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CAPTCHA Implemented
Just a quick note to let you know that I have finally been able to implement a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart) solution for our blogs. This should effectively stop all the spam comments.  If the...
Email from Director Mueller
*** DO NOT FOLLOW ANY OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS – LINK FUNCTIONALITY IN THIS POST HAS BEEN DISABLED *** I received an email from the FBI Director today, I thought it might be fun to publish it to my blog. I am publishing the Plain Text version of the email...
Posted: 04-18-2010 5:26 by jim® | with 2 comment(s)
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We are living in exponential times
‘LO’ Message Sent 40 Years Ago Today
Internet messages started with a crash 40 years ago today , and life hasn't been the same since. “We transmitted the ‘L’ … and the ‘O’ — and then the other computer crashed,” says UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock, who helped send that first message on...
Happy SysAdmin’s Day!
Since Ted Kekatos, a SysAdmin in the Chicago area suggested the day, to the first celebration on July 28, 2000. System Administrator Appreciation Day has become the one day a year set aside to show your appreciation for those people who keep all your...
Kudos to Obama for Appointing a Cybersecurity Czar
Those who know me, know that I don’t approve of much of what the Obama Administration has done so far; however I have to give the new POTUS kudos on a job well done, by creating the position of a “Cybersecurity Czar” President Obama spoke today about...
Testing Oomph!
Jim Restucci Axcess Internet Services, Inc.® jimr@axcess.us http://jimsweb.net
Happy Birthday RFCs – The RFC Celebrates 40th Anniversary
On this day in 1969, 20 years before the birth of the World Wide Web, the first Request for Comments (RFC) document was published in the series that has documented Internet standards, practices, and technical history for the past four decades. Writing...
ISOC mourns death of Internet Pioneer
Tributes flow after passing of Japanese Internet pioneer, Prof. Haruhisa Ishida, 9 March 2009 With great sadness, the Internet Society marks the passing of another pioneering figure of the Internet, Professor Haruhisa Ishida, who died on 9 March 2009...
China irks US with computer security review rules - Technology | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news
This one just makes you scratch your head and say, why?! Considering I spend a portion of my day stopping Chinese hackers (among other countries) from entering Axcess' network illegally, its strange why we would want to provide the Chinese government...
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