My 15 minutes of fame

[classicsoftware]

Get'em while their hot....

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/ (http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/columnists/jeff_gelles/11839077.htm).

I was interviewed and photographed for an article about spyware in the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was a very interesting experience....

[pop pop]

Very nice. You don't quite look like I envisioned. Great pic they did.

[classicsoftware]

Have you ever written and spoken to someone and when you finally meet them or see a picture of them, they look exactly as you imagined?

[pop pop]

I guess I have to say, touche.

I also have to say that on the phone you sounded like a person in the field(s) you are in. In the newspaper pic, you look more like a jazz musician. :p

One thing really, really bugs me though...you, YOU are holding a DELL!!!!!!

[classicsoftware]

I was hoping nobody around here would notice that. It was the photographers not mine........

[Budfred]

They won't let us see the article unless we register, so I won't get to see your words of wisdom... :D

Congrats on the fame!! :cool:

[PrntRhd]

I was going to mention the registration issue, of course you could always make one up from this list: (from mjc a while back)
Ebch.com Ebdv.com Ebdw.com Ebjp.com Ebkn.com
Ebky.com Eblv.com Ebvr.com Ecwz.com Ecyb.com
Eduy.com Eeev.com Ibmx.com Icwb.com Icwo.com
Icwp.com Iddh.com Idhh.com Ifiz.com Iguu.com
Lop.com Samz.com Saoe.com Sbjr.com Sbnl.com
Sbnt.com Sbvr.com Scbm.com Sckr.com Scrk.com
Sdry.com Seld.com Sfux.com Sipo.com Smds.com
Srib.com Srox.com Srsf.com Ssaw.com Ssby.com
Surj.com Tbvg.com Tdak.com Tdko.com Tdmy.com
Tefs.com Tfil.com Thko.com Tjar.com Tjaw.com
Tjdo.com Tjem.com Tjgo.com Torc.com Wbkb.com
Wfix.com Wflu.com

(So let lop.com get the spam instead of you)

Only two quotes from the long interview with you, and no recommendations on how to protect your PC?
:rolleyes: :D

[Paleo Pete]

Cool, glad you got to do the interview, always interesting to do something like that. I did a couple of radio interviews pertaining to computers about 2 1/2 years ago or a bit more, that was also very interesting, and our high school jazz band was on TV back in...well, a long time ago...I played sax. Some of the questions on the radio interviews were about spyware, viruses and the like. Pretty nerve wracking actually, every word is going out on the air as you say it, you have to be clear and concise and no such thing as editing that bad line out before it goes to press...so you have to make sure your answers are on target the first time, no second chances. Fortunately I didn't get embarrassed.

[pentachris]

Hey, CS, you're not nearly as ugly as I imagined! :D

Nice write up; good for you!

And about the whole registration thing, don't forget bugmenot.com.

[gracious]

bugmenot.com
Can you please explain what these are and how to use them, something new for me to learn!!!

[pop pop]

Bugmenot is a FireFox extension. A really handy one. If you go to a news type site--newspaper, some magazines, etc--they often require you to "register" and get a password. "Register" means giving them your email and other personal info that you might not want to, especially if you're only going to visit once or twice.

Bugmenot maintains a database of valid userIDs for these sites and you use one of those rather than establishing yours. It's all legal and above board. People actually volunteer their userIDs for others to use.

Go to the ExtensionsMirror here (http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=566) and install Bugmenot. The site is safe. Close FireFox and reopen. Bugmenot will be enabled. Now when you go to that newspaper site and the "Register" fields are staring you in the face, right click and hold on your mouse. A context menu will pop-up. Select Bugmenot and it will fill in the form with what should be a valid log-in. If the first doesn't work (maybe expired), try another. Always works for me.

Enjoy ;)

[Fruss Tray Ted]

Bugmenot is a FireFox extension

Not so sure about that. I thought it worked on multi-platforms. AFAIK it is it's own program.

[pop pop]

FTT,

I defer...

