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- Comparing Oracle 10g column masking to relational views
- I'm a VPD user, but not quite convinced...Frankly I've done a couple of VPD implementations because they were easy. I mean, it's really simple for database deployment, and painless (unnoticeable!) to app developers.But I'm not sure that you can't really do the same thing with views. After all,...
- Tags: Oracle Application Server 10g, AWolfe_II, Oracle Corp., VPD
- Discussion threads 2007-04-04
- New bug can crash Internet Explorer
- At least it doesn't run malicious code...unlike many other IE bugs.But I am sticking with my Macs...Use an Open Source BrowserI recommend FireFox.Not new at all is itSame bug different section of code. It's novel approach but how about fixing them all at once ?Why be a Lemming .... try...
- Tags: Web browsers, Opera Software, Lemming, Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- Taking on rootkits with hardware
- article root[Edited by: admin on Dec 13, 2005 11:02 AM]Intel's cleaning Microsoft's messI'm for anything to improve security on any platform, but let's face it -- only Windows is so porous it needs _still_more_ hardware-level security than what Intel already has.The fact is that Intel is creating a secure adjunct...
- Tags: AWolfe_II, hardware, intel, Intel Corp., operating system, rootkit, security, windows
- Discussion threads 2005-12-13
- New-age keyboard: Trace, don't write
- "Cognitive trick" -- hysteric throwaway line!"Speech, however, requires people to think in complete, articulate sentences, a cognitive trick that may have faded out with the orators of the Roman empire."-- true and how wittily put!Cognitive SpeechI would say Shakespeare, Marlow, Byron, Shelly and speech writers continued the tradition well.TV writers...
- Tags: Cognitive, Speech
- Discussion threads 2005-07-12
- Microsoft looks to extinguish LAMP
- article root[Edited by: admin on Jun 15, 2005 12:41 PM]Microsoft selling TCO? ROTFLMAOMicrosoft selling total cost of ownership is ludicrous. The MS stooges who claim MS is cheaper are egregiously distorting things. Fact is you might have more trouble loading Linux WITHOUT Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl than...
- Tags: AWolfe_II, LAMP, Linux, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, programming, security, TCO, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2005-06-15
- Group revives effort to define spyware
- article root[Edited by: admin on Jun 3, 2005 10:13 AM]Television is adware; TiVo is spyware - so what's new?The scam is the same, only the tools have changed.It comes down to this: advertisers offer us services -- entertainment, information, utilities -- that appear to be free but in fact...
- Tags: advertisement, adware, AWolfe_II, security, spyware, TV
- Discussion threads 2005-06-03
- Panel paints grim picture of cybercrime battle
- Using Windows is grimAny Windows installation is a cybercrime waiting to happen. It's certainly true that antivirus and firewall are not enough, but for Microsoft to avoid its culpability in its insecure operating system is offensive.So the panel dumps responsibility to ISPs and internal IT? Please. Since...
- Tags: Apache Software Foundation, AWolfe_II, Microsoft Windows, operating system, security, Using Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-06-02
- HP set to debut last in-house chip
- Alas, the end of Precision ArchitecturePA was a very nice RISC design, a little large in the instruction set but not too much. It's terrible to see another processor family and chip design actitivity die.
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors
- Discussion threads 2005-05-26
- Microsoft security guru: Jot down your passwords
- Microsoft security guru: Jot down your passwordsarticle rootPhysical security of paper slip beats network securityIn the last twenty years, I have lost a credit card from my wallet exactly once. That is to say the physical security of my wallet is extremely strong.So this advice -- contradicting old 'wisdom'...
- Tags: AWolfe_II, Microsoft Corp., password, security
- Discussion threads 2005-05-24
- Absolutly right.
- The institution that allows identify theft by doing nothing to verify the identity of the customer should bear all of the cost of the identity theft including notifying the credit agencys.Identity theft: Attack the right issueWell put!Excellent article. He formulated and expressed answers to questions I had about the...
- Tags: AWolfe_II, card, credit card, Excellent Article, fraud, identity theft, security
- Discussion threads 2005-04-18
- Mac OS X in hackers' crosshairs, report says
- This Mac user confident but concernedHackers have got to start targeting Macs sometime. I have long been confident about mine, because I could see that out of the box it has some reasonably tight security restrictions: a lot of servers are turned off, in particular. The root account...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, AWolfe_II, security
- Discussion threads 2005-03-23
- Linux riskier than Windows?
- Linux riskier than Windows?article rootRidiculousAbsolutely ridiculous. Not ranking vulnerabilities is a real giveaway that this is just another case of Microsoft intentionally trying to mislead the market through another of its surrogates.PLEASE!The FUD is turning into Transfatty FUDGE! The Market has spoken and they know what the deal...
- Tags: AWolfe_II, linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2005-03-23
- Solidify your site design with a navigation map
- Solidify your site design with a navigation maparticle rootCan you post example Nav Maps?I'm not really sure what a Nav Map should look like. Should they be the same as the "site maps" most sites have, or something else?What makes a good site map and what doesn't?Please Provide ExamplesI...
- Tags: AWolfe_II
- Discussion threads 2005-03-22
- Tracking PCs anywhere on the Net
- Maybe we can close down Al Qaeda this wayI'm certainly worried about being targeted by criminals, but I really hope this can be used to shut down terrorist use of the Internet.Loose nut?Any ISP can tell you what devices are on THEIR network. Given the right tools they could give...
- Tags: AWolfe_II, PC, security, Tracking, Tracking PC
- Discussion threads 2005-03-07
- U.S. tech edge getting dull, companies say
- Fed bucks won't fix bad education, bad aspirationsForget federal funding, and don't bank American children's technology status on foreign students. I mean, foreign students are welcome but if someone comes to America for a unique learning opportunity, when they've acquired that education they might have the generosity to bring...
- Tags: foreign student
- Discussion threads 2005-02-17
- Connecting the home networking dots
- Hello?? No mention of Apple?Bill Gates blue-screens at CES repeatedly trying to demo media features Apple had two and three years ago. Meanwhile Apple's Airport Express offers immediate bulletproof music distribution along with the usual wireless routing and printer sharing.Just how blindered are you people?I've home networked my...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., AWolfe_II, Connecting, home networking
- Discussion threads 2005-01-27
- CIOs: Apple's not ready for business
- Worthless; Only Rangaswami knows anythingThese CIOs know nothing -- except maybe that their budgets and hegemony grow with the staff needed to meet the horrendous needs of managing Windows PCs.They certainly have no clue about Apple other than the hackneyed FUD they exchange in their corporate echo chambers; clearly none...
- Tags: Apple Computer Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, AWolfe_II, hardware, operating system, Rangaswami
- Discussion threads 2005-01-21
- The big election beta test
- Hello? ACM has been against e-voting!Electronic voting is a disaster in the making. The Association for Computing Machinery has written its own report and also canvassed members like me and concluded that electronic-only voting is not a trustworthy way to run a democracy.Amen!Amen! No paper trail means...
- Tags: Amen, AWolfe_II, e-voting
- Discussion threads 2004-11-01
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