Rants on: Computers
Keith's Rants
Rants about computers and computing, including software and hardware.
- Badda-Bing! Or Just Bad?
How Great Is the "New" Decision Engine from Microsoft?
September 30, 2010
- Voilating the Public Trust
What Does the City of Bozeman, MT Need to Do to Regain the Public Trust
July 14, 2009
- Microsoft Genuine Advantage
Microsoft Not Only Doesn't Respect the Government, They Don't Respect Their Customers
April 13, 2008
- Another Recommended Rewrite
Yahoo!'s Automated Support Reply Is Not in Synch with Their Business Practices
February 24, 2008
- Opt-In vs. Opt-Out
You'd Think the Debate Over Whether or Not to Spam Would Be Over By Now
September 19, 2007
- Internet Explorer Sucks
And Micorsoft Knows It, but Won't Fix It
May 15, 2007
- Email Manners
What Ever Happened to Being Polite in the Professional World?
May 7, 2007
- Reporting Spam
Doing Your Part to Control Spam
January 10, 2007
- The Abuse@ Email Address
Possibly the Most Important Part of Setting Up a Mail Server
January 7, 2007
- Another Recommended Rewrite
What Singnet.com.sg's Abuse Auto-Response Really Means
September 11, 2006
- Microsoft Outlook
More Sloppy Software from the Operating System Monopoly
August 14, 2006
- Internet Explorer
More Evidence That IE Isn't Ready for Release as a Web Browser
July 26, 2006
- A Recommended Rewrite
AT&T Internet Services Security Auto-Response
June 20, 2006
- Internet Domains Names
Making the Online World More Difficult in the Name of Making It Easier
February 24, 2005
- Standards and Marketing
Consistently Crappy Software from Microsoft and Its Impact on the Internet
December 27, 2004
- Microsoft
Bill Gates Trying (Again) to Console Computer Users by Lying to Them
October 22, 2004
- Internet Marketing Stupidities
It's Amazing the Number of Internet Marketers Who Don't Know Much About Internet Marketing
October 2, 2004
- Non-Secure Content on Secure Web Pages
An Internet Security Risk that Browsers Should Always Warn Users About
September 3, 2004
- Spam Crap
Isn't the YOU-CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 great?
August 24, 2004
- Spam Filtering
Why Email Filtering Is Part of the Spam Problem, Not Part of the Solution
July 8, 2004
- Don't You Hate It When...
Microsoft Demonstrates Their Stupidity to Confuse Computer Users
May 10, 2004
- Microsoft
More on Bill Gates Deliberately Misleading or Lying to Computer Users
May 7, 2004
- Microsoft
Bill Gates Trying to Console Computer Users by Deliberately Misleading Them and Lying to Them
March 4, 2004
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Computers Rants (and Other Neat Stuff) Links (in alphabetical order)
Happy spamiversary! Spam reaches 30
If only we could turn back the clocks of time when 393 emails was considered SPAM. You have to love Bill Gates quote which promises in 2004 that the world would be spam-free by 2006, well that's a prophecy that certainly didn't come true...
MS in Peruvian open-source nightmare
There's a letter circulating, purportedly from Peruvian Congressman David Villanueva Nuñez to Microsoft Peru, which cuts the heart out of Redmond's chief 'panic points' to chill those considering open-source migration.
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