TKO - Built for disaster

Yeah, I know. To go rock'n'roll you need drinks. And if they aren't already in the fridge you need some help. Enter the Rapid Blitz Chiller , and after approximately two minutes you're good to go with your first cold choice of beverage. Although, someone pointed me at a free version of rapid cooler courtesy of Mythbusters, which is made of a bucket filled with water + ice + salt. Took them five minutes to reach cold beer (38F/3C). Cold enuff :-)

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I get a lot of questions from people who want to know what the best security program to install, and which one is the best. And then they get frustrated when they learn that I can't answer their question. There is only one answer, you can't. Yeah, my credibility as "the security guy" just was lowered to a place near zero, if not six feet under. Once again I must revert to the long answer which is, there is no program designed to do that alone. It is you, as a human being, that protects your data best. Your computer is just a thingie that contains your data. You probably don't give a rats ass if your computer is hacked, or compromised in other ways. What you really are concerned about is your data. People just don't realize this. So that's the pre-requisite. To move along from there you need to protect your data through this computer's perimeters. Let's just face it first, you will never get it 100% secure. In order to do that you need to put a ...

How about this for an alternative style of living? Knowing the British quality of building and their lack of knowledge on how insulations work, or that it even exists, makes me wonder what kind of a number the heating bill carries... Nonetheless it is an astonishing conversion, and I wish I was as handy. A couple of friends from days gone by re-modeled a smaller country side chapel into a two apartments twenty years ago and I wanted that too, but this brings things up to a totally new level.

Just happened to stumble upon (not via the StumbleUpon service) this series of videos from Purdue campus with Dr. Charles P. Pfleeger where he goes through a few ideas in computer security history that in hindsight could have been thought through maybe once or twice before making reality of them. I like the analogy where he states that in many projects the security guy is involved in a late stage, when everything is almost marketed, shrink wrapped and sold, to bring his little bag of security miracle dust and sprinkle it over the product in order to make it safe... Haven't we all seen that happen!?