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Comment on How I managed to donate to OpenStreetMap by Harry Wood

Harry Wood — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:42:36 +0000

Geez. Maybe you should’ve just installed ubuntu on the machine itself to blow away all the malware …and windows

Thanks for the donation, and all the effort it involved! We’re getting towards two-thirds of the target amount now.

Good travels!

Comment on How difficult can Denplan make it for customers to protect their personal information? by Robaire McCoy

Robaire McCoy — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:40:55 +0000

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Comment on SMS 419 scams by Em

Em — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 11:33:26 +0000

Interesting stuff. I wonder how illegal it is as companies must supply a way for people to ‘unsubscribe’ from spam email and sms. I guess that if it doesn’t originate from the UK then we have no recourse…

Comment on Free antivirus software for Windows by UK 2011 Spring Travellers Meeting, Ripley, Derbyshire - Horizons Unlimited

UK 2011 Spring Travellers Meeting, Ripley, Derbyshire - Horizons Unlimited — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:23:33 +0000

[...] People asked about free antivirus software – please see http://thinkingspaces.org/2011/01/14…e-for-windows/ for a list. The UK2India trip: [...]

Comment on Windows Explorer: How NOT to resolve conflicts by apapadop

apapadop — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:13:22 +0000

I'm probably just a stupid user who uses a lot of systems and has better things to do that decipher the latest UI tricks. Having said that, I don't see your kind of thinking as leading to more secure or usable systems. See also Peter Gutmann's "Security Usability Fundamentals" (page 1) for a discussion on blaming stupid users for design failures.

Comment on Windows Explorer: How NOT to resolve conflicts by tomy.split

tomy.split — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 22:00:58 +0000

3 minutes?!?
you’re slow or what?

Comment on Windows Explorer: How NOT to resolve conflicts by dtb

dtb — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:05:38 +0000

At least with the new Windows 7 interface, it will prompt you and let you deal with conflicts individually, without cancelling your entire copy or move job, as is the case under XP. Except for the third option about keeping both copies, I had no problems the first time I saw the new interface. Different strokes for Different folks I suppose.

Regards

Comment on Don’t worry, it’s as secure as Chip and PIN! by Em

Em — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:25:39 +0000

Hey. Great article – I read your blog every now and then. BTW receipts aren’t mandatory in the UK like they are in Greece.

Comment on Remove junk, win disk space, better privacy by teknophilia

teknophilia — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:31:31 +0000

I’ve been using CCleaner for quite some time and am very happy with it. I also use CCleaner enhancer (http://thewebatom.net/programs/ccleaner-enhancer/) which adds some more program definitions to CCleaner (and was featured on Lifehacker).

Comment on Remove junk, win disk space, better privacy by Remove junk, win disk space, better privacy (via usability | security | freedom) | Chicago Mac/PC Support

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:18:24 +0000

[...] A didactic run of the simple (yet mighty) CCleaner on a colleague's laptop: 2,1GB of disk space reclaimed: Thousands of cookies (most of them used to track your online behaviour) deleted: Note to antivirus administrators: Please keep SEP under control, as it tends to aggregate a lot of junk: This is not a thorough clean – there is a lot more junk and privacy-compromising stuff on this machine, but a CCleaner run is a dead-easy first step. … Read More [...]