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Phished or not, leaked passwords show lazy habits
News While researchers debate how passwords were stolen, analysis of the exposed passwords reveals some interesting trends.
Tags: E-mail servers, Spam and phishing, Data security, E-mail clients, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Phishing, ScanSafe, Malware, Password
Credit cards trapped in archaic security era
Blogs Some years back, after finishing a meal and calling for the bill, I handed my credit card to the waiter who returned soo...
Quickly delete every nth row in Excel
Techguide Susan Harkins explains how to use AutoFilter to delete specific rows in a worksheet.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Row, Column, MsgBox, Microsoft Corp., OrderID, Microsoft Word Override Word, Goto, Clear, Microsoft Excel
Google: Computer memory flakier than expected
News After studying most of its servers for more than two years, Google finds that computer memory failures are much more common than expected and debunks some other myths.
Tags: Memory, Error Rate, Google Inc., Error, Memory Module, Computer, Operating System, Envisioneering Group, University of Toronto, Error Correction Code
Use Wingdings to add graphics to Access forms and reports
Techguide You can insert a symbol or picture into a form or report, but embedded graphics consume a lot of resources.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Error, Microsoft Corp., Code, MsgBox, keyboard shortcut, Graphics, vbOKOnly, Alan Wood, Insert
Top 25 'most dangerous' coding errors revealed
News Security organizations, companies and academics have banded together to produce a list of what they consider to be the most critical coding errors.
Tags: Authentication and encryption, Firewalls, Hacking, Politics, Defense/military, Apple Inc., Error, Security, SANS Institute, Mitre Corp.
Lenovo replacing some problem batteries
News Company acknowledged some ThinkPad model batteries are showing error messages, though not a safety risk, and it's offering replacements.
Tags: Components, Notebooks and tablets, Battery, IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo Group Ltd., Laptop Computer, Notebooks and tablets, Components
Hands-on programming: Working with Windows Event Log in .NET
Techguide Justin James walks you through the basics of using Windows Event Log in .NET, from the terminology to working with event sources and logs.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Log, Event Log, Event ID, installation package, Application, Event, LINQ, Levit & James Inc.
Google: Pirate Bay booted off search by mistake
News Site is unavailable on Google's search pages for a while last week, but Google says it was just a mistake. The controversial BitTorrent search engine is being indexed again.
Tags: Web 2.0, Digital rights management (DRM), Google Inc., search engine, TV, attorney, Internet Service, Internet Service Provider, Google Search, Internet
Twitter gets the munchies again, eats user avatars
News It's temporary, Twitter says, and due to a caching problem, but many users' Twitter icons have been gone for over a day now.
Tags: Web 2.0, photograph, blog, Web 2.0
Configure Apache to support multiple SSL sites on a single IP address
Techguide With Apache 2.2.12 and support for the Server Name Indication extension to the SSL protocol, you can configure name-based HTTPS sites, just as you can name-based HTTP sites.
Tags: Open source, Web servers, Apache Software Foundation, SNI, SSL, Site, Web Browser, IP, IP Address, OpenSSL
Facebook confirms site instability
News Login and content-posting problems on social networking site have been confirmed by company, but no explanation or cause has yet been provided.
Tags: Web 2.0, Network security, Social Media, distributed denial of service, social networking, Facebook, Network security, Web 2.0
Symantec pulls Norton patch after error reports
News Security company offers fix after faulty patch prompts error messages for Norton users.
Tags: Security applications/tools, Antivirus software, Norton Co., Norton Internet Security, antivirus, Symantec Norton AntiVirus, Hardware, Symantec Corp., spokeswoman, Security applications/tools
Windows 7 works great on the MacBook Pro
Blogs As a registered Microsoft developer, I had early access to the final release version of Windows 7, which I installed on ...
Tweeting from the command line
Techguide Find out about a simple script that will allow you to send tweets from the command line.
Tags: Open source, Web 2.0, Script, Twitter Inc., Web 2.0, Red Hat Inc., Social Media, Vincent Danen, API, Canada
