Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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TiddlyWiki macros and plugins; New Zealand gets insane copyright law
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TiddlyWiki macros and plugins

Mark Gibbs By Mark Gibbs
Continuing with his exploration of TiddlyWiki wiki technology, Mark Gibbs looks at the system's macros and plugins that modify and extend the how and what the software can do. Read full story

Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist and columnist.

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Backspin: New Zealand gets insane copyright law
A law has just been passed in New Zealand that allows for alleged online copyright infringers to have their Internet access cut off before being proved guilty.

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IT's glass - full, empty or too big?
In times of economic chaos and budget cuts you need to check your perspective. You know the old saw: A pessimist sees the glass as half empty; the optimist sees it as half full. These are both wrong ways of looking at the problem. The realist's perspective, the right way, recognizes that when there's space above the contents the glass is simply too big.

Exploring TiddlyWiki
Mark Gibbs discusses some reader feedback on TiddlyWiki and then starts to break down the TiddlyWiki system. Will the excitement never end?

Fixing the privacy joke
The whole idea of privacy has become a joke. On one hand we have consumers who will give away their personal details to random Web sites (as well as to Mrs. Sikiratu Seki Adam, "a widow to Late Saheed Baba Adams") at the drop of a virtual hat, and on the other we have businesses losing personally identifiable information and transaction data with wild abandon … yes, I'm talking about you Heartland Payment Systems. (Heartland lost data on more than 100 million transactions although it is hardly alone — check out the data loss database at the Open Security Foundation).

Building a wiki with TiddlyWiki
Last week I started to review TiddlyWiki, an amazing personal wiki, and explained you can get started by downloading an empty version (a barebones copy of TiddlyWiki without content) from the TiddlyWiki download page.

TiddlyWiki is amazing, fantastic!
Every now and then you stumble across a truly great idea and, as often as not, don't get it at first. Then you fall over the idea a second time and click! The light goes on. Such was my finding and re-finding of TiddlyWiki, a personal wiki system created by one Jeremy Ruston.

Mr. Gibbs, let me introduce myself
First of all this week I wanted to correct something I wrote last week: I discussed the technique of "freezing" PCs to prevent malware changes and mentioned a previous version of Faronics' Deep Freeze, which does just that, had been hacked. The current version, which has been out for four years, has not been hacked. Faronics also has an enterprise version, which I plan to look at in a future Gearhead column. So, where was I? Oh yes, talking about malware. The reader feedback continues.

Place your bets against malware
The response to my recent Gearhead and Backspin columns on malware has been amazing! And the range of suggestions has ranged from admit defeat, wipe the system, and start again to fight the good fight and don't give in.

Giving in to malware
Gibbs thought he'd fixed his problem with malware on a Windows XP system, but as it turns out, he just made the malware work better. Here's the sad tale.

Malware hunting
One of Gibbs' Windows XP machines is acting up. Again. Looks like he's got a case of malware but it seems to be a little hard to find.

Malwarebytes finds pesky Trojan
The last Gearhead column wherein Gibbs discovered that his Windows XP machine was acting weirdly generated a huge amount of reader feedback and one recommendation -- using Malwarebytes Anti-Malware -- worked where many others hadn't.

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