Posts tagged “security”

Outlook Pain

Q. Is there any way to work around the Outlook security update? A. Way One Way Two Way Three

Protect Yourself

Here is a must-read: 7 ways to protect your home PC link via What’s On It For Me?

Passwords

I recently changed my SHELL / FTP passwords at DreamHost because of the little Blogger security breach. (I don’t use Blogger any longer, but I thought I’d be on the safe side.) Customer Support sent me the following message: After looking further into your account it was discovered that you only changed one character between

A Bear Suit

To some, Hurtubise is a cult hero. He’s burned through more than $100,000 and gone bankrupt building a 150-pound protective suit of titanium, plastic, chain mail, galvanized steel, rubber and thousands of feet of duct tape. To test his invention, Hurtubise has been run over by a truck, hit by a moving car, smashed in

FBI Warning

Saying it has received information that new terrorist attacks may be planned inside the United States or abroad in the next several days, the FBI on Thursday asked local police to be on the highest alert and urged all Americans to be wary of suspicious activity. Y’know. Just in case you were feeling comfortable or

Military Technology and Digital Piracy

Can ‘Military’ Technology Beat Digital Piracy? ” … if the hacker persists, and continues making ”aggressive” attempts to disable InTether’s defenses or pierce its vault, he’ll get ”the white screen of death.” His InTether receiver, together with all the InTethered files stored inside it, will be destroyed. Attacks ”would have to be pretty aggressive and

Page Blocking

I find it incredibly amusing that my company’s proxy server prohibits me from visiting swoon.com, an astrology site, but has no problem letting me browse All About My Vagina.

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.