Sunday, September 09, 2007

Weekend Reading

The ID Theft You Haven't Heard of...Yet

They're not just going on shopping sprees anymore. Now thieves are using your personal info (or your child's) to get a job, buy a house, and have major surgery — which wrecks not just your bank account but also your medical records.

Take a look HERE.


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How to Work (Almost) Completely Online

In the past year, I’ve decided to simplify my computing life and my work needs by trying to work, as much as possible, with online apps and online storage. I was tired of emailing myself files between home and work computers, or uploading files to web storage and syncing them between computers, or loading them onto flash drives. I’d forget where a file was, I’d spend a lot of time transferring files and organizing things, my two computers were never completely in sync, and it was just too complicated for a minimalist like myself.

Take a look HERE.


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Cyber security market to grow 100 times in 5 years

Not long ago, one of India’s well-known banks received a complaint from a clerk that there may have been an accounting error in the charge of interest rates on overdraft accounts. The bank usually charged an interest rate of 10%, but on a few accounts, the charge was just 5%. The firm checked the 259 programs that the bank used and found in the systems nine more that were not in the official list of software.

Take a look HERE.

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Top five products that never made it to release

Not sure if the Foleo wasn't the biggest product ever to be pulled before it had even been pushed out but it certainly wasn't the first ballyhooed Next Big Thing never to reach store shelves. Of course, lots of products spend years in vapour but usually they make it out the door in the end. Here are five that didn't.

Take a look HERE.


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Set up a Web server cluster in 5 easy steps

Spreading a workload across multiple processors, coupled with various software recovery techniques, provides a highly available environment and enhances overall RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) of the environment. Benefits include faster recovery from unplanned outages, as well as minimal effects of planned outages on the end user.

To get the most out of this article, you should be familiar with Linux and basic networking, and you should have Apache servers already configured. Our examples are based on standard SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) installations, but savvy users of other distributions should be able to adapt the methods shown here.

Take a look HERE.


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Implement IPSec on Windows Server 2003

In this, the latest installment in our series of Windows Server 2003 administration tutorials, we'll take a look at the process of implementing IPSec on a Windows Server 2003 system. We'll also look at some of the procedures you need to be aware of when performing this implementation on a live network.

Read the article HERE.

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