I just bought a used iMac and am frustrated to find that it identifies itself as “Susie’s Q” on the network. Since I’m not Susie - and never have been! - I really want to change this. How do I change my iMac’s name in Mac OS X on the network?
I’ve just come across a link that describes how to enable tethering on the iPhone 3G using the 3.0 software update that was released yesterday. Most of the guides I found seemed a bit complex and involved messing around in the Terminal - something that a lot of users find intimidating. But then I came across the following link (which you should access directly from your iPhone’s web browser):
The increase in social networking and mobility trends is presenting challenges to companies’ network security, disaster planning and business continuity, according to a new study from AT&T.
Two-thirds (65%) of all executives plan on investing in new technologies in 2009. Investment will be focused on new equipment, a variety of software, storage and security updates.
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If you are running a Simple Machines Forum, there is a new hack making the rounds, and it is enough to turn your forum into something you no longer control. The hack first showed up May 01 2009, and has been gaining steam over the last couple of days. If you run the software, make sure you follow the cleaning instructions. Read More…
I started to consider the reasons why open source vendors select the GPL after ESR wrote:
“The GPL may be a community-building signaling device, but it is also a confession of fear and weakness. To believe that it matters, you have to believe that you live in a Type A universe where closed-source development is such an attractive proposition that you have to punish people for trying to move to it.”
‘P2P is a demand signal from the market,’ says Cory Doctorow. If that’s the case, what are we to make of The Pirate Bay conviction last week? For those who don’t know, Pirate Bay is one of the world’s largest Bittorrent search engines. It allows people to search through the gazillions of TV shows, films and other entertainment that sit on the web.
Just finishing up the final touches on my first big cloud computing project, and there was much to learn here, some pitfalls and some promises in the cloud that might help you with your cloud computing project.
Bandit Defense has posted a new Wordpress hack, but there are some things you need to know about first. The biggest one is that it relies on poor security at the hosting company, and already knowing the password to the Wordpress website you want to hack.
Steve Hodson from Win Extra quite rightly asks what we can do in the face of restrictive or repressive internet social media. The good thing is that this is an easy question to answer, because humans have been working their way around authority since we began. Not everyone is a fan of authority, and the internet makes it very easy to bypass internet restrictions.
Hacking is a major problem that is increasing day by day. The Internet world is flocked with hundreds of, infact of thousands of anti hacking software but their effectiveness is still in question! In a recent post at Google’s Webmaster Central blog, Search Quality Team of Google talks about two most common attacks resulting in hijacked websites: SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS).