recent computer news

Now, apple is putting iPhone on sale in America. Many people make a line in front of apple store. One thing that I surprised is that many people can get their iPhone without waiting long time because I guess many people wait before day of sale. However, I read that there are not many people who wait one day in front of store. And few people can get even though they go to store lately. People are excited to iPhone, but now we don't know when we can get iPhone in Japan.

Other news is about hard sell that is called Win AntiVirusPRO. When people look at foreign site, pop-up screen appear. It seems formal information that some security problem happen on your computer. However, it is just to sell program that normally doesn't work. They lead to buy or to be gotten bad program.

Interesting web sites

First I recommend San Diego Zoo home page. Most of the pages talk about events or calendar. However, you can enjoy this site even though you can't go to San Diego Zoo. You can see interesting news about animals at blog. Moreover, you can watch image on live. It is very fun because you can go the zoo at home!! Do you want to go the zoo?

Secondly, do you know Garfield, yellow cat? This site is official Garfield web site. You can see much information about Garfield and his friends. Also, you can see comics and play games. It is very cute site. Let's meet Garfield!

Finally, I recommend the site that is called Farstrider. net. This site introduces several countries. I especially recommend to see Japan page. This site introduces many event or place. You sometimes find that you don't know about Japan. Please learn more.

What is Social Engineering?

Social engineering is to get important information for computer security without permission. Social engineers easily get password or some important information.

Social engineers can get information from garbage if people just throw away the paper that is written computer information. And if people use slips on computer to keep password, they look at that and easily get personal information. Most people don’t know about technical word for computer, so if social engineer call and tell about technical things, people often trust him as technician, and then people easily tell their information that should not be shared.

In company, they call to company and pretend technician who solve problem for company. Then, they ask password. Another is that they pretend employees, and try to help desk or server administrator. Or, they pretend employees who forgot password. Social engineering uses old style and uses people’s weakness.

Here is another source.

About Mac

I really don’t know about Mac because I’m not so interested in that. However, as I search Mac, I find it is useful and interesting. First of all, I can share the computer in my family. I can have different account. Now, I have one computer and we share to use. But, if I can have own account, I can arrange whatever I want. That’s interesting. Also, now my family don’t use computer so much. However, if we can have own account, we can enjoy more. In addition, we can make movie or photo album easily. I can’t think about arranging movie or photo by myself. It seems difficult, but if I can do these things, it’s more fun. I am also interested in iChat. I can talk on computer though video. I think it is future, but it is no more future. We can do now. Now, I am interested in Mac little bit. If I have time, I want to know Mac more.

My History with Computer

When I was kid, I used computer in school. In my school, we had computer class sometimes. During this time, I played game. The game was about skiing. The skier goes down the hill, so I had to operate the skier to avoid hindrances like trees or rocks. If skier hit to something, the dog that hang the bottle of wine came to him. And then he revived.

I can’t remember exactly about it, but I remember that the game was so difficult. It was from America, so all of explanation was English. Of cause, I couldn’t read it in this time. Therefore, I played the game without explanation of operation. I didn’t know how to move the character, and how to get the point. I typed the key board randomly, and I was looking forward which keys could be used. Then, I found some of keys, but I still couldn’t play completely. I wonder now why I played such a game that I couldn’t know how to play.