Koos - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Recycle them (Score 1) 546

by Koos on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @05:52AM (#27147791) Attached to: What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives?

Securely wipe them if you must

Securely wipe them even if you intend to store them for a while until you get better use for them or will throw them away. It's boring work, but you're making sure no private data gets out. Even a simple operating system installation has a store of encrypted passwords which can be abused.

Submission + - Spying on the TOR anonymisation network (heise-security.co.uk)

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juct

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @11:41AM

juct writes: "The long standing suspicion, that the anonymizing network TOR is (ab)used to catch sensitive data by Chinese, Russian and American government agencies as well as hacking groups gets new support. Members of the Teamfurry community found TOR exit-nodes which only forward unencrypted versions of certain protocols. These peculiar configurations invite speculation as to why they are set up in this way. Another tor exit node has been caught doing MITM attacks using fake SSL certificates."

Verizon vs. the Needham Fire Department 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @08:35AM from the never-had-that-problem-before dept.

netbuzz writes "At issue is whether — or not — there was a minor fire in a house on Pine Grove Street in Needham, Mass., caused by a Verizon employee drilling through an electrical main. Everyone agrees that whatever happened — or didn't happen — was indeed the fault of the Verizon employee; it's "fire or no fire" that is at issue. Verizon says no fire, not even smoke. The Needham Fire Department begs to differ. New eye-witness reports are emerging ... and it's not looking good for Verizon."

Submission + - Reading lists mined from Wikipedia

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holy_calamity

on Tuesday January 02, 2007 @08:28AM

holy_calamity writes: "A Harvard PhD student has come up with a way to automatically generate lists of reading material from Wikipedia. His algorithm analyses the structure of links between Wikipedia pages to produce a list of entries to make you an instant well-rounded expert on any given subject. A portable version runs on an iPod — perfect for brushing up on, say, the history of art, on the way to a date. He's using it to teach Harvard undergrads physics."

Submission + - Christmas is a busy time for avoiding work

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coondoggie

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @10:35AM

coondoggie writes: "Work productivity notoriously dips during the winter holiday season but a survey to be released Tuesday suggests that employee productivity takes a nosedive for an entire month surrounding Christmas. Whether it's due to laziness, vacation time or other factors, productivity begins dropping during the two-week period before Christmas, according to a survey of computer usage by Arlington, Mass., Glance Networks, a maker of Web demos software. Based on past trends, productivity will begin its annual pre-Christmas drop this week, said Rich Baker, founder and CEO of the company. "It's striking," Baker said in a phone interview. "We looked at the last three years and the trends were almost identical year to year ... [Employees are] not doing as much business-oriented work." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/121106-slack ing-off.html"

Submission + - Real Time Radar Weather

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Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @10:22AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Great way to view Real Time NEXRAD radar data from the National Weather Service. This service provides users a way to input their home address and see nearby storms. Link"

Submission + - Dutch analog television over the air stopped

Submitted by

Koos

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @09:59AM

Koos writes: "In the night between 10 and 11 December 2006, the terrestrial analogue TV transmitters for the Netherlands were switched off, and digital (DVB-T) transmitters took over (page in Dutch!).

For 55 years analogue over-the-air television was available in the Netherlands (history page in Dutch!). The switch to digital was prompted by European regulations pushing the switch to digital and because of the running costs of the high-power VHF and UHF transmitters. The Netherlands was the first country to end analogue terrestrial television broadcast.

About 74000 to 200000 (estimates differ) households depend on terrestrial broadcast for receiving television. In this densely populated country cable tv is available almost everywhere. Satellite receivers are used a lot by people wanting more channels.

The interesting part about the switch was that the same channels used by the old analogue transmitters were going to be occupied by the DVB-T transmitters, so very little testing for correct reach and signal could be done before the switch. Some tests with DVB-T were seen in the previous weeks. DVB-T was available already in the 'Randstad' (area in the west of the country, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and all the cities in between) but transmitters closer to our borders have to be set up not to interfere with German and Belgium transmitters."

Submission + - screen: Keep Your Processes Running

Submitted by

hausmasta

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @07:28AM

hausmasta writes: "I guess you all know this: you are connected to your server with SSH and in the middle of compiling some software (e.g. a new kernel) or doing some other task which takes lots of time, and suddenly your connection drops for some reason, and you lose your labour. This can be very annoying, but fortunately there is a small utility called screen which lets you reattach to a previous session so that you can finish your task. This short tutorial shows how to use screen for just this purpose.

http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_screen"

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