Idle Sony - Again?

The Christmas Season is coming, so lets sing “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”.

Come on Sony Corporation don’t be shy. Here’s the lyrics if you can’t remember. .

You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town

He's making a list,
And checking it twice;
Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice.
Santa Claus is coming to town

Whoa! Wait a minute. Sony is not singing. I wonder why?

O I see, NOW you had Rootkit in your New Digital Camera too?

Naughty, naughty.

Idle Sony

Have you read or heard about Sony’s recent very naughty, naughty deeds of installing a root kid-based antipiracy technology quietly  in their music CDs?

Briefly what it do is to install the root kit software in your PC without you knowing. Even if you got to know it later, it is almost impossible to remove. What the root kit do is it send information to Sony of your IP address and what you are doing with the CD. Sony use this to prevent piracy to their CDs. – Very uncool.

This thing is happening in US but those of us (not in US) have to be very careful about this. Please be aware of any Sony-BMG CDs that you bought recently.

However, worry not. Microsoft announced that it next update for Windows AntiSpyware will be able to undo this issue.

If you need further reading and information, surf to Mark Russinovich's Blog. (Thks to Paul Thurrott at windowsitpro.com)

Idle 40Faces

At last, I managed to put up a photo of myself in my blog profile. It wasn’t that difficult to do. The only thing that takes me so long to do that is – I didn’t read through the HELP section in Blogger. Anyway, its up now.

To all bloggers, please surf thru’ Fortyfaces. It shows up the faces of bloggers who has updated their blogs. Love this idea cause its much more personal & comfortable reading bloggers with faces.

I found this site from reading J-walkblog. However, don’t forget to surf to Phillipp Lenssen blog , the person who starts this. 8)

Idle ATM Machines

Have you notice that POSB ATM machine has updated their interface?

The selection for Malay is now “Malayu” instead of “Melayu”.

Duh