Iron Wil

In the United States, Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Congress approved the wording of the Declaration on July 4 and then sent it to the printer. Whether John Hancock, as the elected President of the Second Continental Congress, or anyone else signed the document that day is unknown, because that document has been lost — presumably destroyed in the printing process.^[1] Hancock’s name and that of a witness do appear on the typeset broadside that was published within a few days. On August 2 in the following month, an engrossed document in script form^[2] was signed by Hancock and other delegates.

Independence Day is commonly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, picnics, baseball games, and various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States, but is often also viewed as simply a summer festival, apart from its patriotic overtones.

read more at Wikipedia . . .

and have a safe and firework filled holiday.

iron wil

Issue #14

This month, we’re proud to introduce a new column, Command and Conquer. We’ll be taking a look at the command line and hopefully how to make it a little less scary for you.

Other stuff:

• How-To : Create an Ubuntu Plug ‘n’ Play Zone, Create Your Own Server Part 6, Using GIMP Part 3 and Put Photos on your iPod.
• Command and Conquer - Man pages, and what not to type.
• My Opinion - Excited About Ubuntu in South East India
• MOTU Interview - Soren Hansen
• Our usual: Letters, Q & A, My Desktop, Top 5, and more!

Issue 17 (July 2008)

• Open redirect vulnerabilities: definition and prevention
• The future of security is information-centric
• Securing the enterprise data flow against advanced attacks
• Bypassing and enhancing live behavioral protection
• Security flaws identification and technical risk analysis through threat modeling
• Migration from e-mail to web borne threats
• Security training and awareness: strengthening your weakest link
• Assessing risk in VoIP/UC networks
• Building a secure wireless network for under $300
• Reverse engineering software armoring
• Point security solutions are not a 4 letter word
• Corporate due diligence in India: an ICT perspective
• Hacking Second Life
• AND MORE!

get yours here.

iron wil

Bye-Bye Bill

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Gates goeth gracefully, Microsoft innovation through time, hacking your life, and more.

Topics:

• Gates leaves Microsoft full-time
• The “Gates and innovation” game
• Lifehacker: Hacking your life, and “Upgrade Your Life: the Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better” by Gina Trapani.
• Email: The zero inbox rule
• Live Mesh

News:

• Yahoo and Microsoft, phase 3
• Hyper-V RTM
• Google Android delayed (sort of)

Vista tips of the week:

• Get (more) high-quality Vista wallpapers
• How to Make Windows Vista boot more quickly on dual-core machines was a hoax

Software of the week: John’s Background Switcher

Microsoft product timeline through 1995: Detect the Innovation

Find out more about how to avoid DVT, deep-vein thrombosis.

Audible.com books of the week: In honor of Bill Gates, “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System” by Bill Gates, “Microsoft: First Generation (Unabridged)” by Cheryl Tsang, “World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies” by Ken Auletta (previous choice), (and various Charlie Rose interviews)

Check out Paul’s blog at http://www.internet-nexus.com and the SuperSite for Windows http://winsupersite.com for more information.

get yours here.

iron wil

Listener Feedback 44

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Our regular mailbag episode with questions and comments from our listeners.

For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve’s site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6.

Audible.com book of the week: Snowcrash by Neal Stepehenson.

get yours here.

iron wil

Recently, I have heard the likes of Leo Laporte talk about Jungle Disk and Amazon’s S3 service.

I have been looking for a ‘cloud’ back-up solution that was reasonable and viable as a solution. Yes, I know that Apple has the .Mac [now MobileMe] Service for 99$ a year; however, I wanted something a cheaper and easier to use.

You can pick-up Jungle Disk for 20$ and that includes all future updates and upgrades. Once you download and install the software package you need to enter you information. Next, head over to Amazon and the AWS site and sign in with your account information and then register for the S3 services. Once you are registered you will need to collect 2 Access Keys from Amazon. The first is your Access Key and the second is Your Secret Access Key.

With both of these, you can then connect to Amazon’s S3 service. I found it easier to add one directory at a time and let the upload take it’s time. It took 3 nights for me to upload 4 folders, Documents, Sites, Library, and Downloads. I have about 3.3GB of data from my MacBook that I have put on the cloud. It isn’t much, but it is my essential stuff.

Jungle Disk does a smart back-up.  You can schedule back-ups to run daily on down to every 5 minutes. I have mine set for 6 hours. If you have application like Mail or Firefox open it will error out on files that appear to be in use by the application. The application stays open and sits in the Dock. It would make sense for a Dashboard widget or a Menu Bar status icon to allow users quick access to the application monitor. Something like Caffeine or Time Machine.

It is worth the cost, which is on Jungle Disk’s main page here.

iron wil

Note: This will work for OS X, Windows, Windows Home Server, and Linux.

Sporn

Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Wil Harris, and Harry McCracken

Whither Yang and Yahoo, little Billy Gates, XP/Vista, tweeting ice on Mars, Firefox 3, and more.

Links to all our stories are at http://del.icio.us/twit/148.

get yours here.

iron wil