However, it is listed as an extension on Mozilla.org and on the ExtensionsMirror, as well as listed as an extension under "Tools/Extensions" in FireFox.

[pentachris]

Before it was a Firefox extension, it was a website (www.bugmenot.com).

[gracious]

simply amazing!

[gracious]

OK now I am spooked! I have windows media v10, do I need to get rid of it? Will that help or am I already doomed? Holy macaroni batman!
I guess I need to dump my IE and get firefox, I am so conditioned by the microsoft junk that it sceersssssssss me.

[Celeride]

OK now I am spooked! I have windows media v10, do I need to get rid of it? Will that help or am I already doomed? Holy macaroni batman!
I guess I need to dump my IE and get firefox, I am so conditioned by the microsoft junk that it sceersssssssss me.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Firefox - once you get used to it, You will wonder how you could have ever stayed with IE for so long.

I've been using Firefox since November 2004, and can't believe I let my Microsoft conditioning last so long.

[Mark Miller]

I like firefox also, but it is not the next best thing since sliced bread, however it's a pretty cool browser and in my opinion you need some kind of ie shell or ie also.
By the way not the way I thought you looked either, but lookin good !!!
Mark

[classicsoftware]

I like firefox also, but it is not the next best thing since sliced bread, however it's a pretty cool browser and in my opinion you need some kind of ie shell or ie also.


Firefox is the best thing since sliced bread. It's all that and a bag of chips. I try hard to expose it to spyware and with Spywareblaster, Sygate and Firefox I do NOT have spyware on my system.


By the way not the way I thought you looked either, but lookin good !!!

I asked Pop-Pop this and I'll ask you as well:

Have you ever written and spoken to someone and when you finally meet them or see a picture of them, they look exactly as you imagined?

[Mark Miller]

Hey Classic,
Nope I never have had the visualization right either
I love firefox also [go back in the archives and see how I raved] but I have gotten to the point that it's just another tool.
By the way I don't look like what I think I look like.
I wonder how many people look they way they think they look
Sorry for getting off topic
Mark

[pop pop]

I just have to jump in on this one.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Miller
I like firefox also, but it is not the next best thing since sliced bread, however it's a pretty cool browser and in my opinion you need some kind of ie shell or ie also.


I've used a number of browsers--Windoze, Linux, and Unix-based...no MAC/Apple...Mosaic, the Original Netscape, IE, Mozilla, and FireFox. I have to admit I haven't used Opera. From where I'm sitting, FirFox is the best of the lot for all kinds of reasons.

you need some kind of ie shell or ie also.

Unless you can tell me otherwise, there are are only two reasons, well three, this might be true. The paramount one is WindozeUpdate and, for some really odd reason, the update engine for one or two essental applications (paradoxically, anti-virus/spyware). The second is for the sites you need to use that will only run under Internet Exploder (e.g., certain online virus scans). And the third is you can't amputate the beast anyway.

If my new build had an IE counter on it, you would find that it's only been used by me twice in the month since I first powered up. Once was to activate and register with the Dark Side, and the other was to download all patches. That's it. If I had the option not to instal IE in the first place, it would be a big fat zero.

[PrntRhd]

Mark and PopPop,
Check out this for tweaking Firefox:
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_1.html

[Mark Miller]

Thanks,
Putting it into fav and will look at it later.
Actually all I was trying to say is that both browzers are needed and in the real sceem of things both are just both tools.
Boy it's good to be back for these kind of discussions

[Steve]

I sometimes always agree but this time I sort of disagree but agree in a way. :rolleyes:

Hehe.. I agree with Mark. Firefox is just a tool. And I agree with CS. It's hard to get infected using FF but I have managed on several occasions, but I really had to try. It doesn't take me long to find CWS with IE but it doesn't seem to exist in FF. I was able to find Nimda the other day while using FF but I don't know if that is the fault of the browser or not.

And CS...Actually you look just like I pictured you. A little thinner but other than that... :)

[gracious]

:D :D Well I am an official firefox user :D :D

If I could only convince hubbie to switch, he doesn't want to lose all his stuff in Outlook Express...I didn't think there was a way to use outlook on firefox is there?

