Security Absurdity: The Complete, Unquestionable, And Total Failure of Information Security. Noam Eppel writes how the Internet security is failing and what can be done about it. He compares the current state of security industry with a boiling frog:
They say if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will, of course, [...]
It’s an amazing experiment. I was touched by it, this just demonstrates what a difference one single human being can make.
eKatnipur.com is reporting that a girl in far western Nepal emits ‘glass pieces’ from forhead. A team of doctors are researching on 12-year-old girl, who has been excreting glass pieces from the side of her forehead for the last three years.
“The CT scan report indicates that she has some kind of problem in her forehead [...]
Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters show that anyone can become expert in almost anything. It indicates that experts are made, not born.
But how do the experts in these various subjects acquire their extraordinary skills? How much can be credited to innate talent and how much to intensive training? Psychologists have sought answers [...]
The TCP/IP Guide is the most comprehensive and easy to understand TCP/IP reference material available online. The 1600+ pages long guide is also available as a print book at amazon. This is absolutely one of the most useful resources for Network Admins. It is a perfect reference guide for experts, as well as an excellent [...]
Bruce Schneier has an excellent article on What the Terrorists Want and how we should be fighting them.
I’d like everyone to take a deep breath and listen for a minute.
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The people terrorists kill are not [...]
Amazon’s new Astore allows you to create your own Online Store. It’s new Associates product, very easy to setup, allows you to create your store in few minutes by choosing any products that Amazon has to offer. You can link the store to your blog (it stays in amazon’s domain). It would be great [...]
Allen suggests that mind is like a muscle and weakens if you don’t exercise it regularly. He offers very simple 10 ways to exercise our mind.
Regularly solve puzzles
Play a musical instrument
Paint, sketch or draw.
Learn a new language.
Learn how to juggle.
Play Chess, Backgammon, Checkers or even Go!
Play computer games.
Write!
Try amateur dramatics.
Travel.
SPEEDTEST.NET is a very interesting online tool that allows you to test your Internet Connection Speed, both download and upload. You can choose to test your Internet speed against servers located in different cities in US, Europe or Australia.
Live-Share is a simple, fast and free file hosting and sharing service. I just got registered, it works well with firefox (doesn’t work with safari). Anonymous users are given 300MB and registered users get 500MB of free storage. It’s really simple to use, all you got to do is:
1. Select your file and press upload2. [...]
