Do the receptionists know how secure your facility is? Is it necessary to track everyone entering and exiting your facility? Today an even stranger event occurred. I received a call from “reception” stating that there was a visitor for me. Upon arriving at the departmental reception desk there were no visitors and they had not […]
John Weathington lightly outlines DMAIC and how to apply it to a consulting practice. Now we’ll look at the more popular and established Six Sigma application called DMAIC Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control, which is the formula for improving any process. Like DMADV, DMAIC is a structured sequence that we’ll follow to improve our consulting […]
If you’ve now using or about to begin switching to Windows 7, Robert Shimonski has written a fairly in-depth overview of Windows 7’s security capabilities, and how to harden the OS, including manual tuning and the usage of security templates from Microsoft. Regardless of which version of OS you are running, this is a good […]
I ran into an interesting problem yesterday, and by “interesting” I mean really annoying and made me curse Microsoft repeatedly, again and again. An old home PC has been having video problems off and on for several years: It’d show an argyle-style print superimposed over whatever was on the screen. Rebooting would sometimes fix it, […]
I recently read a blog posting that denounced the use of sudo as insecure because of the following (briefly summed up and paraphrased) reasons: 1. The idea that not using the root account is wrong, using root for everything is fine. 2. That using sudo for everything provides a false sense of security over performing […]
This build took a lot of headscratching and research, as I couldn’t easily find any single resource describing how to do the build, and KeePassX requires quite a bit of pre-work before it will build. Starting from a fresh CD install of 2009.06 Hit http://www.keepassx.org/downloads to download the current source code tarball. I got 0.4.3. […]
After a constantly recurring conflict between Ubuntu and my desktop’s nVidia card, I decided to switch operating systems. OpenSolaris has nice, built-in support for nVidia, so I decided to give it a try. I used Solaris for close to a decade at Cisco, and it’s still one of my favorite OSs. First, I went to […]
For the hardcore X11-style mouse & window lovers: X11 is better for fingers. Copy with mouse. Paste with mouse. Focus without clicks. Raise and lower windows. So called X-Mouse. One and only… True X-Mouse Gizmo. It seems to work pretty good! Now my XP behaves how I expect it to after spending so much time […]
While reading an otherwise unrelated article on Cloud Computing (Does the Fourth Amendment cover ‘the cloud’? | The Wisdom of Clouds – CNET News), I stumbled across this paragraph (emphasis mine): I’ve reported on this early legal landscape a couple of times, looking at decisions to relax expectations of privacy for e-mail stored online and […]
Here’s something to be aware of if you’re running a Postfix (or possibly any mailserver), use Spamhaus, and are considering or have switched to Google DNS: 1. Spamhaus has banned Google Public DNS resolver queries. I didn’t know this until today. If Postfix is using Google Public DNS resolvers, rbl queries to zen.spamhaus.org fail but […]
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