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Entries from June 2008

Where the Hell Is Matt?

June 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Check out this video and ask yourself why we let our governments kill everyone.

via Daniel Miessler

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Tags: Humanity

IBM Typo

June 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Funny IBM typo typo. Can’t remember what page I saw this on but it was last week.

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Tags: Fail

Accessing the Menu Bar in OS X

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Someone told me once that they didn’t like using a Mac because it doesn’t have enough keyboard shortcuts built in. For example, how do you access the menu bar without using your mouse? On Windows, you use the alt key to access any menu item. In OS X, you just need to [...]

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Tags: Mac · Windows

Spend a month using OS X exclusively

June 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Daniel challenges you to spend a month using OS X exclusively and see if it’s not much better than Windows. Too bad there isn’t a try-and-buy program to let people actually do this without risking any money. Absent of that, we are left to testimonials by current owners (fanboys) and marketing.

In 2006, I [...]

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Tags: Mac

FAIR Risk Webinar for Cisco

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Jack Jones of RMI will be doing a preso for the Cisco InfoSec Leadership Forum. I would love to see this but I’ll be on vacation. Maybe I’ll catch the replay if they have one. You can sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/5wgh2s

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Tags: Risk Management

Blue Coat Likely Dumping iShared

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

iShared, the nifty little WAFS product that Packeteer got when they bought Tacit Networks a couple years back, will likely be dropped by Blue Coat from what I have heard. Blue Coat mentioned that they planned on rejuvenating Packetshaper as a standalone product as well as integrating some Packetshaper technologies into the ProxySG appliances. [...]

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Tags: Blue Coat · Packeteer · Riverbed

Too Stupid to Use Spaces

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Fortune Small Business published this drivel in response to a serious question: Is it time to consider moving your small business to Macs?

Their answer: it makes sense for maybe 20 companies out of 100, up from just 5 a few years back.

Here are the reasons Macs won’t work for your small business:

The slogan “Designed by [...]

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Tags: Apple · Mac · Productivity · Vista