Lockergnome's IT
Professionals ~ September 21,
2004
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Spin-kicking, Bruce Lee Style! (Report)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Matt Hartley
Man, I hate Mondays. Spent the better part of the day spin-kicking
a case fan that would not stop making so much noise. Oh sure, I could
have been professional about it and actually tried to troubleshoot the
problem, but what fun would that be? On a brighter note, however, I
received some great feedback regarding my questions and concerns about
moving to Vonage. While I am still a little leery about it, I might...
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Why Do Only Some Heatsinks Have Fans? (Just
Ask Matt!)
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Welcome to Just Ask Matt! - The IT industry's answer to the help
column, only slightly more medicated. Today, Tim writes: Matt, how
come some computers have heatsinks with fans attached and others
don't? My computer is older and I am guessing this has something to do
with why there is no fan. What is going on here?... [Continued]
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Routers Gone Wild! (Troubleshooting)
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There is nothing quite as irritating as waking up from a restful
slumber only to find your browser stuck at the infamous "resolving or
connecting (insert homepage here)" mode with your cable connection.
You know the one, where it just hangs there for no reason at all when
you know that no changes to the Internet connection have taken place.
It is irritating and often seems to happen without any real reason
whatsoever. Never fear,... [Continued]
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Why you shouldn't be using passwords of any
kind on your Windows networks (Security)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
"So this is my first ever blog entry and seeing as how I'm a
senior member of the PSS Security Incident Response team, you may
think I've stopped taking my medication by opening with a title like
the one above! Medication issues notwithstanding, it's true - you
should NOT be using passwords of any kind. Why? For starters,
passwords are ridiculously easy to guess or crack. Worms like Agobot /
Phatbot / Polybot / SDBot... [Continued]
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Vonage: Good News & Bad News (Feedback)
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In response to Matt Hartley's report, From Phone Age To Vonage?,
Gnomie Jim Bell writes: Matt, I subscribed to Vonage's Voice over IP
service about two weeks ago. First, the good stuff. The call
accounting platform is excellent. Being able to pick up voice mail
from Vonage's Web site or in your e-mail box is a great feature.
Quality of Service is excellent. I also love the ability to have both
my home phone and... [Continued]
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Norton Doesn't Play Well With SourceSafe
(Talk)
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I have been using SourceSafe (6.0D) over a 1.6 MB DSL line for
several months with great success. Recently, I brought on two more
developers for my project, and both of them had just horrific results.
>From within VB.NET I could do a "get latest copy recursive" of our
source files in less than a minute. (To make all tests equal, we did
one "get latest copy recursive" to be sure we had the most... [Continued]
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Own an Anti-Spam Software Company? Commtouch
May Own You! (Aunty Spam)
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Commtouch, makers of enterprise and ISP level anti-spam solutions,
announced this week that it has acquired a patent which describes "a
system that monitors live e-mail, identifies certain characteristics
of the e-mail messages that appear in more than one e-mail, and blocks
other e-mails with the same pattern."... [Continued]
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SP2 Glitches (Take Warning)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Lockergnome
As a tech, I found out something interesting with the SP2. A
computer store locally is an OEM distributor and I even work through
them to put on OSes for people. He gave me a copy of "Gold" addition
of SP2 so I can upgrade customers' XP machines. For those of you who
don't know it, the "Gold" version is the full-blown 255 MB version of
SP2 that Microsoft provides to licensed distributors, computer
makers,... [Continued]
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thawte Crypto Challenge VI and Lunch Hour
Challenge (Press Release)
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Cape Town, South Africa, 9 September, 2004: thawte consulting
(pty) ltd., the second largest digital trust service company
worldwide, is launching their Crypto Challenge VI and Lunch Hour
Challenge competitions on the 9 September. Both competitions are free
to enter and aimed at Cryptography hobbyists of all levels: from
beginners wanting to learn, to experts looking for a challenge.... [Continued]
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Robert Hensing's Incident Response WebLog
(Security)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
I'm going to continue to read this guy. I suggest that - if you're
interested in security on Windows - you should, too. "Monday, August
09, 2004 # The silent war - combat evolved: Hacker Personas
"Information warfare" is a term I think about every day. It is very
much an applicable term for *businesses* (warfare, it's not just for
governments anymore ) to use when talking about their role in
*defending* their computer networks.... [Continued]
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