Techy-ish

Salutations!

First off, the flu sucks. And to the post...

I'm a bit of a techy when it comes to tech, and I lately had a bit of a brush with somebody high up in my school. It's all been resolved now but the fact is that it was a bit of a pain in the ass. I had been accused of my Windows Media Player 12 (the one that comes with Windows 7) had been trying to access files within the school, and this particular person that was high up did not have the right education in computers (I'll be blogging about the lack of computer education later) to be commenting on this problem especially since she was saying that it was "acting" like Limewire within the school (if somebody can get WMP to "act" like Limewire then please inform me cause I've never heard of that in my life). What was actually happening is that within Windows 7 (and Vista actually) it was sending out a signal within the schools network to all the computers that had their computers to allow media to be received through their computers). So everytime I would boot up my computer they would get a message saying "Ross would like to share his media library with you". This was only people accepting these invites would get them. You can draw your own conclusion on whether I was in the wrong or she was for having her settings set to allow invites like that, within a school that just went through an attack crashing the entire network.

But what I was annoyed me most was when I asked somebody to take a screenshot of the problem so I could actually fix it, they just gave me a blank look as to say "Screenshot, what's that?" so I gave up and one of my teachers who gave me some advice on what to do with my computer and also spoke with the one high up so that's how it was resolved.

I had also noted something else to do with network security, while reading BBC News Technology I came across this post, it's a report about something to do with Twitter being used in US courts "preventing the course of justice". What caught my eye when I opened up the link was the picture on the right:



That browser that it's showing is Internet Explorer (IE) 6 which is the one that came with Windows XP. Now the latest version out is IE 8 which came out of beta earlier this week. Now you would think that such a big news corporation would use an image that showed the latest, safest browser out there, instead it shows the oldest IE browser available for Windows XP. BBC News Technology really isn't a good site to keep up to date with technology, use something like Engadget, Gizmodo or Gadgeteer for reviews on technology. BBC News Technology gives a dulled down version of the stories, and most of the stories are 3-4 days old.

Anyways, just felt I thought I'd share my tech annoyances :)

Rossie & Jossie

PS. The reason I haven't being blogging lately is cause I have the flu, and when I'm coming home from school, I'm falling to sleep instead of blogging :p.

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