U.S. gov’t mandates laptop security
The Bush Administration is giving federal civilian agencies just 45 days to comply with new recommendations for laptop encryption and two-factor authentication.
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July 6, 2006
U.S. gov’t mandates laptop security
The Bush Administration is giving federal civilian agencies just 45 days to comply with new recommendations for laptop encryption and two-factor authentication.
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Three charged with stealing Coca-Cola secrets
Williams, 41, of Norcross, Georgia; 30-year-old Ibrahim Dimson, of New York; and 43-year-old Edmund Duhaney of Decatur, Georgia, are charged with wire fraud and unlawfully stealing and selling Coke trade secrets to rival Pepsi Co.
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July 5, 2006
Packet School 101
A great guide on using Ethereal to sniff packets and how to use that information to diagnose various network problems. Contains some great example trace files with information on how to interpret them.
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SSH tricks
The article describes in a human language some of the powerful, yet very useful (even for total newbies) capabilities of OpenSSH, such as passwordless login, automatic execution of commands on a remote system or even mounting a remote folder using SSH.
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Laid-off employees asked to return iPods they received as gifts
National Semiconductor received a lot of press last month for announcing plans to give every employee a 30-gig video iPod as a reward for its “best fiscal year”. The company then laid a bunch of people off and demanded the iPods back, claiming that they were just loaners.
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July 3, 2006
Little-Known Tweak to Boost Hard Drive Performance!
This tweak involves a registry change to force Windows to use UltraDMA-6 mode (133MB/s) for transfers with your drives. Windows has a particularly strange way of handling transfer modes for storage devices, so you could be running slowly and not even know it. I was able to boost the transfer rate of my hard drive by 6X with this tweak!
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July 2, 2006
Hollywood fighting Piracy through price cutting
Warner Bros is selling DVD’s with price tags of only $2.75 in major Chinese cities, aiming to carve out a market for relatively affordable, legitimate versions of movies in a sea of counterfeit products selling for less than a dollar. Nice, I guess if everyone keeps up the piracy in North America and Europe they’ll lower the price here too.
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Microsoft censors MSN Messenger
Microsoft filters out any MSN messages containing “download.php” or “gallery.php”. The messages are silently discarded without any indication being given that they have been blocked. To see a list of legitimate URLs that are now unable to be sent through MSN, put allintitle:download.php into Google. Many are Free Software downloads.
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July 1, 2006
World’s Highest Railway: China Opens 1st Train Service to Tibet
The 710-mile rail line crosses mountain passes up to 16,500 feet high and large stretches of ground that is frozen year-round. Specially designed train cars have oxygen supplies to help passengers cope with the thin air and window filters to protect them from ultraviolet rays, while high-tech cooling systems keep the railbed frozen and stable.
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