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I just love the way how Macromedia Flash has envolved on the internet, from stupid flash animations, cartoons, short animated movies to streaming video and audio. Check this site out, taking Flash to the next level. Streaming Audio all day long !
http://www.pandora.com
Enter your favourite artist or song and it will discover and stream music to you ! Now I can dump all my internet radio stations. 🙂
I have a problem which most of us are facing.
How many usernames and passwords are you keeping track of ? Or even the email address that you used to create that account with ? Admit it, most of us have more than 1 email address. 🙂
So how do you keep track of them ? Save into a spreadsheet ? Are they secured ? Most spreadsheets built-in protection are not good enough.
I was looking for a host uptime tracking service and I found Host-Tracker. http://host-tracker.com/
Now I can track my site uptime and the sampling time can be set at every 1 min ! Most other free services offer 15mins to 30mins which is just not good enough.
Will companies use a system like ISMS to ensure that they are meeting with ISO17799, BS7799 compliance for Information Security ?
ISMS in short, Information Security Management System
ISMS, detailed documentation on controls, threats, vulnerabilities.
Any book to recommend or document templates samples for an inspiring Security Auditor ? :p
When I plugged in my USB harddisk to my PC, to my horror, I started to hear some kind of clicking sound and the harddisk is trying to spin up and stop repeatively.
So I looked at my system’s dmesg messages and realised my HDD is a goner. My OS is unable to mount the vfat partition.
Remove the 2.5in harddisk from my USB casing and connected it back into my IBM X21, inserted an Ubuntu 5.10 LiveCD. Once Gnome desktop came up, I tried to mount the partition again, this time is successful !
I managed to save most of my data except 2 ISO files which I suspected they are residing on the harddisk bad sectors. I ran the harddisk diagnostic tool, guess what, bad blocks were detected.
Googled around and found a site with most of the different harddisk vendors’ Low Level Formatting tools. At the same time, I decided to “nuke” my harddisk.
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