Well time to bite the bullet. My favorite podcasters (http://www.freetalklive.com) have completely lost their technical mind imho and are now producing one fat, but still free, podcast for each three hour show. Now, you may or may not know but to fast forward my rca lyra mp3 player is a pia. Soooo, I have to bite the bullet and figure out how to split their mp3 into fragments. Argh. Cheaply and easily goes without saying. I wonder if that music player software I bought in moment of weakenss can do this. Hmmm.
a technology rant
Sunday, February 5, 2006i arose this morning form troubled sleep with visions of my writing dancing in my head. so i lept to key board, all ready to write. but first we have daily work to get out the way. my mail, my libertarian week of poddies to dl, check azureus, do reinke ramblings. Then to writing. ARGHHH! I was well underway to getting that all done when my net connect developed a balkiness. no browser could connect. no dns. couldn’t ping yahoo. so, dump the power at the cable modem and get out vzwbbie. power down the laptop to insert the pcmia card (i bought it to i’m VERY careful about it) bring the whole shebang back up. and guess what, yup you guessed it, my cable connect pops back and says ‘where have you been’ ARGH, ARGG! so i have just lost the better part of one of my creative hours for who knows what reason! argh, argh, argh!
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Using different email addresses … …
Saturday, February 4, 2006… … to stop phishing, to track results, and to authenticate correspondents.
I was moved to write to a national technology figure about phishing. She was recommending a tool to authenticate websites and prevent phishing. I think I came up with a way to handle it awhile ago. Zero cost , of course. And easy to implement. Here’s my note, which I then put on a job search site I like.
WRT: Phishing
A while ago, before Yahoo came up with Address Guard, before GMAIL made extra email addresses commonplace, I focused on the idea of using different email addresses for different purposes. One specific email address for financial traffic, another for orders, and others for topical use. Thus when phishes came in on ANY of the non-financial email, they were so obvious there was no doubt.
Now with Address Guard, a yahoo subscriber can assign each correspondent their “own” email address. For free, a GMAIL user can accomplish the same thing with either multiple free gmail accounts or that new plus feature. So for a user at any level to be phished now days is kind of hard to believe.
In fact, it is so easy to assign different email address to different correspondents, that I have been doing it for other purposes. When you throw in the ability to manage email traffic by rules in most email packages, it really serves to “authenticate” email traffic is “good” stuff.
It even helps with plain old spam. For example, if some things comes in on a non-assigned email address, it stands a high probability of being spam.
Until we get to ipv6 and absolutely authentic email verification, this can serve to minimize the risk of being fooled.
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PERSPECTIVE: using it
Friday, February 3, 2006It is a neat tool. I have started to use it for collecting my thoughts and organizing multi-step projects.
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Using Perspective the wiki I installed
Friday, February 3, 2006Well, it is exciting. I actually figured out how to logon to my wiki. Create another user. Write a document, but haven’t figured out how to link it or put it anywhere but the sand box. But I’m getting there. So ends today’s 30 minute creativity session.
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SOFTWARE: FREEMIND to get your thinking organized!
Thursday, February 2, 2006
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
FreeMind is a FREE mind-mapping program. A mind map is a diagram used for linking ideas to a central key idea. It is used to visualize, classify, structure, and generate ideas, as well as an aid in study, problem solving, and in making decisions.
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TECHNOLOGY: Perspective … … a desktop wiki
Thursday, February 2, 2006http://www.high-beyond.com/perspective.aspx?action=view&page=perspective.Welcome
I have been fascinated with hypertext since I first played with it in the 70s. The wiki is in my mind the logical follow on to that. Deploying one that is wholy contained on my notebook is just neat. This will allow me to demonstrate it. And, use it. From a technology perspective it was a little ugly. I spent a few hours punding on the keyboard to make it work. But, by following the docs, I did it.
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Every copy of XP comes with IIS inboard
Thursday, February 2, 2006Today for fun, I actually figured out how to serve webpages from my notebook. Now it really only works when I am not behind protective walls. So, my Verizon Wireless Broadband is such a situation. So, I went over to DynDns and signed up for one of their free dynamic dns entries. That gives you a “domain name” hung off their main domain name. And, it has a little client that updates from time to time as necessary. So bingo, pop that name into a webpage, and it resioves to the webpage on my notebook.
Now I don’t know why I’ll need it. But, I have the capability should I figure out how to exploit it. Ask if you have questions.
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TECHNOLOGY data encryption protection
Wednesday, February 1, 2006METHODOLOGY ***
STRATEGY ***
TACTICS ***
TECHNOLOGY data encryption protection
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Dear fellow turkey,
http://www.truecrypt.org/
In these days of bad things happening to good people, I would like to recommend that everyone who uses a keyboard think about what happens if … …
… … some one steals, repossesses, or otherwise removes from your control the computer you use. It can be your working desktop in your office. It can be your employer’s notebook that they have “loaned” you for the term of your employment. It can be your personal desktop at home. It can be your personal notebook that you lug around with you. Or, if you’re like me, it could be anyone of a number of computers that you touch in a day’s time.
Clearly, if some one steals your employer’s property, then it would be nice if there wasn’t much they could do with it. [You obviously wouldn’t make the mistake of keeping anything personal on something you don’t own! Would you?]
Clearly, if some one steals your personal property, then it would be nice if there wasn’t much that they could do with it. [You obviously wouldn’t make the mistake of keeping anything of your employers on something he isn’t paying for! Would you?]
Now here we have an interesting requirement. For different reasons, we want a computer to be as useful as a brick if it falls into the wrong hands. Change of employment status is just one reason why you might want to sanitize a computer before it embarrass you.
Never fear, the big turkey is here, with a solution, that is, of course, free.
So think about the opportunity and consider taking this baby out for a spin. I always recommend good backups whenever one plays with encryption. But, it definitely can make you sleep just a bit easier when things go south.
FWIW, your mileage may vary, all free advice is just that,
Fjohn
yet another fellow turkey
just bigger and dumber
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Realization: “Free” ain’t so free
Tuesday, January 31, 2006With the site failure, from my pov, over at preople, which “lost” my ramblings over the last few weeks, I realize that I can’t “afford” free services. Especially free services that cause me to “invest” my time with them. I have to think in terms of ROI for all technologies. It’s real easy to get in, but hard to exit, and most hard when you get thrown out on your ear. Additionally, maybe some of my ramblings are just for me. Hmmmm
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