[PrntRhd]

gracious:
If I could only convince hubbie to switch, he doesn't want to lose all his stuff in Outlook Express...I didn't think there was a way to use outlook on firefox is there?
No, but you can migrate to Thunderbird, which is the Mozilla answer to OE.

[Paleo Pete]

Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/) is the mozilla email client, seems to work well and I know it will import email addresses, not sure about existing emails but it might be able to import them too. A least worth looking into, configuration is no more difficult than with OE and the look and layout are familiar "out of the box" and configurable till it hardly resembles OE any more at all...I've watched a couple of senior citezens pick it up in 10 minutes, after I took care of configuration. "Oh! I can do that..."

[Cavalier90]

The downside is Thunderbird cannot access Hotmail accounts. For reasons best left to history, I set up my website contact address in Hotmail so need to keep downloading from there. Outlook allows free access to Hotmail, or it did when I set up the link (MS now charge for this privilege). Occassionally MS come up with the goods. A good AV and firewall stop any nasties attacking Outlook.

[classicsoftware]

You can use Outlook with FireFox. You can also use Mozilla Thunderbird. Safer than outlook and you can import all of your e-mail and address book from outlook into Thunderbird.

[classicsoftware]

gracious:

No, but you can migrate to Thunderbird, which is the Mozilla answer to OE.

Firefox has a mail-toolbar which will (I am pretty sure) open your default e-mail program weather it is Outlook, Outlook Express or T-Bird

[Fruss Tray Ted]

Firefox is just a browser like IE. You can continue to use Outlook or Outlook Express as email clients if you wish. Thunderbird is the Mozilla/FF version of email program.

[Mark Miller]

I use outlook express with firefox.
One is a browzer and the other a mail program.
You could download the whole suite from Mozilla but you don't "have to".

[Dangerous]

Firefox is great and everything, but check out my minor gripe:

I'm a big fan of the Ctrl + Enter shortcut to stick www. and .com onto addresses I type in the address bar, I also use a lot of .co.uk addresses - NetCaptor (based on IE) allows me to configure Ctrl + Enter, Shift + Enter etc to put whatever domain extension on I like... Firefox doesn't let me do that and for some reason it upsets me... anyone know of a tweak?

PS: bugmenot definitely is great... started using spamgourmet.com (http://www.spamgourmet.com) a bit recently, very useful also - anyone else use this?
D

[Paleo Pete]

[Ctrl]+[Enter]

I just tried that, using Firefox (but on a Linux machine, not Windows), and it put www in front of and .com behind 5 or 6 different keywords. And went to the sites. That's the first time I've run across that keyboard shortcut - just goes to show you never know everything - but it's working perfect for me. Also tried it in another browser, Konqueror, and that browser interprets it as a search, goes to Google with the site I wanted as a keyword. For example, type "pcguide" and [Ctrl]+[Enter] runs a google search for that keyword. :eek:

[gracious]

I just tried it ....say....pretty nifty!!! I love this site, I walk away feeling like a master of the universe....wait...that's a guy thing isn't it, oh well :D

I also tried with pcguide and it took me right to pcguide. way kewl :p

(Won't tell hubbie that it won't work for Ebay though ) :D

[yolagp]

Wow! I just tried bugmenot and it's amazing!!! By the way, Classicsoftware, you look good! ;) And your interview is very interesting, Congratulations!

[Dangerous]

That's the first time I've run across that keyboard shortcut - just goes to show you never know everything - but it's working perfect for me.

Hiya Paleo,

Apologies for digging up an old thread! The [Ctrl] + [Enter] shortcut is superb - it works fine for me also, but my point is that on NetCaptor I can type [Shift] + [Enter] and the browser appends "www." and ".co.uk" to the URL I type. This is useful for me over here in the UK. :)

I was wondering, does anyone know of a Firefox extension which adds this behaviour - or let's you define your own shortcuts? (NetCaptor refers to this as "Domain Completion")

Thanks!
Dave