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Submission + - PGP is 15 years old

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @05:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: PGP Corporation salutes the 15th anniversary of PGP encryption technology. Developed and released in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann, Pretty Good Privacy 1.0 set the standard for safe, accessible technology to protect and share online information.

Submission + - How to Buy a 65" Plasma TV for $.99

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on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @04:13PM

An anonymous reader writes: Think your website is secure? Think again. Many hosting companies still provide their clients with older, insecure shopping carts. Hacking these carts is trivial, even though Visa and Verisign call them "secure." This article discusses common vulnerabilities in many shopping carts. Check your site before the Christmas rush begins.

Submission + - IOmega Backup software fails to recover files

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @04:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: If you back up your files using IOmega, you might think your data is safely secured. But if you happen to choose to compress the backup files (i.e. the default) option, your data will be saved into a format which can't be uncompressed without a configuration file that's stored on your primary HD (i.e. the one that just crashed). You can read about this on IOmega's customer support forum:

http://www.iomegasupportforums.com/phpbb2/viewtopi c.php?t=2453&highlight=recover

I've included the first exchange because I think they will probably remove this thread if it gets too much notice. First, the desperate customer:

"I have my entire hard drive backed up to an external hard drive using Iomega Automatic Backup Pro. Just a few days ago my hard drive crashed, had to get a new hard drive. When I go to recover my files it cant find the configuration files. I did some research and very very oddly....the files required to retrieve my backup were on the hard drive that was backed up and now crashed. Defeating the entire purpose of a backup software. What can I do now to recover my files since the configuration files were destride on the origional drive? Please help!"

Now, the not-so-helpful (nor literate) tech-support:

"If you backed up your files using IAB pro with the compress option. If you moved any of the files on the drive or off the drive then there isn't a way to recover the files. Next time you do a backup make sure you are not compressing the files.

Did you move any of the files on the drive where you backed up the files to?"

Submission + - OpenSSH Server Ported to Windows CE

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @04:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: WindowsForDevices is reporting that the OpenSSH server has been ported to Windows CE, enabling secure remote access to a Windows CE-based device using the SSH (secure shell) protocol. It's currently released at version 0.0.1, under a BSD-style license, and is available in source and binary form on Microsoft's Codeplex, SourceForge-like code sharing website.

Submission + - Google sponsors LinuxBIOS project

Submitted by coresystems on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @03:27PM

coresystems writes: Stefan Reinauer from coresystems GmbH announced in his posting to the Google Code Blog that Google is sponsoring LinuxBIOS development.

The sponsoring includes the creation of an automated distributed firmware testing environment for LinuxBIOS.

Thanks to the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC), LinuxBIOS developers expect the project to break the barrier of 10 million users out there in 2007, said Stefan Reinauer.

Babylon 5 Direct-To-DVD Project In Production 194

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 14, 2006 @01:36PM from the dvd-movies-are-three-edged-swords dept.

ajs writes "As previously announced, 'Babylon 5: The Lost Tales' is a direct-to-DVD project based on the popular series from the mid-1990s. Lost Tales first DVD, titled 'Voices of the Dark' has now begun production. As usual, J. Michael Straczynski and Doug Netter will be running the show with Straczynski directing. The characters, President John Sheridan (Boxleitner), Captain Elizabeth Lochley (Scoggins) and the technomage Galen (Woodward) are returning. The Lost Tales is an anthology series of sorts with two movies (previously three) per DVD starting in 2007. Straczynski has commented on Usenet that a more CG-intensive installment is coming in the next batch, featuring the character of Michael Garibaldi (Doyle)."

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