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Canvas brings the freedom to express yourself through design without needing to know CSS or PHP. With Canvas and Ink for Wordpress, you can easily rearrange, reconfigure, and colorize your entire blog without ever touching a line of code.

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Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. has won approval to build a wireless network around a free city-owned system that made its debut last fall in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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Here is a list of the 101 top free utilities to use sorted by category-u can also sort them alphabetically if u wish-obviously 7-Zip is the best archive app

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It is time to admit what many security professionals already know: We, as security professionals, are drastically failing ourselves, our community and the people we are meant to protect. Too many of our security layers of defense are broken. Security professionals are enjoying a surge in business and growing salaries and that is why we tolerate the dismal situation we are facing. Yet it is our mandate, first and foremost, to protect.

http://www.securityabsurdity.com/failure.php

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds. Yes, you read that right, in SECONDS. The application automates the cracking process, from dumping the sam database into the application, to cracking it and displaying the result in an easily readable grid.

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Security - denial of access to assets for malicious intent. It is the capability to defend against intrusion and to ultimately protect your assets from access and disclosure, change, or destruction. A deeper interest within security is privacy, which is security of sensitive material for eye-only, often information about a person. In the corporate environment another form of privacy is encountered–material of a proprietary nature. This information is of particular importance to an organization because its disclosure could harm competitive advantage or divulge trade secrets.

http://www.it-observer.com/articles/1136/wireless_security_attacks_defenses/

The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is a small beta application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based computer to find out if it’s ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista. When you run the Upgrade Advisor, it will scan your computer and generate an easy-to-understand report of any known system and device compatibility issues, along with recommendations on how you can get your PC ready for Windows Vista. Microsoft plans to add functionality to Upgrade Advisor, such as checking how your software applications will run with Windows Vista. Download the beta version today and check this site in a few months for a new version.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/upgradeadvisor/default.mspx

Microsoft today will unveil a new website aimed at informing consumers about Windows Vista’s hardware requirements, among other things. As we reported earlier, there are two levels of recommendations for Windows Vista, those dubbed “Vista-Capable” and those dubbed “Premium-Ready.”

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060518-6863.html

WOW!!  Will someone PLEASE get the RIAA to stop their complete non-sense!

The recording industry sued XM Satellite Radio on Tuesday over its new iPod-like device that can store up to 50 hours of music, sending to the courts a roiling dispute over how consumers can legally record songs using next-generation radio services.

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An annoying surprise awaits 2 million consumers expected to enthusiastically step forward in the next few weeks to help Microsoft test its new Windows Vista PC operating system.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2006-05-15-vista-security_x.htm?POE=TECISVA