June 2008

Friday Funny – Headlines

June 27, 2008

If you like Jay Leno’s Headlines then you’ll really enjoy this collection of newspaper items.

Windows 2008 as a telnet server… Telnet?

June 27, 2008

Did you even know that Win2k8 even had telnet server as an option? Neither did I. I can’t think of a situation where I would ever configure a Win2k8 server as a telnet server but I found this article to be such an anomaly that I had to share it. How to configure a Telnet [...]

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A Truly Free Society

June 26, 2008

RealClearPolitics.com | Legalize All Drugs by John Stossel | link Liberty – 1: the quality or state of being free: a: the power to do as one pleases (Merriam-Webster) What does it mean to be a free society? Or for a citizen to possess freedom? Liberty allows you the free will of action and speech [...]

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obstcp by Google Code

June 26, 2008

obstcp stand for Obfuscated TCP and it is a new project brought to us from the fine folks at Google. According to Google “It’s designed to hamper and detect large-scale wiretapping and corruption of TCP traffic on the Internet”. Those are two great verbs hamper AND detect. Google provides a great paper that clarifies the [...]

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Be the boss of your email

June 26, 2008

MichaelHyatt.com | Yes, You Can Stay on Top of Email by Michael Hyatt | link Every time I see someone’s inbox with 1037 items I grimace and wonder if I should share my simple method of controlling email. The method is called the 3 folder rule and I’m sure I stole it from someone else. [...]

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Vista Performance Tweaks – the quick and dirty version

June 25, 2008

Read my updated version of Vista Performance Tweaks for more recommendations. No explanations just the quick and dirty tweaks for a leaner and faster Vista computer. 1. Disable User Account Control (UAC): navigate to start-> run-> type “msconfig”, select “tools” tab, scroll to “disable uac”, click launch, close msconfig and reboot. 2. Disable System Restore: [...]

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Bound for Black Hat 2008

June 25, 2008

I’ve finalized my plans for attending BlackHat USA and I can’t wait. It’s always a great time and you get to meet the most interesting and intelligent people. I’ll be staying at Caesar’s again this year and I should arrive in Vegas late on Thu Jul 31. If you are going to be around I’d [...]

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Firefox 3 tips and tweaks

June 24, 2008

Lifehacker.com | Power User’s Guide to Firefox 3 by Gina Trapani | link Firefox 3 was released less than a week ago and Lifehacker.com already has a great post with a laundry list of Firefox 3 tweaks. I’ll only highlight a couple of the most useful. Delete Mistyped URL Suggestions and Other Auto-complete Entries – [...]

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