, we should not forget the fact that the low transaction cost was also a factor in this. If the cost had been high the “network magic” would still [...] [...] the Internet made on-line auctions possible, we should not forget the fact that the low transaction cost was also a factor in this. If the cost had been high the “network magic” would still [...]

]]> Comment on Why Do I Get Chinese Spam? by Damián Pérez http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/04/01/why-do-i-get-chinese-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-4627 Damián Pérez Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:46:11 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/04/01/why-do-i-get-chinese-spam/#comment-4627 I just googled 'weird chinese spam' for the same reason that the other guy above me, and came across your site. Just like you, I was getting tons of annoying Chinese emails on a daily basis on my gmail account, some of them referred by a certain "daemon" claiming about some failed delivery of a message that I actually never sent (I don't speak Chinese, I could have never sent those messages). Anyway, by the end of the day I would always send all the messages to the spam folder, but the they would inevitably keep coming right onto my account the day after. Until one day, when I was going to sign in, google said they suspected of strange activity going on in my gmail account and I should change the password (I know, what the shit??) So yea, I had to wait 24 hours, then I just changed the password, and that was it, I never got one single damn Chinese spam email anymore. Oh and one more thing, I recall starting getting the chinese spam when I added this one contact on my gmail friends, so I guess this whole spam thing must be like an internet virus that is being spread through the gmail contacts lists. I just googled ‘weird chinese spam’ for the same reason that the other guy above me, and came across your site. Just like you, I was getting tons of annoying Chinese emails on a daily basis on my gmail account, some of them referred by a certain “daemon” claiming about some failed delivery of a message that I actually never sent (I don’t speak Chinese, I could have never sent those messages). Anyway, by the end of the day I would always send all the messages to the spam folder, but the they would inevitably keep coming right onto my account the day after.
Until one day, when I was going to sign in, google said they suspected of strange activity going on in my gmail account and I should change the password (I know, what the shit??) So yea, I had to wait 24 hours, then I just changed the password, and that was it, I never got one single damn Chinese spam email anymore.

Oh and one more thing, I recall starting getting the chinese spam when I added this one contact on my gmail friends, so I guess this whole spam thing must be like an internet virus that is being spread through the gmail contacts lists.

]]> Comment on Microsoft: The Empire Strikes Back by Bloor Robin http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-4625 Bloor Robin Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:10:31 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/?p=5476#comment-4625 What's now becoming clear is the the tablet will be Apple's entry into the cloud.... What’s now becoming clear is the the tablet will be Apple’s entry into the cloud….

]]> Comment on The Sunset of AV Technology. Good for Windows 7! by Bloor Robin http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/11/06/the-sunset-of-av-technology-good-for-windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-4624 Bloor Robin Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:08:38 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/?p=5477#comment-4624 Problem for the hackers on the Mac is that it has no hacking ecosystem. that takes a while to build. Problem for the hackers on the Mac is that it has no hacking ecosystem. that takes a while to build.

]]> Comment on Has Linux Finally Broken Through? by Bloor Robin http://havemacwillblog.com/2008/01/15/has-linux-finally-broken-through/comment-page-1/#comment-4623 Bloor Robin Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:07:49 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/2008/01/15/has-linux-finally-broken-through/#comment-4623 Microsoft has no intention of defeating all piracy... Microsoft has no intention of defeating all piracy…

]]> Comment on 10 Reasons Why Twitter Sucks by Anon http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/06/02/10-reasons-why-twitter-sucks/comment-page-1/#comment-4622 Anon Sun, 20 Dec 2009 06:04:15 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/?p=5108#comment-4622 I've been using Twitter about 9 months and agree with everything you said except that's it's useful. It staright-up sucks. No redeeming quality at all. I’ve been using Twitter about 9 months and agree with everything you said except that’s it’s useful. It staright-up sucks. No redeeming quality at all.

]]> Comment on What is Cloud Computing? 10 Defining Points by A Comment on 10 Defining Points for Cloud Computing | Lustratus REPAMA http://havemacwillblog.com/2009/02/22/what-is-cloud-computing-10-defining-points/comment-page-1/#comment-4621 A Comment on 10 Defining Points for Cloud Computing | Lustratus REPAMA Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:12:48 +0000 http://havemacwillblog.com/?p=4171#comment-4621 [...] his 10 Defining Points for Cloud Computing blog entry is here. I tried to post a comment but as it appears that it’s still awaiting moderation, I thought [...] [...] his 10 Defining Points for Cloud Computing blog entry is here. I tried to post a comment but as it appears that it’s still awaiting moderation, I thought [...]

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