2×23 hellyeah! show: why not Zoidberg?

In this feminine episode of the hellyeah! show, we discuss Office365, RSS feeds, domains and servers, swollen MacBooks, SimCity, A/V receivers, root beer, a variety of recent hacks and exploits, a terrible tablet idea, and TiVo’s latest.

Check out the show notes after the break…

Emory’s stuff

• Massive grats, Dennis and Wednesday!
• Testing Office365’s Email service
• Google Reader we hardly knew ye
  • http://feedafever.com
• Domain/website re-org redux, episode 18
  • emory.kvet.ch: the tumblr
  • incumbent.org: the homepage
    • TBD: what am I going to do with kvet.ch and yeol.de
• autobahn going lights-out at the end of the month
• the case of the swollen MacBook Air

Alan’s stuff

• SimCity
• Onkyo TX-NR616
• Diet A&W

Ermagerd, Hackerz

• China out of New York Times
• RATting
  • malware and “remote access” tools
  • … and the pervs that love them.  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet-the-men-who-spy-on-women-through-their-webcams/
• disable Java if you want to live
  • If you need to run Java desktop software, keep your JVM, but if you don’t know what a JVM is you can remove it.
  • If you must have a JVM, disable the Java browser extensions if your browser hasn’t done it for you.  It’s as dangerous as Adobe Flash. (zomg)

• backdoored networking gear
  • http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/backdoors-found-in-barracuda-networks-gear/

Entertainment

• The ePad Femme!
  • http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/finally-a-tablet-simple-enough-for-a-woman-to-use-sarcasm/
• TiVo Mini and TiVo Stream
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/technology/personaltech/pogue-tivo-mini-stream-review.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0