The growth of social networking proceeds! Now Microsoft has elected to add social networking functionality to its popular XBOX Live community platform.
Microsoft announced at E3 currently underway on Loas Angeles USA, that the new services will allow their Xbox Live users to keep communicate with their friends using services such as FaceBook, Twitter and similar services.
This move will further expand the reach of social networking services to include gamers with consoles.
Policies to limit remote desktop session (RDP) length can be applied per User or to the whole computer.
Here is how to do it on a machine wide policy.
If your machine is part of a Domain
Go to: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Terminal Services
This will work on a Domain environment under Active Directory.
For a stand alone computer:
Go to Terminal Services Configuration.
Click on the Connections Folder
Then right click on the RDP-tcp connection in the righ pane
Open Properties window
Click on the Sessions tab
Tick Overide User Settings checkbox
Then set time periods for End, Active, Idle
Check Overide User Settings and click End Session radio button
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By Howard Rybko (june 2009)
The best way to avoid the problem is to institute a Policy that closes open RDP sessions after a set period of inactivity.
The problem with RD ...
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A soon to be released Google product called Flipper aims to display news graphically, effectively allowing browsers to select a news source in a way somewhat equivalent to browsing magazines at bookstore.
At this moment the link to the Google Flipper page is available only to staff but news circulating since Friday seems to indicate that a public beta release is not too far off.
It would make sense that the news displays would have to be prepared and formatted by the various news publishers, to make their news items visible in the new graphical display. This probably means that news producers have been involved and could well point to a new revenue source for Google as publishers could possibly bid for position.
Howard Rybko
It has been announced that the expected go live date of the Seacom cable will be extended from the 27th of June until the 23rd of July.
The official cause of the problem is said to be the sea pirates whose activities have hampered the rollout of the eagerly awaited extra bandwidth. Yet another month to wait to see if we finally get some affordable international bandwidth in South Africa.
The Twitter account of marketing guru Guy Kawasaki was hacked by adding a link to a sex site for a video download.
The Twitter system then kicked in to push the link to some 1000,000 plus Twitter users.
Users who followed the link would eventually get a message offering to update their video codec. The download contains the malware.
The important lesson is that Twitter's immense popularity was bound ot lead to attacks like this. Thus we need to be alert to:
not fall for these kind of lures
be aware of how important our own security is when we use a service like Twitter (using a good password is a good start)
Imagine
Can you imagine the damage a hacker could create by sending Tweets that supposedly come from some celeb. The hacker could for example make a shocking statement that would seemingly come from the mouth of the celeb. The fake Tweet would be immediately picked up by the celeb's followers. Imagine the PR effort it would require for the denials alone!
Thus we need to find out how K ...
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If you have an urge to watch the latest Harry Potter movie online before its official release, do your self a favour and resist the urge.
IEven though could never understand why anyone would spoil a glorious big screen cinematic experience by watching a poor rendition on a 14 inch LCD sceeen there a thousands of viewers who disagree with me.
Besides the poor experience and the legal boundaries that are being overstepped,malware infection is another reason not to take in the latest Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Hackers have developed a series of lures similar to "Watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince online for free" which leads to a website that urges you to load a streamviewer in order to watch the movie.
The streamviewer is the kicker. It is pure malware that will install itself on your computer and will be sure to cause some complications in your life.
Best bet is to avoid practices that break copyright laws. In plain English safety online is dramatically enhanced whe ...
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A series of SMS based services for low bandwidth, low computer density contries in Africa was launched by Google this week. The service which debuts in Uganda, aims to provide information via SMS to African users who lack internet connectivity.
The system provides basic information such as News, weather and sports as well as replies to simple text queries.
Google Trader will attempt to bring buyers and sellers together via SMS.
Google's Ugandan Country Manager says that the service is vital in an area of "information poverty".