At first I was stunned at just how much I liked my iPod Touch. I just wanted a replacement for my 5th gen iPod, that stopped working when it mysteriously acquired a dent in its formerly pristine stainless steel back.
It didn't take long for it to turn into my most indispensible tool. Place to eat? UrbanSpoon. Reservation? OpenTable. And the list goes on: calculators, converters, levels, action games, puzzles, wikipedia apps, ebook readers, and even a way to read books from my Safari account.
If the kid is bored... a bit of Shrek. Long flight?A pithy podcast is the trick. Can't sleep? Ambient noise generator FTW!
In short, this little glass and steel box has become utterly indispensible.
This post, of course... composed, in bed, one thumb at a time.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Securing Our Medical Infrastucture
On Friday, April 17th, InfraGard New Mexico is holding it's annual conference in Albuquerque, NM at the Hilton Garden Inn in Uptown.
The conference is titled: Securing Our Medical Infrastructure
At $175 ($125 for current InfraGard members), the all-day conference is steal!!
The speakers include Larry Pesce (from PaulDotCom), Bill Tydeman (computer crime investigator for Health and Human Services), and others.
Visit the conference site for more details on registration and sponsorship. Hope to see you there!!!
--john
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Get ready for Conficker - No April Fools Day Joke
Good news: The patch for this issue came out from Microsoft in October last year. If you had automatic updates enabled at that time, you were probably already not vulnerable.
Not so good news: I can confirm that it is set to become more active again on April 1st. On that day, if you are infected, you may notice your machine is very slow for the first six hours or so.
Worse news: Conficker is suspected to be building the largest "botnet" of computers to date. These computers are typically used to perform massive spam campaigns, launder money, host illegal or thieving web sites, or even take down computer systems of nation states (such as Estonia).
What you can do now:
1) Read the Wikipedia article on Conficker, which provides a lot of good information,
2) Download the BitDefender Conficker removal tool from http://bdtools.net/ and check/clean your computer.
Not so good news: I can confirm that it is set to become more active again on April 1st. On that day, if you are infected, you may notice your machine is very slow for the first six hours or so.
Worse news: Conficker is suspected to be building the largest "botnet" of computers to date. These computers are typically used to perform massive spam campaigns, launder money, host illegal or thieving web sites, or even take down computer systems of nation states (such as Estonia).
What you can do now:
1) Read the Wikipedia article on Conficker, which provides a lot of good information,
2) Download the BitDefender Conficker removal tool from http://bdtools.net/ and check/clean your computer.
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