April 8th, 2012
Rich Mogull, in Macworld: As Mikko Hypponen, Chief Researcher at F-Secure pointed out via Twitter, if there are roughly 45 million Macs out there, Flashback would now have infected more than 1 percent of them, making Flashback roughly as common for Mac as Conficker was for Windows. Flashback appears to be the most widespread Mac [...]
March 26th, 2012
Wow, triggers is a popular subject! I’m not doing a regular post because I’ve been working hard researching, updating the page and getting the thing to display correctly on the iPad. So right now the trigger page mostly displays on iPads and the poll works but the bottom of the trigger table is being cut [...]
January 21st, 2012
I left the new PFRE blog template up overnight on Friday night and got some negative feedback. So I thought I’d do a reader poll this weekend to get a broader input. Update 1/22 8:00 PM Pacific: On Sunday (1/22) evening I took down the Poll that was up for most of the weekend because [...]
January 17th, 2012
Today I’m breaking from my normal policy of not posting about political issues. Opposing the Protect IP/SOPA bills is just too important to let slide. Many sites in the US today (Wed 1/18) are completely blacked out in an expression of protest against Protect IP/SOPA bills that are very close to being passed in the [...]
December 29th, 2011
This is a special week between holidays where, there’s time to think about what happened last year and how you are going to try to do it better next year. Looking Back I am continually amazed at how much I enjoy doing this blog. I enjoy it more every year and 2011 is no exception. [...]
December 10th, 2011
Many years ago there used to be a bumper sticker they sold here on Maui that read “Ho-hum, another shitty day in Paradise“. Last night we arrived on Maui for a little sun break. About this time of year in the Northwest you tend to forget what the sun and warmth from it feels like. [...]
November 15th, 2011
Yesterday I added a little introduction video to the PFRE blog (right up there in the center below the header image) because I feel like I should be eating my own dog food in the area of video. Please be easy on me, I did a lot of practicing, a lot of takes and as [...]
October 5th, 2011
As someone who has owned and loved almost every product that Steve Jobs championed from the Apple II, the first Macintosh, the first Apple Laser Printer, the Apple’s first Apple laptop, MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, I’m going to miss Steve’s passion for design and flare for marketing. Steve is an example of [...]
August 21st, 2011
Spending the rest of the month of August here at Lake Tahoe soaking up some rays and fresh mountain air. We are renting this awesome lake front property for our family reunion. When I arrived Friday here, I decided to see what property here on the lake is going for so I brought up my [...]
