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Australians: Check your Enrolment, And Vote.
Yo. Australian Citizens. Apropos of our sudden change of Prime Minister to Julia Gillard, and the fact that we'll have a federal election within the year, go check your electoral enrolment at https://oevf.aec.gov.au/, and please vote ( Read more... ) -
Swing Dancing: Jedi Jack and Jill...
I don't normally do linkspam here, but this is worth posting. :-)
One of my regular swing dancing venues held a Jedi Jack and Jill swing dancing competition last night, starring a number of the local teachers. For those not in the know, a Jack and Jill competition is where you line up and have randomly selected partners... Then you have to swing ( Read more... ) -
Computer Security Alerts for End Users - Be Alert, Not Alarmed.
If you use a computing device that is not maintained by a corporate IT department, you need to know that your device is likely vulnerable to security issues. It doesn't matter whether it's a Mac, a Windows PC, a Nokia Phone, an iPhone/iPad, an Android phone, a Windows Mobile, a Linux laptop, an XBox or Playstation, all computing devices have ( Read more... ) -
#openinternet - a bit of a technical description of the problem
TLDR version
Most Internet traffic is not encrypted at the moment. It is trivial in cost and setup to use some form of encryption on all Internet traffic, which means that any Internet filtering solution will be unable to inspect that traffic and block sites ( Read more... ) -
Windows "Security/Reliability". Seriously, stop paying for Microsoft stuff already.
Microsoft .NET Remote Code Execution exploit
Similar class of problem as last time with the TCP/IP thing:
From: http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=11798&template=1
AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ( Read more... ) -
LJ -> DW, got some more invite codes
I Dumped LJ a little while ago. I got a bunch more invite codes for dreamwidth, drop me a line if you want one.
ETA: If you're coming from LJ, log in using DW OpenID Help then you can comment.
Post lives at http://thorfinn.dreamwidth.org/48732.html (
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Usability: Corporate Price Point vs Consumer Price Point
I bought a Drobo, and configured and formatted it last night. Copied the data from my previous external storage disk (which was failing with block errors). Plugged it into the back of the Airport Extreme, and voila, it's just working. Time Machine is happily grinding away doing its thing, and it's very nice knowing that we have 3TB of raid ( Read more... ) -
Security again, LJ vs DW
LJ-news: Media embedding change - important notice
DW-maintenance: LJ web security exploit
In short, LJ had a "cross site scripting hack" which infected a bunch of people's accounts. Check the LJ news post and verify you're okay if you're on LJ.
However, Dreamwidth wasn't vulnerable.
Yet another reason to Dump LJ in favour of DreamwidthETA: If ( Read more... )
