The Wikimedia Foundation has just launched the first release of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I hope the next version they’ll use sub-etha to update the contents automatically. It could also come with a babel fish or a Federation tricorder…
Install Thunderbird and create your email account with the instructions from Google help page: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77662
To set up your Thunderbird client to work with Gmail:
Open Thunderbird, and select Tools > Account Settings.
Click Add Account.
Select the Email account radio button and click Next. The Identity screen appears.
Enter your full name in the Your Name field. Enter your Gmail address (username@gmail.com) in the Email Address field, and click Next. Google Apps users, enter your full address in the format username@your_domain.com
Select IMAP as the type of incoming server you are using. Enter imap.gmail.com in the Incoming Server field.
Set the Outgoing Server to smtp.gmail.com and click Next.
Enter your full email address (including @gmail.com@your_domain.com) in the Incoming User Name and Outgoing User Name fields, and click Next.
Enter a name for your email account in the Account Name field, and click Next.
Verify your account information in the dialog box, and click Finish.
Select Server Settings from the folder list below your new account.
Update the Port value to 993.
In the Security Settings section, select SSL from the Use secure connection options.
Select the ‘Check for messages at startup’ checkbox and the ‘Check for new messages every 10 minutes’ checkbox.
Click Outgoing Server (SMTP) in the folder list.
Select the smtp.gmail.com (Default) entry from the list and click Edit. The SMTP Server page appears.
Enter smtp.gmail.com as the Server Name and set the Port to 587.
Select User name and password and enter your full email address (including @gmail.com or @your_domain.com) in the User Name field.
Select TLS from the Use secure connection radio buttons and click OK.
Click OK to save your changes and exit the Account Settings dialog.
Now in your Thunderbird you can see your Calendar as well.
Open the Calendar tab and under the “home” Calendar, click with the right button of your mouse and select “New Calendar”
Select On the Network and click Next.
Select the CalDAV format option.
In the Location field, enter [ https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/ [ your Google Calendar email address ] /events ] and click Next.For example, if the email address used to access your Google Calendar is calendarfriend@gmail.com, the Location field should contain https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/calendarfriend@gmail.com/events
Be sure to use https in your URL, as an http address will not work.
Enter a name and select a color for your calendar.
In the pop-up screen, enter the following information:Username: This is the complete email address you use with Google Calendar (including the part after the @ sign). If you’re using Google Apps, be sure to enter your Google Apps email address. Password: This is the password you use to sign in to Google Calendar
Click OK.
Your Google Calendar will now appear in the Calendar tab of Mozilla Sunbird, and Sunbird will sync any changes to and from Google Calendar.
Now got to Thunderbird add-on tab and install Google Contacts add-on
Restart Thunderbird
Configure Google Contacts to synchronize with the server and that’s it.
“Most of us wish we could give more, now we can. Everyclick is a really simple way to raise money for free, just by doing something you already do” said Polly Gowers CEO, co- founder and winner of the WEBA Ethical Entrepreneur of the year 2007. “As we see it, every search that is not raising money for charity is a search wasted.”
Everyclick.com works just like any other search engine, but allows the users to choose the charity they would like to benefit from their searching.The revenue generated for charities comes from companies that advertise on the site.There is no sign up fee or hidden charge to the user or the charity, it’s free giving.
Charities of all sizes are benefiting from this new fundraising service; they range from Cancer Research to small village schools. If 10% of the UK online population used Everyclick.com for their searches, an additional £172,000 would be raised for charity every day.
How to raise more money for Camfed using Everyclick:
search the web using personalised Camfed search page: http://www.everyclick.com/camfed
compare and shop using this link(shop online at Tesco, Dell, Amazon, M&S, BBC, and more – half the revenues will go to Camfed)
The Everyclick Charity Challenge enables us to raise more money and have the chance to win a poster campaign on 1500 Clear Channel Outdoor sites that will be viewed an estimated 192 million times.
The challenge runs from 15th October 2008 to 1 March 2009 during which time we will have a range of innovative ways to raise money online.
Just a quick note to say Computer Awards has announced their shortlist for this year… and guess what… they think I deserve to be between the eight finalists…
Who knows… The winners will be announced at a glittering prize-giving ceremony to be held on 5 November.
The fast evolution of computer networks brought fantastic developments for communication and connection capacities.
We can easily see this evolution while observing the Internet, first a restricted network and now a complex and global network, where we can do a simple mail exchange or complex and elaborated financial transactions.
