AVSIM.COM was launched in 1996. In one hack, they have lost everything from then to now. Why did this happen? The owner said they did backups but in the form of mirroring two servers. When the hackers took over both servers, it destroyed this system of backup. In this case an offsite or even OFFLINE backup would have sufficed.
Removable hard drives, DVDs, even old tape backup can’t be compromised over the internet.
I’m sure they’ll have full community support to get those lost 13 years back.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8049780.stm
Here’s some first look at the blackberry storm TWO. From what I can tell it looks just like the first one with the exception of the now touch screen talk buttons. I hope they improve the software.
Intel has been hit with a 1.45 billion (Billion!) dollar fine for antitrust ruling in Europe. That total is much more than Microsoft’s 497 million filed a few years ago. They have like three months to pay up. I’d hate to be the one writing that check. Who do you make it out to? If I was Europe, I’d say make it out to Coalition for Adequate School Housing…C.A.S.H. for short. >:-)
I’m sure there will be an appeals. What do you charge as a law firm for reversing such a ruling?
What is DEP? DEP is Data Execution Prevention. It can be hardware or software based. What it does is keeps programs from accessing parts of memory that it does not have access to. This is very important nowadays in browsers where the majority of malicious attacks comes from.
The Fast way….
1. run command prompt as adminstrator
2. type in ‘bcdedit /set nx AlwaysOff’
3. to renable, do ‘bcdedit /set nx OptIn’
The Easy way….
1. right click on ‘my computer’ and go to ‘settings’
2. go to the ‘advanced Tab’
3. from here go to the ‘settings button’
4. click on the 3rd tab
5. from here you can turn it on for all program, or ones that you select.
Conclusion….
It is a good idea to keep it running. There are some cases where a program has already interfered with your system and the need arises for disabling it.
If you have ever gotten rid of a spyware or messed around with a firewall application and lost connection to the internet due to some winsock error, this tool is for you.
It is called winsock xp fix 1.2
BACKGROUND
If you’re wondering why I’m talking about the thing that tell airplanes what speed and direction the wind is blowing, you’re not alone. Winsock is simply a shortened name for windows socket api which tells how windows networks should access the networks services. In the internet age, the specific service we’re interested in is TCP/IP. TCP/IP is the set of communications protocols that the internet need to talk from one computer to another.
When I was still working on windows 98 and early versions of XP, I devised my own quick and dirty way of fixing winsock errors.
SOLUTION
I simply deleted winsock.dll , wsock32.dll, and wsock32n.dll in the /windows directory. Then I typed in ‘regedit’ in the run command box and navigated to hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\services\winsock2 and deleted everything in that branch.
What this did was made windows restore those files in the next boot-up to their default settings which incidentally fixed any errors that it may have incurred.
Again the site to get the winsock fix program is:
http://majorgeeks.com/download4372.html
