I just downloaded a 1.5 MB .exe file from Microsoft to validate my many-times-validated copy of XP SP2, so that I could download a 524KB hotfix because the geniuses who programmed SP2 didn’t have enough imagination to consider that SD cards might someday hold more than 4GB.
And Microsoft thinks we ought to just roll over […]
“Most disk-encryption systems can be defeated if the computer is stolen or accessed while it is in sleep mode or in a password-protected screen saver,” Felten wrote. Vista’s BitLocker “is also sometimes vulnerable even when the computer is completely off.”
Cold-Boot Attack Can Crack Disk Encryption @ Sci-Tech Today
For those of you who’ve been wondering where you could put a free blog that will accept all those photographs from your vacation in Patagonia — and Antarctica — and Africa — and China — and… — you need look no further. As of Monday, WordPress is offering 3 Gigabytes of free storage for all […]
Alex Madrigal at Wired Science reports that
Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. Wired Science from Wired.com
The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives. Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, […]
Google is preparing a service that would let users store on its computers essentially all of the files they might keep on their personal-computer hard drives — such as word-processing documents, digital music, video clips and images, say people familiar with the matter. The service could let users access their files via the Internet from […]
Keeping a few family photos in your wallet, of course, is a requisite of parenthood. But it’s also a duty that requires a degree of organization, as in remembering to swap out pics as the kids grow older.
To say nothing of the fact that those prints start to look fairly shabby over time. Isn’t that […]
I publish this link with no comment. The writer has gone to some lengths to determine the services available from the links he provides. There are, of course, any number of ways to save material on the Web, some safer than others, some more likely to make it through industry upheavals than others, and so […]
