I installed Windows 7 on my work laptop. I have been hearing a lot of good stuff about Windows 7 and I had to try it out. I haven’t played with Windows 7 a lot yet, but so far I really like it. The UI feels quicker than on Vista. I noticed several small improvements [...]

The Principle of Least privilege simply put requires that in a computing system every process, user, and program must be able to access only information and resources that are necessary to its job duty. The principle of least privilege was first introduced in the mid 1970′s. The book “Fault Tolerant Operating Systems” by Peter J. [...]

These two comics are a very good example of how people do not pick very good passwords. Thank you Dilbert.com Share and Enjoy:

I stummbled on this article from Peter Gutmann explaining the copy protection built into Windows Vista. The article states that Vista will down grade video and audio reproduction on protected media if Vista can not protect the media. Vista also has built in tilt bits to help protect from hacked hardware. Vista checks its hardware regularly against [...]

It has finally been released the Apple iPhone will be out in June for Cingular. The phone looks very cool and looks like it has a great user interface. I will have to play with one before I plop down my $599. I like several of the features in the iPhone: multi touch screen, random [...]

Bush Proposes Faith-BasedFirewalls for Government Computers By Brian Briggs Washington D.C.’President Bush announced that by 2008 all government computers should be protected from outside attacks by the faith-based firewall called Protection From Above (PFA) from Houston-based software developer Christisoft. “For too long we have turned to proven software companies with expertise in computer security for [...]

Kentsfield the new quad core processor will be out just in time for Christmas (ETA 11/24). Feel free to send me one. I am very suprised it is coming out shortly after the Core 2 Duo. With the release of the Core 2 Duo and the Core 2 Quadro I think Intel will be well ahead of [...]