Steve Gibson of GRC fame spits out another useful tool: It simply displays if some newer hardware features are available on your PC. The screen-shot is verification that the 64bit PC I built almost three years does support DEP. DEP: Prevents buffer overflows in hardware – this a very big deal. Of course the operation [...]
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When re-hosting this blog I decided to go with an engine that published plain-jane html. The main reasons are: . Simplicity of hosting . Speed of pages to appear (i.e. no ASP.Net engine to ‘warm up’) . Should be simple to migrate to another engine in the future Unfortunately I decided that Linux is a [...]
Episode nine of Steve Gibson’s Security Now podcast covered Rootkits – I thought I knew what a root kit is but was wrong. As always Steve’s podcast starts out very basic, but the latter half generally has a few nuggets for more technical peeps . This week is no exception, I learned that to be [...]
Boring post I know: Today I used an Acer AL1914 19″ LCD Monitor with a DVI compatible video card (it was purchased for those contracts where contractors are provided whatever hardware was about to be sat on the curb). The difference is night and day – as one may expect you loose controls to set [...]
A new build of VS.Net 2005 is there for all us MSDN Subscribers. Kudos goes to Wallace: http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2004/12/14/300212.aspx We have DVDs of the last Beta 1 release to give away at Monday’s http://www.atlantamobility.net/ meeting. A few members have complained that they cannot develop mobile apps without buying an expensive version of VS.Net 2003 – if [...]
