Lockergnome's IT
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2004
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Here a WLAN, there a WLAN, everywhere a WLAN!
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Link to Friends | Posted by Chris Pirillo
Scribbled by Matt of JustCallMatt.net. I find myself sitting in a
Starbucks in between clients on a chilly day in Chi-Town... I had just
completed a residential Wireless LAN installation consisting of an
Airport Extreme Base Station and Airport Express Adapter to stream to
the client's home stereo, a brand new 14" iBook (gift from the client
to her husband), and a Dell Inspirion 600m laptop. The home was
already Cat-5 Wired, so I had... [Continued]
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The Explosion of Phishing... (Security)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Lockergnome
This practice is a problem of monumental proportions. No, not
fishing, but phishing. The incidents of this fraud are perpetrated by
what I would consider losers of the worst kind: people that prey upon
unsuspecting strangers. I had my first encounter with phishing several
years ago in the form of an official-looking eBay e-mail. I, being the
suspicious type, reported it immediately and the copycats joined in
with PayPal, etc. Phishing is getting much more... [Continued]
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The Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics (Aunty
Spam's Net Patrol)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Aunty Spam's Net Patrol
The Computer Ethics Institute is part and parcel of the Brookings
Information Technology Services, a division of the world-famous
Brookings Institution in Washington D.C.. Tracing its origins back to
1916, the Brookings Institution is often at the fore of public policy
research and discourse. Back in 1992, Dr. Ramon Barquin, both founder
and head of the Computer Ethics Institute, as well as President and
CEO of Barquin International, and formerly an executive at IBM,
presented... [Continued]
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Information Security Magazine Determines Top
39 Security Products (Aunty Spam's Net Patrol)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Aunty Spam's Net Patrol
Information Security Magazine, following extensive review, has
published its list of the top security products for 2004. Evaluating
products in a baker?s dozen of categories, and with a first, second,
and third place in each (gold, silver, and bronze, respectively), this
is one extensive and thorough cross-product comparison! Aunty
particularly likes that they provide not only a blurb about each
gold-winning product, but provide user comments for the silver and
bronze winners. The thirteen categories... [Continued]
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Even Unpatched, Linux Most Secure OS (Aunty
Spam's Net Patrol)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Aunty Spam's Net Patrol
You may recall that last week Aunty reported that an advanced
computer class at Chicago University had found 44 security holes in
Unix. Well, its kissing cousin, Linux, the people who brought you that
adorable penguin, Tux, is more secure, even unpatched, than are other
computer systems, and specifically Windows, even when patched. And
that?s with the 985 bugs recently found in the Linux kernal (but to
put it in perspective, that?s in 5.7 million... [Continued]
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Still Looking for a Good PC (Feedback)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Chris Pirillo
Scribbled by Warren Ward Let me tell you a funny story about IBM.
In the 80s I was the chief R&D engineer working for a Coopervision
division. We had designed a new fancy laser-based system and decided
to use the new IBM XT for the controlling software. So I dutifully
called IBM's sales department looking to buy 1000 PCs. They never
returned my call. I called again. No answer. Then I wrote a letter
to... [Continued]
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TechRepublic Guided Tour: A look At Windows
Server 2003's Active Directory Users And Computers (Tech
Toolshed)
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Link to Friends | Posted by TechRepublic
One of the utilities that a Windows Server 2003 network
administrator will use most frequently is Active Directory Users And
Computers. However, new network administrators and network
administrators who've only used Windows NT may find themselves
confused by the new utility. Here's a look at Active Directory Users
And Computers in W2K3, what it does, how it differs from utilities in
Windows NT Server and Windows 2000 Server, how it works, and how to
perform... [Continued]
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One Needle, Many Haystacks (Tips)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Marc Erickson
Don Jones of Redmond Magazine writes about easing your event log
viewing chores... Minimize the laborious task of searching for
specific events with Event Comb. Configuring auditing on your Windows
servers is a great idea: You?ll catch events for successful logons,
account lockouts, file access and more. What?s a bad idea is trying to
use the captured events! Browsing through servers? event logs is
perhaps the most tedious task in the administrative universe, even
with... [Continued]
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Windows Server 2003 Special Permissions
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Link to Friends | Posted by Diana Huggins
NTFS permissions include standard permissions and special
permissions. The standard permissions are actually a combination of
specific special permissions. The Standard NTFS permissions are as
follows: Read - Allows a user to view the contents of a folder, of the
contents of a file. The user cannot view the contents of subfolders.
Write - Allows a user create files and folders, but not read the
contents of any files and folders he did not create.... [Continued]
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Certification Success - Understanding Network
Monitor Part II (Certification)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Diana Huggins
Once Network Monitor is installed, it can be accessed through any
of the Administrative Tools methods, or by typing NETMON on the run
line, which will open the Explorer folder, where you can double-click
on NETMON.EXE, and quickly navigate to any capture logs from that
point. Once Network Monitor is up and running, it can get confusing
very quickly. First of all, you won't be able to view data until you
tell Network Monitor to... [Continued]
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It's starting to taste a lot like Christmas!
(Report)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Matt Hartley
Tell me, what do toys, overeating, and sitting around with family
watching the kids tear into wrapping paper like it is going out of
style, have to do with Christmas? The one holiday when gluttony,
commercialism and all the other stuff that gives me warm fuzzies is
accepted without question. Yes folks, Christmas is almost upon us and
I for one hope that everyone gets what they want this year. As for
myself, I am... [Continued]
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Strange errors, anoying prompts, what gives?
(Just Ask Matt!)
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Link to Friends | Posted by Matt Hartley
Welcome to Just Ask Matt! - The IT industry's answer to the help
column, only slightly more medicated. Today, Sam writes: I am losing
my mind and I need help. Matt, every time I start my computer, I keep
getting 'checksum error' during the computer's startup. What the heck
does this mean? And why can't they just tell me in plain English? If
you can answer this, I will be forever in your debt. Thanks.... [Continued]
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