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Just go a surprise from my friend Behzad in Santa Barbara. He needed some help with some work he was doing for a professor. He didnt know how to use a shell so he gave me a call for some help. Nothing a few grep and sed commands couldnt fix relatively quickly. People always seem to be amazed when I tell them I’m answering their call in Argentina even though they called my US number. If vonage could only get some of the touch tone issues I keep having fixed I would recomend their service to everyone. Then again if I were in the states they’d replace this ATA and they claim it would fix my troubles. Then again googling finds tons of problems with the ATA they want to give me so who knows.

Thanks to Robert Scoble for the response and the traffic. Anyways, Robert Scoble responded to but didn’t really say much. Basically he pushed his 14 point security plan for Windows again. I still think its way too expensive to get the illusion of security under Windows. Most of it ammounts to buy more software / hardware or buy newer versions of Microsoft products. If you are running Windows and can afford to follow his advice you probably should or else you’ll find yourself in as Chris and Kevin. However, I still recomend just replacing it with a better product like a combo of Linux, OpenOffice, and Mozilla. You’ll find yourself more secure and you’ll save yourself a ton of cash. Windows is just too damn expensive as is, why fork over all that additional cash to secure it when something cheaper and better exists? Maybe the increasing cost of securing Windows is why I have not been able to find a single unpriated copy of Windows while traveling here in Argentina 🙂