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- To look up an address. For example, "to resolve a name" means to look up the corresponding address for that name. The phrase "external references in the program...
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- 75% of online banking sites found vulnerable to security design flaws
- In a paper entitled "Analyzing Web sites for user-visible security design flaws" to be published at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security meeting at Carnegie Mellon University July 25, Atul Prakash and two of his doctoral students examined 214 financial institutions in 2006, finding that over 75% of all...
- Tags: Bank, Online Banking, Flaw, Security, Financial Services, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboard
- Twitter anti-spam efforts go overboardLarge services such as this can not...are too big to manage. Managing this type of technology with technology will time after time result in mismanagement. Just like Gmail and other that are spamming the Internet.Networks require real human intervention to manage properly. Anything less is...
- Tags: Spam, Twitter, anti-spam, anti-spam effort
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir and I was asked to register...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Psystar.com offline ...
- Psystar.com offline ...It's dead, Jim.Nolo connecte.Psystar sold more than Apple clonesWhat would give Apple the right to terminate their entire web site because of one product they sell? If I object to something on Amazon's site do I have that same right?The Digg EffectntIt's up.I can get to it at...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Psystar.com, Psystar, Apple Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-16
- Windows Update versus Ubuntu Update
- A few months ago, Steve Ballmer publicly noted that Windows Vista was "a work in progress." That inspired a predictable outpouring of Vista-bashing. After all, look how many updates Windows Vista has had since it was first released. Obviously, it was a disaster, or there would have been no need...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Microsoft Windows Update, Operating System, Update, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Airport security part 5: Snakes on planes? Check. Marshalls on planes? Nope.
- Update: TSA has commented on the CNN story on their website. From our good friend Dave Lewis from Liquidmatrix Security Digest, and memorable quotes from Samuel L. Jackson, apparently we can draw the conclusion that we have snakes on planes, but not Federal...
- Tags: Airport Security, Transportation Security Administration, Dave Lewis, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- DIRECTV, what about "Make the products work" and "Keep the customers happy" do you not understand?
- Well, I was going to write my post-mortem of the iPhone launch and go into an entire diatribe on crappy customer service and the perils of early adoption, but then I found myself with a much better target than AT&T Wireless and Apple -- the idiots...
- Tags: Customer Service, DirecTV, HR-20, HR-21, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- EPIC iFAIL
- EPIC iFAILhmmm 2.0iPhone software 2.0 can import all your contacts from your SIM card. JUST FYI.RE: EPIC iFAILWell since you have a T-Mobile phone and it also has a SIM card you can copy all your contacts to your SIM card and Then all you have to do is have...
- Tags: Flash memory, OK IT, EPIC iFAIL, EPIC, Apple iPhone, lunatic, SIM card, reasonable people
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Open Discussion: Software firewalls
- Open Discussion: Software firewallsRE: Open Discussion: Software firewallsI use both Windows Firewall in Vista and the built in hardware firewall in my router. I just don't see the need for a resource hungry, third party solution any more when the built in firewall in Windows does an admirable job.Fire ...
- Tags: Firewalls, Network security, SECURITY, software, firewall, Network Address Translation, NAT Router, Microsoft Windows Firewall
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Apple's iPhone activation server problems (updated 2x)
- Apple's iPhone activation server problems (updated 2x)Upgrade experienceI'm upgrading a 4 gig June 29, 2007 phone and got the same -9838 message, and a bricked iPhone.I've just tried again and got the -4 message, however, my phone is still bricked, showing a pretty image of a USB cable plugging into...
- Tags: Cellular phones, GUESS IT, Apple iPhone, Apple iPhone activation server problem, activation server problem, Apple Inc., phone
- Discussion threads 2008-07-11
- Apple's iPhone 3G activation/sync fiasco (updated 5x)
- Atlantic City -- I'm not sure if it's just a server load issue because of all the east coast Apple and AT&T stores opening, but here at the Apple Store at The Pier customers are being told that their phones can't be activated and to take them home to activate....
- Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- DOT11 Monitor (exe)
- Enterprise Wi-Fi deployments have become mission critical. Mobile users are dependent upon a robust radio frequency RF connection between their mobile client device and the network infrastructure. Disconnects between the mobile client device and the network infrastructure are disruptive, and, because of the nature of the radio frequency signal, can...
- Tags: Monitor, Mobile, Radio Frequency, Radio, Oberon, Mobile User, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Marketing, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-07-10
- Reiser leads police to wife's body, gets 15 years
- Hans Reiser was sentenced to 15 years to life in jail for strangling his wife to death in 2006. As part of a deal reached with the Alameda County DA, Reiser received a reduced prison sentence and conviction on a lesser charge -- second degree murder --...
- Tags: Project, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Ticking bombs in enterprise land
- I believe the enterprise software industry is heading for major problems. It started when I read Francine McKenna where she talks about what she sees as a doomsday scenario for at least one of the Big Four audit businesses. Francine's focus is on questioning the effectiveness of current methods for...
- Tags: Software, Audit, Francine, Tools & Techniques, Financial Accounting, Management, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?
- Might Microsoft's Midori be 'Cairo' revisited?If it is object oriented -it would work like OS/2, the versions after Microsoft and IBM stopped working together.The Workplace Shell was the best environment I've ever worked on.Baseless speculation is fun but uselessToward that end I would recommend you look up the meaning of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Midori, Microsoft Corp., operating system, SP1, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- An IT productivity horror story
- An IT productivity horror storyMiddlemen1, Speculating on your unconfirmed report, is there any love lost between the insurance companies and the independent insurance brokers? Relationships between suppliers and independent brokers tend to change over time. If the companies are after the margins of the brokers, automated communication may be the...
- Tags: Financial Planning, IT productivity, information technology, insurance, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- WordPress, Gears, and the converging browser/desktop
- WordPress, Gears, and the converging browser/desktopGears is good, but, we still need support for a better compiled languagelike a special sand-boxed version of Java. Without Java or similar, we can NOT do things like import complex file types or do a lot of the things that we need for full...
- Tags: Mainframes, cloud computing, Web browsers, mainframe, Web application, desktop, Wordpress, Web browser
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Helpdesks and productivity
- Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...
- Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Tiller Beauchamp on the Recon 2008 conference
- Guest Editorial by Tiller Beauchamp Earlier this month I had the opportunity to present RE:Trace at the Recon conference, a reverse engineering conference held every other year in Montreal, Canada. The conference consisted of three days of training and three days of talks in a single track. Topics...
- Tags: Reverse Engineering, Kernel, Conference, Novell NetWare, LDAP, Operating Systems, Servers, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
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