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From Security Focus: Search giant Google saw a massive spike in traffic following the death of pop-star Michael Jackson and initially classifying the surge as an attack on its infrastructure. Search traffic began to spike at around 2:00 p.m. PT on Thursday, peaking just before 3:00 p.m., the company said in a blog post on [...]

While doing much needed maintenance on my home and test networks, I realized some of my older machines were in sore need of drive space.  Not wanting to tear apart machines looking for extra drives, I decided to clean them up a bit.   I primarily used two tools for this: JDiskReport: JDiskReport enables you to [...]

I’m a big Acer laptop fan.  I’ve owned 3 myself and I’ve recommended them repeated without issue.  So when I found a New York Times article, I had to post it. ABOUT three months ago, Gianfranco Lanci flew into San Francisco International Airport, got off the plane and made his way to the passport control [...]

From SecurityFocus: The U.S. Secretary of Defense ordered the military to create a unified command to act as the nation’s central hub for cyber capabilities and commanded the Pentagon to develop a policy framework for cyberspace operations… “Our increasing dependency on cyberspace, alongside a growing array of cyber threats and vulnerabilities, adds a new element [...]

One of the things I enjoy doing is reviewing my web logs to see how people are finding my site. Surprisingly, much of my traffic is still Conficker related. Usually it’s people looking for my Wireshark filters to detect infected computers, which indicates they still haven’t removed the threat. Here’s my good deed for the [...]

I saw this earlier today on Twitter and had to post it.  It’s like watching a train wreck… yeah, it’s that good.

From endgadget: We don’t know exactly how, but Belkin‘s claiming its new Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit adapters can outpace the current 200Mbps standard speed of most other powerline devices (not all of them, mind you) by five fold. Of course, the caveat here is that the touted 1000Mbps is under ideal settings, and there’s [...]

From Lifehacker: Firefox 3.5 is a pretty substantial update to the popular open-source browser, and it’s just around the corner. See what features, fixes, and clever new tools are worth getting excited about in the next big release. My favorite feature allows you to reopen tabs you’ve recently closed.  I can’t even count how many [...]

From TechRepublic: Officials in the city of Bozeman, Montana are asking job applicants to turn over their user names and passwords to social networking sites like Facebook as part of their background checks. Remember last week when you thought the worst of your job-hunting worries was answering the dreaded Where do you see yourself in [...]

From Wired: 10. “Internet Explorer is much better than Firefox—why else would it be the most popular browser?” 9. “Jar-Jar Binks was so funny, I wish he’d been in the original trilogy, too!” 8. “Homeopathy works, no matter what ’science’ has to say about it.” 7. “If open-source software was really that great, they’d charge [...]