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

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!

• 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

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

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.

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iron wil

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.

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

Hosts: Paul Thurrott and Leo Laporte

Firefox 3, Microsoft advertising, MSN Music, Lotus Symphony, your taskbar, and more.

Topics:

• Paul attends Celtics finals victory in Game 6
• Firefox 3 download day: 8.3 million downloads for the record
• New features: new UI, extensibility, awesomebar, library, malware protection and more.
• Microsoft hires new advertising firm
• Paul bought a new MacBook … to run Windows Vista
• MSN Music

News quickie: Lotus Symphony 1.0 released

Vista tip of the week: Master the taskbar (includes start menu and tray)

Software of the week: Twhirl

Also: Google Talk Labs Edition

Audible.com pick of the week: The Spies of Warsaw (Unabridged) by Alan Furst

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

Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

An overview of next-generation behavioral tracking and profiling systems.

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.

get yours here.

iron wil

That is crazy awesome! I know it doesn’t even crack the forced IE hold on all those office computers or the anti-tech savvy groups that are moving online everyday. I have to say that I am impressed by the numbers.

I like the look for XP and OS X. I will have to install it on Vista later, when I am back on that system. My only real complaint is that a few of my plug-ins are now busted. I look forward to having Morning Coffee, Tab Mix Plus, Adblock, and Download in Tabs working again.

get it here, and enjoy the new browser.

iron wil

proof I got mine on Download Day.