I noticed something rather important missing in the realm of Full Disk Encryption, and that was benchmark data. The methodology I followed may be a bit unorthodox but would provide me with a consistant platform to test with.
I installed Windows XP SP2 on VMWare Fusion and applied all the patches available from our WSUS server. [...]
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Benchmark PGP versus Truecrypt Full Disk Encryption
March 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: General · IT Security · Review · Software · Windows
Cool Windows Desktop Search add for Vista
December 9th, 2007 · No Comments
This is one of the coolest apps I have come across for Vista.
WDS Vista Addon
p.s. This guys works for MS as a Search Tech dev NICE
Tags: Cool Software · Software · Windows
Adobe to put Yahoo ads alongside PDF’s
December 1st, 2007 · No Comments
Ok people, WHAT THE FUCKING HELL. Just read this story at BBC.co.uk and makes me feel glad to not use the bloat called Acrobat Reader, I have been using the FoxIt reader since v6 of Acrobat Reader came out because there was no way I could believe that they needed to make a reader of [...]
Tags: General · Rant · Software
Flock
October 19th, 2007 · No Comments
I wonder if this is a good idea, learning a new browser all over again.
Must say the initial experience is good, all my FireFox bookmarks and all the settings I had seem to be here, will just cross fingers that the crossover goes smoothly from here on in.
Blogged with Flock
Problem installing NDP1.1sp1-KB928366-X86.exe
September 27th, 2007 · No Comments
Damn this error
NDP1.1sp1-KB928366-X86.exe
The upgrade patch cannot be installed by the Windows Installer service because the program to be upgraded may be missing blah blah blah…….
This has been annoying me no end, and am pretty sure I am not the only one. If you don’t believe me do a Google search,
In my case however [...]
Holy mother of Google goodness
August 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Been fiddling with Google Desktop (GD). Yes I am slow on the uptake, but I did try to give Live Desktop a chance, and it is bleh. I had it installed on the same too machines that I am now testing GD on both my laptop and my Vista box, and did it cause huge slow down. It always seemed to be indexing, if I forgot to pause it when my laptop was off power, sucked the juice right out.
Tags: General · Review · Software
I’m a Slave to Google
May 31st, 2006 · 1 Comment
Okay, google has just suckered me into another of their “beta’s”
The mail sent to *@taos.za.net goes to GMail for domain owners, i.e. they do the mail hosting. You can setup 25 email addresses and by the looks of it each has 2GB storage, damn I wanna see that farm so bad. Hey mabye oneday you [...]
Extreme Movie Manager 5.2
May 17th, 2006 · No Comments
Quoted from their site
XMM: Probably the most powerful movie manager around, let’s discover it’s power:
Is it really? Lets see
Ease of Use
Getting Started
There are a variety of ways to get your Movies and TV series’ into XMM. HDD Search and Importing from text is probably the most useful ways. Once that is done all [...]
Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: The Case of the Mysterious Driver
April 15th, 2006 · No Comments
Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: The Case of the Mysterious Driver
A bit biased mabye but still worth the read. He is not one of the top Security dudes in the world for nothing.
In case you do not know who he is (sic) have a read on the Sysinternal About Us page
Between him and Steve Gibson they are [...]
Tags: General · IT Security · Software · Windows · Windows
KC’s Toolbox
April 4th, 2006 · No Comments
KC’s Toolbox Project is closing. A real pity as NET Traffic Meter is one of the better appz around to monitor your usage online. I really hope someone considers his offer
The KC’s Toolbox project will be closed by the end of 2006. This means that the projects hosted (NET Traffic Meter, NET RSS Reader and [...]
