I found this device while looking for a productivity item on the internet. I don’t know how this can make you more productive at work. I guess by hiding what you’re really working on, THAT is why it makes you productive. It’s called STEALTHSWITCH and it does what it sounds like. It is a small foot peddle that once you set up in software, it will hide what you’re doing and put in its place what you SHOULD be doing. What’s funny is watching this video on their site. I found a better application for this tool. It can become a quick key for anything you want launched on your computer. You can have up to four of these together on one machine. Imagine you can have one peddle that launches a browser, one for email, one for your current project, and one to release the trap door under the chair of whoever you don’t want to talk with anymore down into the alligator pit in your basement. >:-)
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.
