Monthly update #0240 • April 2010
Monthly update 240 • April 2010 • 2010-04-01 - 2010-04-30
Monthly Updates
2010
77 posts
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 (2010), directed by Jon Favreau, follows Tony Stark as the world demands he hand over the Iron Man suit while a new enemy with a personal grudge builds weapons to destroy him. Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark, now famous and under pressure from every side.
Movies
What is dhcp6d?
If you see dhcp6d running on your Mac, here is what this IPv6 networking process does.
Mac
Toen Was Geluk Heel Gewoon
Toen was geluk heel gewoon (When Happiness Was Very Common) is a Dutch sitcom that aired on KRO from 2 January 1994 to 3 June 2009.
TV Series
What is security.authtrampoline?
If you see security.authtrampoline on your Mac, here is what this privilege helper process does.
Mac
The Arctic Event by Robert Ludlum
In Robert Ludlum’s The Arctic Event, co-authored with James H. Cobb, Covert-One's Jon Smith leads a team to a crashed Soviet bomber in the Arctic that holds a deadly biological cargo.
Books
De Cock en de moord op Anna Bentveld by A.C. Baantjer
A sex worker is murdered in Amsterdam and suspicion lands on a young burglar. De Cock plays only a small part while a colleague leads the case.
Books
Monthly update #0239 • March 2010
Monthly update 239 • March 2010 • 2010-03-01 - 2010-03-31
Monthly Updates
Happy Easter
Easter now speaks to me as a young adult. The resurrection victory of Jesus inspires daily living.
Christianity
Good Friday
Good Friday now speaks to me as a young adult. The death of Jesus on the cross inspires daily living.
Christianity
Privacy Roundup #0044 • March 2010
March 2010 was dominated by surveillance reckonings, from a German court striking down data retention to American judges and lawmakers turning on warrantless wiretaps, webcam spying and Google Buzz.
Privacy
Useful macOS defaults: Dock
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.dock, controlling the Dock's look, size, position, and behaviour.
Mac
What is scsid?
If you see scsid running on your Mac, here is what this storage communication process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0238 • February 2010
Monthly update 238 • February 2010 • 2010-02-01 - 2010-02-28
Monthly Updates
De Cock en het lijk in de kerstnacht by A.C. Baantjer
On Christmas night a young woman's body is pulled from an Amsterdam canal. The dead woman was strangled and pregnant, and De Cock wants to close the case fast.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0043 • February 2010
February 2010 was dominated by the Google Buzz backlash, the Lower Merion webcam spying scandal and a string of botnet and surveillance rows on both sides of the Atlantic.
Privacy
De Cock en de wurger op zondag by A.C. Baantjer
Detective De Cock is called back from his holiday to take over a stalled murder case. A sex worker has been killed and the trail has gone cold.
Books
What is VDCAssistant?
If you see VDCAssistant running on your Mac, here is what this camera assistant process does.
Mac
Monthly update #0237 • January 2010
Monthly update 237 • January 2010 • 2010-01-01 - 2010-01-31
Monthly Updates
The Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling espionage novel, The Cobra, the U.S. President calls upon Paul Devereaux, a retired CIA operative known as “The Cobra,” to take down the global cocaine trade.
Books
Privacy Roundup #0042 • January 2010
January 2010 turned privacy into front-page news, as the China hack pushed Google to drop censorship, airport body scanners triggered a strip-search row, and surveillance abuses at the FBI came to light.
Privacy
iMok
iMok is intended as a kind of notepad to record what your colleagues or friends drink: coffee with milk, two lumps of sugar or maybe just black.
Projects
Avenger by Frederick Forsyth
In Frederick Forsyth’s thrilling novel, Avenger, Calvin Dexter, a former Vietnam War tunnel rat turned lawyer and vigilante, embarks on a personal quest to hunt down Zoran Zilic, a Serbian war criminal responsible for a horrific murder.
Books
What is nfsd?
If you see nfsd running on your Mac, here is what this process does and whether you need it.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0041 • December 2009
Facebook rewrote its privacy settings to push people to share more, while leaks and lawsuits exposed how phone firms, web giants and governments handle our data.
Privacy