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How I once took down a network, including a radio station

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:00:42 +0000

I met up Monday night with some other security professionals for some emergency networking of the professional kind. One of the attendees, a penetration tester, had a little incident where he took down a production system when he conducted his

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Microsoft: No x86 apps for ARM

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:10:20 +0000

So, The Register reports that Windows on ARM will not have compatibility with apps compiled for x86. Intel has been saying this for a while, while Microsoft has been mum. So now we know. There are arguments both for and

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The tyranny of consumerization is real

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:00:25 +0000

Computerworld cites the Ipad 2 and increasing demand by end users to use such consumer devices in corporate environments as “The tyranny of consumerization.” This has happened before. And if history repeats itself, the future will be better than today,

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Barfy.

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:13:19 +0000

I started my professional career doing network administration at the University of Missouri. (I generally don't count my stint selling low-quality PCs at the last surviving national consumer electronics chain towards my professional experience anymore.)

The University had its own IT department, but some of the larger departments, particularly Journalism, had their own IT departments as well. I worked for the School of Journalism.

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Reviving a laptop

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 25 Sep 2002 22:48:05 +0000

The drive in my work laptop gave a S.M.A.R.T. error over the weekend. I never have had much luck with Hitachi laptop drives. Micron sent a replacement drive--an IBM, thankfully--and, doubly thankfully, the Hitachi hung on until today. So I whipped out Bart's magic network boot disk--to which I'd added the 3c556 module necessary to get this Micron Transport LT on the network--and ran my copy of Ghost from a network drive. (It won't fit on that disk, no way, no how. Not with all the other stuff crammed onto it.)

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