Guilt by [non-]Association
There goes the “neighborhood”. Going into the past weekend, one of our product sites had a problem in which accessing the page caused a very scary (and completely incorrect) “Reported Attack Site!”...
View Article15 Years of SophSoft.com
We have had a web presence for a decade and a half. On November 14, 1995, our original registration of the sophsoft.com domain was approved. Back in those days, our online activity was conducted via...
View ArticleNetwork Explosion
Wired router spontaneously bursts into flames. Well, that is not entirely true. There was, in fact, not even any smoke, but one of our wired routers got extremely hot and failed in a worse way....
View ArticleStop SOPA (and PIPA)
SophSoft, Incorporated opposes SOPA legislation. You may have noticed that today several sites have “gone black” to various degrees. You need look no further than the main page of Google (on January...
View ArticleReminder: comp.sys.ibm.pc. games.announce
Some game marketing is still essentially free. If you are interested in marketing games, you can post announcements to the Usenet newsgroup, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.announce, a group for which I am the...
View ArticleThe downside of VOIP
Or, Why you should probably avoid Comcast. Last Friday, our cable television went out. Not like ‘some services are missing‘ out, but like ‘somebody just sliced a cable‘ out. There was static on all of...
View ArticleA Tale of a Good Anti-spam Tool
Spam, spam, go away… You are not welcome ANY day. My approach to my primary email address, from the very start (more than 13.5 years ago) was that potential clients and customers should be able to...
View ArticleHave you joined SpamBook yet?
A barrage of Facebook spams sets off a rant. Last Friday, at 4:38pm, I received an email from Facebook entitled, “Reminder: 5 of your friends invited you to join Facebook…” Fine. Some people collect...
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