In Through The Out Door

A Tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab:

David Weiss of Microsoft’s Macintosh Business Unit (MacBU) gives a virtual tour of Microsoft’s Mac Lab at Redmond, reportedly one of the largest Mac labs outside of Apple (includes 150 Mac minis!).“ Great pictures. From the article: ”The first area in the Mac Lab is what we call the Sandbox. This is where we keep all significant hardware configurations Apple has released that run our products. We’ll use the Plasma display to, watch DVDs and play games, uh er, I mean, do important training presentations. It’s actually very useful because everyone can be in front of a computer and still see the main screen and follow along. Often other groups at Microsoft (the games group, hardware drivers group and even the Windows media group) will come and schedule time in the Mac Lab to test their software on the different hardware configurations.

Parker, Spurs Race Past Kings in Opener:

Sparked by Tony Parker, the San Antonio Spurs began defense of their NBA title with a resounding 122-88 victory over the Sacramento Kings in the opener of their Western Conference first-round series

Five-Minutes to a More Secure SSH:

One way to tighten up the security of your system.“Apart from past flaws in the OpenSSH daemon itself that have allowed remote compromise (very rare), most break-ins result from successful brute-force attacks. You can see them in your firewall, system or auth logs, they are an extremely common form of attack. Here is an excerpt from the /var/log/messages file on a CentOS Linux box (the attacking hostname has been obfuscated). You can see multiple attempts to login as users root and ftp. Als

Damn Small Linux plus pendrive:

Interesting tiny little Linux distribution.“My conclusion: DSL is a great little distro. I can hardly imagine spending a day now without my trustworthy DSL-powered pendrive. Pendrive-based distros beat live CDs because they let you quickly save your session preferences and data on the same medium as the operating system. I won’t use live CDs anymore except on older systems that don’t support booting from a USB device, or for trying new distributions.” Linux.com | Damn Small Linux plus pendr

Browsers feel the fuzz

Vancouver, CANADA–Last month, security researcher HD Moore decided to write a simple program that would mangle the code found in Web pages and gauge the effect such data would have on the major browsers. The result: hundreds of crashes and the discovery of several dozen flaws.

It’s official: Distracted drivers are dangerous

Freeze your hard drive to recover data: Myth or reality?