Security
Windows Without Admin Rights
It’s normal for Microsoft to transition their corporate environment to the latest and greatest software, especially as they transition towards RTM (release to manufacturing). However, it was quite interesting to hear that Microsoft is considering revoking local admin-rights during the Vista company-wide rollout.
We haven’t made that final determination yet. We would like to absolutely look [...]
DD-WRT v23 SP1 Released Today
DD-WRT is a free firmware for several wireless routers, most notably the Linksys WRT54G.
DD-WRT is maintained by BrainSlayer at dd-wrt.com. DD-WRT up to v22 was based on the Alchemy firmware from Sveasoft, which was based on the original Linksys firmware. Among other features not found in the original Linksys firmware, DD-WRT adds the Kai [...]
Secure your Passwords Easily with Password Safe
Password Safe is a free and open source program that allows you to use a unique password for all your accounts, without actually having to remember all those username and password combinations. The program is a single binary/exe that requires no installation, which makes it highly portable and conveinent, and runs on all various flavors [...]
Looking at Vista’s User Account Control
I blogged ever so briefly about Vista’s new User Account Control before and what it will mean to users in its current form so I’m quite happy to find that ZDNet is experiencing the same type of mind-numbing annoyances with UAC as I.
It’s clear that Microsoft is attempting to instill safe practices to it’s userbase; [...]
Configure your own free VPN with Hamachi
Hamachi is a program that enables you to quickly configure a secure private network between computers over the traditionally insecure Internet. At it’s core, this slick solution allows you to access your computers remotely (over VNC or RDP), safe Windows File Sharing, play LAN games, or deploy inherently private Web or FTP servers. Essentially it [...]
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