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• David Redekop

Guests

• Dennis Houseknecht
• Rob Wolf
• Chris Allen
• Arthur Wiebe
• Patrick Browne
• Werdus Pretorius

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Host

• David Redekop

Guests

• Arthur Wiebe
• Andy Larin
• David Neale
• Rob Wolf

Good News:

• David Redekop - Coming Reboot on Missipi
• Andy Larin - Getting the results of planted seeds on client's about the functionality of server's
• David Neale - BING can act as a sell force for Nerdsonsite
• Rob Wolf - Have recruited new Nerds

News and Discussion:

• Bing review - You can easily stream the videos just by resting the mouse over it

• Google wave - A new exiting Google product presented as an Open Source, meant to replace email and to help with collaborative projects
• Google squared- A new tool from Google that presents the search result as tables. Very useful when searching specific queries.
• Google flu trends - Google help keep track on the increment of flu trend,using its search queries
• Windows 7 - The not so long awaited  windows 7, shows maturity so far seems to be free of bugs 
• Xbox 360 - New Features available video streaming, twitter and facebook
• Space Sniffer - Great tool that allow NonNerds to easily see how data is stored on a hard drive
• Passwords Precautions - How we can educate business and home clients to have unique passwords, some options include keepass,somanypasswords,roboform.
• Windows 7 RC fails to thwart well -known hacker risk

Coments

If 7 was the number of completion, how about the number 8? Once again we have Andy Larin, David Neale, and David Redekop as our host!

Topics of the week include Google Wave, Windows 7, Microsoft's Bing search engine, and some nice tips and software applications to help your productivity!

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The good news (for most of you) is that this article does not mention data losses in Canada, Australia, South Africa, India, Bolivia, or Mexico (although I am sure that there have been some losses in all these countries).

The bad news is governmental agencies in the US and in the UK appear to be mind-bogglingly inept when it comes to protecting sensitive information. Appalling is not an over-statement.

Let's come away with a few simple lessons and apply them in our every day dealings with OUR clients:

-- The more sensitive data gets aggregated onto one device (backups normally aggregate data onto a single drive or tape), the greater the need to protect that device.
-- Backups should always be encrypted. Truecrypt provides a free and easy way to encrypt backups.
-- Don't forget about physical security. Stealing a drive is a low-tech and very effective attack.
-- Don't overlook smart phones, which are really just ultra-compact computers with built in phones
-- Laptops are ESPECIALLY susceptible to theft. ALL sensitive data MUST be encrypted. Truecrypt can also be used to encrypt the entire contents of the disk.

This really is not rocket science, folks. The first steps are to determine where the data lives, assess the risks, and employ the controls that we all know how to use. Why have so many government agencies, employees, and contractors failed to take these simple steps, especially after so many well-publicized incidents? GOOD QUESTION! (Sadly, I have no answer)

Dennis H in West Virginia, US

May 27

If you have more than 1 computer you can use Synergy to control them with 1 keyboard and 1 mouse as if they were 1 computer, this will work on Windows, Linux and OSX. It can also be configured to auto start so that you get seamless operation from boot up.

You end up with a system which acts exactly the way multi-monitor works on a single computer but over multiple computers, the benfit being you can run processes on each computer so you get more power and different operating systems if that is of use to you as well.

An overview of how to get this working is, you set up the computer with the mouse and keyboard attached as the host, then create rules to define where each screen begins and ends and which ones are to the left / right / top  or bottom of it.

Using Linux and Windows Together with Synergy