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The case of the fake 1935 Babe Ruth

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:00:17 +0000

Quick: Why is it easier to find a 1935 Goudey Babe Ruth on Ebay than the 1935 Goudey card featuring four of his former Yankee teammates, the less-than-immortal Red Rolfe, Johnny Allen, Jimmie DeShong, and Dixie Walker? Because Red Rolfe was

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Farquhar’s security New Year’s resolutions

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 11:00:29 +0000

As I mentioned in passing last week, I had a job interview at the end of the week. There was one question, near the end of the interview, that’s a fairly common question, but I wanted to record my answer

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Things to do for your relatives’ computers this Christmas

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 11:00:33 +0000

I wish I’d posted this last week, since many of us see one set of relatives at Thanksgiving and a different set at Christmas (and perhaps New Year’s). Here are things you can do as preventative maintenance for relatives whose

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Farewell to a St. Louis Christmas tradition

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:33 +0000

I saw something sad in the papers this week: Macy’s is closing its downtown St. Louis store, the former flagship Famous-Barr (or Famous and Barr, if you’re old enough) store. And that means this past Christmas was the last Christmas

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Happy 30th birthday, C-64

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:02:59 +0000

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Commodore 64’s release, PC World–a magazine published by the same company that once published RUN, a magazine dedicated to the C-64 and other Commodore 8-bit computers–had someone try to use a 64 for

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How to study for CISSP

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:59:23 +0000

I got the letter this week. The one from (ISC)². If the first word is “congratulations,” it means you passed. But if the first two words are “thank you,” you didn’t. If you want the letter that says “congratulations” in

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Amazon’s new Kindles look like rising stars

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:16:27 +0000

I’m a couple of days late and for that I apologize (I’ve been on the road), but this week Amazon released its anticipated Kindle tablet and snuck out a couple of new e-readers. The tablet–7 inches, a faster-than-rumored 1 GHz

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The St. Louis tornadoes of 2010

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:23:49 +0000

I don’t normally post stuff like this, as weather posts are usually mundane. Today was a little different. We had tornadoes touch down in the St. Louis area today. At about noon, we took cover in our basement. By 12:10,

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Don’t use Internet Explorer this Christmas

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:07:59 +0000

In case you haven’t heard elsewhere, there’s a nifty unpatched vulnerability for Internet Explorer floating around. And it’s actively being exploited. Metasploit, an exploit toolkit used by penetration testers and script kiddies alike, is able to detect and utilize it.

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The solution to paper passwords

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:34:57 +0000

I know your passwords are either written down or insecure. I know it just as surely as I know New Year’s Day is January 1. I know because passwords have to be incredibly complex to be secure, and I know

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