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Archive for February, 2008

Improve your vision and reduce computer eye strain

Here’s an excellent article on Reader’s Digest‘s website chronicling 24 ways to improve your vision; thus, preventing computer eye strain.

Comcast pays Americans to oppose net neutrality

“Comcast is now paying Americans to believe in deceptive ISPs.” This is just low…no wonder why the economy is falling, mistrust is more prevalent, and morale overall is down in the U.S.  Just read Comcast spokesman Charlie Douglas’s statement: “As is common practice in Washington, we did pay a few people to stand in line [...]

Microsoft virtual launch

You can check out the virtual launch for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 here. You never know…Steve Ballmer may have another “developers, developers, developers” sweaty-armpit-speech. And why it’s called Heroes Happen Here, I don’t know. It’s worth looking into though.

Cold Boot encryption memory hack

I read an article wherein researchers from Princeton University cooled down memory to -58 degrees F which allowed them to examine the encrypted contents of the memory for as long as 10 minutes.  Microsoft, however, says its unlikely.  To be clear, encrypted data here is data that gets encrypted by apps like Vista’s BitLocker or [...]

Create your own cross-platform backup server

Here’s an interesting read and how-to on LifeHacker.com showing you how to build a backup server that supports multiple OSes using Restore, which is open source and one that features a web admin-like page for backup management.