But, we also have the dark side of this fantastic environment: threats like virus, worms and Trojan horses, scanning, spoofing, sniffing or snooping, and so many others became the nightmare of all organizations.
Indeed, the technology can play for and against us.
A good way to make the technology works for us is using Packet Inspection. This is a tool frequently used to sniffing networks, looking for password and breaches, but information security professionals can use it to do exactly the opposite: protect the network.
With a good Packet Analyzer you can generate information about your integrated information systems, supporting the system administrator to find and solve the problems in a quick and efficient manner. It’s possible to identify attacks, non-authorized access to systems and malicious behaviors. In other words, with a good inspection solution your organization will be able to see and analyze everything that hits your network.
You can prevent problems and also reconstruct network sessions, providing the needed information for Network Forensics. It’s when the hunter became the hunted: you will be using the same method malicious threats use to put your business under risks to defend your organization.
Do you want to know what a Packet Inspection is? Watch this video for more information: Deep Packet Inspection explained or read here at Wikipedia.
Data Recovery
Every computer has storage files devices. These devices can be: Hard drives, notebook’s hard drive, CDs, DVDs, diskettes, Zip drive, memory card, pen drives, etc.
In these devices you can find the operational system e all information used and archived in your computer.
But, the truth is, these devices are subjects to failures and accident that can cause the lost of your valuable files: mechanical failures, electric failures, virus action, bad system functioning, information deletion, format, problems with water, fire, smoke, and others.
Data Recovery is the effort to rescue info lost in those or similar situations.
Insecure Data
Our data is not always secure and sometimes is too late to do something to protect them. That’s why Data Recovery business is growing so fast around the world with some many companies offering solutions.
The truth is we never imagine it can happen with us. “I ended up with nothing” – One day, while starting her computer, a friend heard a strange sound. With a burning smell, her computer turned off. She couldn’t turn her computer on again, a Pentium III with 2 years.
Even after installing new mother board, sound card and power supply, her computer didn’t turn on. Hard drive was removed and installed in another commuter, but, as you can imagine, she couldn’t access her data.
In that hard drive, she was keeping her PhD papers, and all her classes. No hard copies, no backups. Since now she can’t access her data, she is now looking for a company that can help her, to at least try to salve some of those files.
But the question is: are these files more valuable than the price for an eventual data recovery? And if yes, which values and services she should look in a data recovery company?
Information on Risk
I’m pretty sure that my friend’s history is totally familiar to you. The good thing is nowadays internet can provide valuable resources to help you with your data recovery. An example is this data recovery blog from DTIData, a great site with a lot of resources, where you can find information about how to recover your hard drive, your exchange server, your NTFS, your iPod, or even raid data recovery.
But how it happens? Why suddenly your hard drive doesn’t work anymore? How can we prevent this situation? Is it possible recovering any data? Is my data impossible to be recovered?
A future article will explain.
With a range of clients that can go from The Pentagon to the home user, they have everything for security surveillance, since External and Internal security cameras, CCTV cameras to PC security systems.
Pangea Day aims to ‘tap into the power of film to strengthen tolerance and compassion while uniting millions of people to build a better future’.
Twenty films will be selected to be shown on 10th May 2008 all around the world. Each film selected will receive $3,000 and the opportunity to pitch to Participant Productions (Jeff Skoll’s company). The winner will receive $20,000 to develop their treatment. This would be great for Camfed! (Yes, where I work ! )
If you haven’t already joined up to www.youtube.com, then please do so and view and vote for our film – ‘Two Friends: The Promise of Africa’s Future’ – which can be found here: ‘Two Friends‘
The more votes and the more hits, the greater possibility our film will be noticed! And please get your friends to vote too!
gs presents IronKey posted at The Tech-Investigator, saying, “Outlining the critical elements of information security for the mobile Professional Investigator.”
Host comment: “Social Engineering and how to avoid it.”
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Welcome to the October 28, 2007 edition of information security carnival. We have frauds, ID thiefs, virus, spywares, privacy invasion and more.
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Marc and Angel presents 6 Digitally Traceable Tracks We Unconsciously Leave Behind | Marc and Angel posted at Marc and Angel, saying, “I have compiled a list of 6 digitally traceable tracks we unconsciously leave behind as we trek through our daily routines. I have also included a hypothetical example of how easy it can be to track someone down online by tracing their online affiliations and dabbling with the information that is found.”
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