Archive for December 2007

Open Source Data Encryption for Your Laptop Made Easy

Open Source Data Encryption for Your Laptop Made Easy

With all the reports of data loss these days, many folks are asking how they can best secure their own data while traveling with their laptops. For those travelers and "sensitive imformation carriers" that want the ability to transparent access and secure their personal data while traveling, I usually recommend that they consider encrypting their data with the open source solution TrueCrypt.Here we will explore the methods that I use t...

Your color laser printer is telling the government everything…

Your color laser printer is telling the government everything…

Your color laser printer is out to get ya!  There recently been a huge deal with the government and your privacy. What’s the issue? It’s all about tracking your documents through your color laser printer. Did you know that when you print on a color laser printer that an invisible pattern of tiny yellow dots are printed on the paper. What are they? They are the same as a serial number so that the manufacturer can identify who you are. It...

Open Source  Business Trip

Open Source Business Trip

Looking at going on a little trip.. .some business, some pleasure…. I have a few options in mind, but would definitely like some feedback on some great, non-traditional European cities.. I found some great deals, but any input/advice would be great. I’ll be taking my wife, and 3 kids, and as stated, looking at doing business while I’m there. I’ll be visiting about 11 different European -based clients, working with their ...

Google Answers Stirs Zombie-Like as Google Q&A

Google Answers Stirs Zombie-Like as Google Q&A

One of the few triumphs Yahoo has had over Google in the past few years is Yahoo Answers, which is one of Yahoo’s fastest-growing properties. Meanwhile, the more academic (and lumbering) Google Answers was shut down in 2006 when Google figured out that nobody wants to pay “researchers” to do Google searches for them. Some of those researchers went on to start UClue. But now the Google Operating System blog has uncovered some evidence su...

Top Ten Tricks to Piss off your Webmaster

Top Ten Tricks to Piss off your Webmaster

Written by http://www.haineault.com/blog/27/ So here it is (in no particular order): 1. Pre-reserve your domain and hosting with a small and obscure foreign web based company. 2. Assume that those who made your website also inherited the technical support for your emails. 3. Send all your texts on plain old paper, but not handwritten. It's important that the guy who has to retype them knows that there is a digital version somewhere. 4. When ...

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