There must be something in the water cooler over at Information Week, because I think this week’s Secret CIO column is right on the money, and I usually disagree with him, or skip the column because it’s just whining about… Read More »Password Complexity
Bob Evans from Information Week has the most sane reporing I’ve read to date on RFID. I’m not sure why most reporters feel the need to create a stir about this technology, but it’s nice to hear a voice of… Read More »Rational RFID reporting
A couple of posts ago, I talked about mounting .iso files as virtual CDs, but what if you want to burn that file to a CD in order to give it to a friend? (only legal software like Linux distros,… Read More »‘easy bake’ .ISO’s to CDLinux and Windows
A couple of posts ago, I talked about mounting .iso files as virtual CDs, but what if you want to burn that file to a CD in order to give it to a friend? (only legal software like Linux distros,… Read More »‘easy bake’ .ISO’s to CDLinux and Windows
I’ve been a big fan of Sysinternals’ freeware offerings for some time. They recently released a rootkit detector that they describe as: “RootkitRevealer is an advanced root kit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT4 and higher and its output… Read More »Sysinternals releases free rootkit detector
There is a lot of discussion going on about the hacking of Paris Hilton’s Sidekick. There seem to be four trains of thought: The bimbo gave out her password or used a weak one. Or was it socially engineered from… Read More »Paris Hilton Sidekick hack:breach, blunder or brilliant marketing?
Andrew White has posted another excellent article @ Novell Cool Solutions on registry hacks for administering student PCs. He calls them ‘draconian”, but I think they’re very insightful.
Just a quick update on Asterisk@Home. 1st – they have come out with two new versions since I’ve given it a go – I’m downloading v6 as we speak. 2nd – Install was no problem, I got it up and… Read More »Asterisk@Home follow-up
I’ve been playing with a lot of different software lately, and have started bemoaning how many times I’ve burnt a .iso file to a CD for one-time use. I was going to buy a couple of CD-RWs to be less… Read More »Mounting .iso images: Windows, Linux & Netware
So, my 3rd Motorola T720 finally stopped charging, and I decided that even though this phone was free from Cingular, I needed something a little less flaky. I’d really like the ability to have my phone act as a data… Read More »Why are cell carriers so afraid of data via bluetooth?