Author Archives: Greg Dewar

About Greg Dewar

Gregory Dewar is a USAF Veteran, who was a communications computer-systems controller. He was the editor-in-chief of The Commuter in the 2008-09 school year and before that he was the opinion editor. Business and technology are his two biggest passions in life and thus: This blog.

Facebook to keep profiles of deceased users

Just in time for Halloween- Facebook has decided to not only hold onto everything on their users’ profiles while they’re alive, but to guarantee that they keep it forever even afetr they’re dead, according to an article from the Associated … Continue reading

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Salute and farewell, Geocities, R.I.P.

Imagine if you had thousands of peoples personal information packets on any subject from the family pet to the biggest political events from ancient Egyptian or Roman times. Continue reading

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Dear computer industry…

It’s just bad engineering, the industry is so hell-bent at all times to produce the fastest card the most quickly, that there just isn’t the time to sit down and make it effecient or of a reasonable size. Chips and coolers are slapped on PCB along with as many power connectors as they deem necessary to make it seem “extreme” and off it goes to the consumer, bloated, uneducated and simple. Continue reading

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Mozilla Raindrop to simplify social networking

What if you could Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Gmail, Flickr, and read Blogs all in one feed from one website? That’s what the makers of Raindrop, from Mozilla Labs- makers of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird free software, aim to accomplish … Continue reading

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Windows 7 Review: Mostly heaven!

Windows 7 releases this week: After 9 long years, Blackcombe has arrived.  You may be asking yourself: “Is this worth the upgrade?” Windows 7 (7) is what Windows Vista (Vista) should have been.  Vista (codenamed longhorn) was always meant to … Continue reading

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Firefox removes Microsoft add-ons from blocklist

According to a Firefox Development blog, Microsoft’s .NET Framework Assistant and Windows Presentation Foundation add-ons to Firefox would be removed from the block list.  It should be automatically re-enabled for most users.  Enterprise users will have to wait for a … Continue reading

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Firefox adds Microsoft add-ons to blocklist

Mozilla Firefox’s block list has added both the .NET Framework Assistant and the Windows Presentation Foundation with the reason being given that there is a remote code execution vulnerability.  This is normal and should be universal to all Windows/Firefox users. … Continue reading

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Anti-Virus creator frustrated by ‘net anonymity

If this were attempted, methinks another, free internet would most likely just crop up and gain in popularity, the same way freeware crops when companies charge too much for software, or regulate software too much. It would also create an entire new generation of underground users, hackers, crackers, and people who simply become outlaws like in the old American west. I daresay that it would cause an open digital revolt that would be the downfall of whatever ruling body was trying to govern it… It would certainly do nothing good whatsoever. Continue reading

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