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- Backtrack v2 Beta released
- Backtrack v2.0 Beta is now available from www.remote-exploit.org; this is the latest release of the awesome security auditing suite which can be run as a LiveCD, from a USB flash stick or installed to disk. The Backtrack suite provides almost every tool a security analyst or penetration...
- Tags: Backtrack v2.0, Linux, Security, security auditing, Vulnerability, Vulnerability Scanner
- Blog posts 2006-10-16
- New Word Viewer Available
- Microsoft has a new viewer for Word—Word Viewer 2003. This viewer lets you view, print, and copy Word documents, even if you don’t have Word installed. Inner-office, this probably isn’t a problem. When sharing information with someone outside your organization, a viewer can be helpful. Believe or not, everyone doesn’t...
- Tags: Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- No means no... and who needs that?
- I was talking to an animal communicator one time, and she claimed that when you speak to your dogs (or cats or horses or who knows, gerbils even), you should never use negative terms. She said that they dont know what "no" means, or "don’t." Not being linguists (good dog,...
- Tags: Calvin Sun
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- Good Indexing May Improve Database Performance
- Tons of data, complex calculations, busy forms, and even network traffic impact a database’s performance. Your first line of defense against poor performance is a good design that includes appropriate indexes. An index is an underlying structure that determines how Access stores and retrieves data. By default, Access applies an...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-15
- That last minute caller!
- That last minute caller! It’s been a long night shift; you are looking forward to going home, eating a meal and clearing your head of those dumb users. With less than a minute to go your phone rings and your heart sinks. You go through that inner...
- Tags: Help desk, Call centers, won&rsquo, t
- Blog posts 2007-03-25
- The ePassport cloning myth never dies
- Here we go again with the BBC reporting the same myth that electronic passports have been “cloned” which got a lot of readers from digg and slashdot. This grossly misinformed myth has been repeated so many times by the press that the lie has basically become true. I’m...
- Tags: Lukas Grunwald, RFID, RFID ePassport, Security
- Blog posts 2006-12-18
- Of course we're prepared. Just wait one or two or three more years...
- Okay, raise your hand. Who wants to be first? You, in the back. You’ll do. No, you can’t back out now. I don’t care if the person beside you did say you were raising it to win a door prize. Here’s a...
- Tags: Accountability, Bill Elmore, Comments, Disaster Recovery, DR company, Enterprise, Hmmm Well, I&rsquo, m, mailbox, Suggestions
- Blog posts 2007-02-19
- Mission Statements are a waste of time
- Before you read any further, take a moment and repeat your organization’s Mission Statement. If you could actually remember it, now compare what you said with the actual text of the written statement. Chances are you couldn’t remember it. Many can’t even come close. ...
- Tags: John McKee, Management, Career, Boss, Leadership, Coaching, Performance, Company Culture, Mission Statement
- Blog posts 2006-11-09
- Getting Things Done -- Or Not
- “I didn’t get anything done today!” How many times have you said that lately? Especially after an exhausting day!?! If you’re getting further behind the faster you go, ask yourself one piercing question: How do you spend your time? And then this one: How sure of that are you?...
- Tags: Accountability, Blohowiak, leader, Planning, Time Management, TimeTracker
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- Macs in the Enterprise?
- It does seem that Apple Mac computers are becoming more and more popular in the consumer market. While still a ‘premium’ option for low income households, the majority of others are beginning to see Apple’s machines as a stylish option which matches their iPod, avoids the hassle of malware...
- Tags: Apple, General, Operating Systems
- Blog posts 2007-03-13
- Use Styles to Your Advantage
- Word provides many features for managing large documents. For instance, you can automate a table of contents or an index. Anybody working with large documents already knows the value of clicking a few buttons and having Word produce an index, as if by magic. In addition, keeping up with footnotes...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- Being The Local Tech Bloke
- Many of you will now the feeling, being the person that all your friends and family come to for advice and help with every kind of computing query known to man, and every time that Microsoft releases a new operating system the queries are inevitably along the lines...
- Tags: Upgrading, windows, Free Tech Support, Help, PC
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- SSID cloaking is not enough protection
- I recently had a conversation with another security professional about relying on SSID cloaking to protect wireless networks in SMBs small and medium businesses. In many cases, these businesses can’t afford the infrastructure and services or don’t have the technical know-how necessary to deploy strong protection like 802.1x. ...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, SSID, Associated Press, wireless
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Would .safe make a difference?
- A recent press release from F-Secure again urges ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to introduce a .safe top-level domain to be used by registered and verified financial institutions. The call comes as the UK payments association APACS released data showing that compared to the first six...
- Tags: Security, News, General, Financial Sector
- Blog posts 2007-04-11
- The effects of letting others drive
- Do you ever wonder who is driving the bus? Did your company leaders really decide all on their own to be the flag bearer for that particular vendor’s fresh new technology? It seems some IT managers can get as caught up in the hype of a...
- Tags: Analysis, Beliefs, Bill Elmore, Enterprise, Practices
- Blog posts 2007-01-29
- Vinge Rainbow's End - Book burning writ large? Or Big Brother meets the Web?
- Having greatly influenced the development of cyberculture with his earlier writing, Vernor Vinge is at it once again with a vision of text-messaging gone wild to the point of near telepathy and schools where the most important skill taught is the ability to navigate the cyberworld and evaluate the credibility...
- Tags: Game, Web, Novel, Computer, Games, Productivity, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management, siliconsamurai
- Blog posts 2006-12-15
- The MOICE Office 2003 security plug-in
- Microsoft plans to release a plug-in to protect users from exploits targeting an ever-growing number of Office vulnerabilities. Known as MOICE Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment, the tool converts Office 2003 Word, Excel, or PowerPoint documents to the Office 2007 Open XML format. This creates a document that...
- Tags: Word, Viruses, Virus, Security, MOICE, Office 2003, Microsoft Update, Microsoft, Cybercrime, Antivirus Research, Antivirus
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Configuring a Distributed File System (DFS) on your Windows Network
- The Windows 2000 Distributed File System DFS allows users to find, view, and work with files on your network from one central location. With DFS configured, users do not have to understand the complexities of a network or enter long UNC addresses to browse to files. DFS is installed with...
- Tags: Dfs Root, Distributed File System, Microsoft Windows, network
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Don't Stereotype When It Comes To Hiring
- I was waiting in the airport the other day for my flight to arrive when a CIO from another organization noticed my ID and struck up a conversation with me. I had not met him before but he seemed like an affable person, so we began to converse. I’m not...
- Tags: Career, game, hiring, Hr, Management
- Blog posts 2006-11-19
- Where is the AI in my office suite?
- I have been spending time with Office 2007 lately and I am not overly excited about it. I think it goes against the whole Windows tenet: If you know how to use one application, then your knowledge is directly transferable to another application because the interface is set up in...
- Tags: Open Source, Open Office, Office Suite, General, Artificial Intelligence, AI
- Blog posts 2007-05-06
