Chinese Find Gold in New Places
Here’s a very interesting video from the web about Chinese Gold Farmers in MMORPG like World of Warcraft.
Here’s a very interesting video from the web about Chinese Gold Farmers in MMORPG like World of Warcraft.
Well it looks like Microsoft is taking further steps to curb piracy this time by using nagware.
M&C Tech: Microsoft is enhancing its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) test tool to detect PCs that are not using a properly licensed version of the Windows operating system via an update patch.Alerts will be sent directly to millions of users of pirate software in the United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand when they download Windows updates, Microsoft said.
The alerts read: ‘This copy of Windows is not genuine; you may be a victim of software counterfeiting’ and include a link to a web site explaining what people with pirated versions of Windows need to do.
The only way to stop the alerts from regularly appearing on the screen is to replace the pirated version with a genuine copy of Windows.
Is this a great business practice? Not really. Microsoft stands to lose more legitimate customers whose systems may unintentionally show as having pirated software than those with actual pirated software. Most likely pirates will simply not apply the specific patch or develop a way to stop the patch from communicating with Microsoft.
If you’re a blogger you may have noticed spammers have figured out a way around us blocking them by keyword, don’t use keywords.
Most of the new spam looks like a real comment until you look at the person commentings link or the links in the body of the comment. Almost all the time it points back at a spam site or a bulletin board that is actually redirecting to a spam site.
Nice trick. Unfortunately for you (and fortunately for us) you haven’t realized that all your links still have “nofollow” tags on them so the search engines ignore your links. Sorry. We still win.
Looks like Dave is ready for BloggerCon IV and it’s going to be in the Bay Area again which means I’ll be attending. Tentatively the date is scheduled for June 19th but may change. If you haven’t been to one I suggest going. It’s a lot of fun and very eye opening. Dane from www.business-opportunities.biz and I attended the one at Stanford and it was awesome.
Bloggercon.org: The goal of the conference is to bring together people who wish to talk about the art and science of blogging, podcasting, video, syndication, unconferences, and related topics. Contexts for discussion will include politics, academia, libraries, publishing, and… ?Every session will have a discussion leader and a topic, the goal is to share what we know, and create opportunities for innovation. The standards of previous BloggerCons will be practiced. No audience, speakers or panels. There will be one session on business models, which will be off-topic in every other session. (We’ve noted if this rule isn’t stated up front, some people like to discuss this topic in every session.)
The purpose of the conversation is to create community in areas of technical interest, and in areas of professional interest. This can be seen as a conference of librarians and a conference of political bloggers, and a place where the various interests can meet and inform each other. With increasing interest in the idea of unconferneces itself we will try to have some portion of the conference be about unconferences, if we can handle that much recursion.
So you jumped on the band wagon and got yourself a MySpace account. Now you want to customize it. Here’s a great tutorial that’ll walk you through the steps necessary to convert the default layout to your own awesome layout.
5thirtyone.com: The idea is to cover the entire default MySpace profile with your own custom page. While DIVs can be used to cover specific areas of the profile [while retaining much of the default page], this series will walk you through the steps necessary to cover the entire default profile
Mental note: when backing up data be sure to replace the old files with the new not the new files with the old.