Monthly Archives: February 2008

Disk Encryption Defeated

It appears that the disk encryption schemes used by different operating systems can be easily circumvented. Princeton Researchers have disproved a common misconception of one of the key components of a computer, that the system’s RAM loses all information stored … Continue reading

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High Performance Enabled SSH

For those who don’t know SSH – Secure SHell – is a secure way of remote administration of a server through the command line. This was first used in Unix servers but has made it’s way to Linux and Windows, … Continue reading

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ICANN now using IPV6

ICANN the company that handles all the domain names and ip addresses for the world have just turned on IPV6 in 6 of the 13 root servers. So the movement to version 6 has begun. Some large companies have been … Continue reading

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Save XP Petition

For those that don’t know Microsoft plans to stop sales of Windows XP, and force everyone into using Vista. Infoworld has a petition for those that don’t want this fate for XP.

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VMWare Server 2.0 Beta

Vmware has announced the beta of their virtualization product. I haven’t tried out the newest version yet but I use Vmware Server on an almost daily basis for testing with different operating systems. I have several distros of linux installed … Continue reading

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