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How strong are your passwords, really? |
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 |
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There are many ways to protect your computers and the private information on them. A common way used on personal computers and web sites is to require a login user name and password. In theory, those with the correct credentials get in, and everyone else is blocked. But like everything else computers help us to do, they have made password cracking easier. What used to be impossible can now be done in ever-shorter amounts of processing time. How strong are the passwords you use?
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Laptops for small business |
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Monday, 18 January 2010 |
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I have done some research recently on laptops / notebooks for business users, specifically small business users with no IT staff and no purchasing guidelines. Ultra-portable netbooks are popular, especially with frequent travelers. But assuming you need a full-size laptop computer, here are my recommendations.
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
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I recently got an HTC Hero cell phone (on Sprint) running Google's Android operating system. Android has much in common with my old favorite, the Palm OS: it's versatile, efficient, elegant,
accessible, and developer and user friendly.
Not to mention eminently hackable. 
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Another Free Software killer application |
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Friday, 02 September 2005 |
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Free Software continues to make inroads in the business
sector. On the desktop, browsers and office suites are now mature
and powerful. (Are you using one yet?) On the
server, web and email services are a natural. Lately, another
category of application is bridging the two - groupware.
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A Small Business Consultant's Linux Desktop |
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Monday, 24 January 2005 |
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article was originally published on NewsForge. You can read it here now.
As a consultant to small businesses and non-profit
organizations that are too small to have any IT staff of their own, I
need to be able to support a diverse array of desktops and servers,
platforms and file formats. I've been able to do it exclusively with
Linux since 1998. Here are my must-have Linux desktop applications. |
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