Archive for November, 2011
I like to get familiar with new versions of Windows early in the cycle, so it was great to see the Developer Preview being made available ahead of a beta. First impressions The new Metro interface hits right between the eyes. I can’t say that I’m a fan yet. It seems well adapted to touch screens, but I’m [...]
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Tags: desktop, KVM, Metro, Microserver, N40L, USB, wifi, Windows 8, wireless
OpenVPN
For some time I’ve used SSH tunnels as a means to pretend that I’m somewhere else to avoid geography filters, or to otherwise sneak past content filters. This is fine for regular HTTP(S) traffic from a browser, where it is easy to define a proxy server, but doesn’t work so well for other applications – [...]
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Tags: cloud, filter, iOS, iSSH, Linux, OpenVPN, PrivateTunnel, SSH, SSL, tunnel, Ubuntu, vpn, VPS, Windows
If you don’t already know what Raspberry Pi is then take a look at the Wikipedia entry and their web site. Their mission to recreate the experiences of 8 bit computing that shaped the lives and careers of my generation is laudable, and I’m sure they will achieve great success. That’s just the start though. [...]
Filed under: technology, Raspberry Pi | 7 Comments
Tags: hacking, hack, arduino, microcontroller, Raspberry Pi, makers, VDI, thin client, RDP, ICA, PCoIP, VNC
Race Against The Machine
I’ve been an avid follow of Andrew McAfee’s Blog ever since JP first pointed me in that direction. He’s clearly a man that understands how technology is reshaping how we do business. Whilst I was on holiday a few weeks ago I noticed that he’d published a book along with Erik Brynjolsson – Race Against [...]
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Tags: #racemachine, copyright, economics, education, employment, entrepreneur, founders visa, immigration, Internet, patents, politics, race against the machine, regulation, review, SMEs, startups, technology
A few weeks ago I attended a summit on advanced persistent threats (APTs)[1] run by on of the major security vendors. So that people could speak freely there it used Chatham House Rules, so sadly I can’t attribute the piece of insight that I’m going to share here. About five or six years ago I wrote a security monitoring [...]
Filed under: security | 1 Comment
Tags: APT, cones, eye, eyeball, monitoring, MSSP, rods, security, SEM, SIEM, sim, SOC
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