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Sunday, October 28, 2007
Have you erase your data completely ?
A University of Glamorgan study found more than half the hard drives they saw still contained sensitive information.
It is feared some of the information could be used by criminals.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which monitors data disposal, has said it will be tough on any organisations breaching the Data Protection Act.
The study examined 105 hard drives which had been purchased on internet auction sites and was able to access 92 of them.
The data recovered by the university team included staff passwords and national insurance numbers, a template to print a university degree and even detailed information about school children.
Researchers found 57% of the readable disks contained data which allowed the original owners - ranging from organisations in the leisure and financial services industries to a number of universities - to be identified.
A fifth of the disks contained financial information, including sales receipts and profit and loss reports.
But as with every problem there is a solution, Here is one that will securely erase a single file, a folder, or an entire hard drive:http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/Eraser.shtml
It is feared some of the information could be used by criminals.
The Information Commissioner's Office, which monitors data disposal, has said it will be tough on any organisations breaching the Data Protection Act.
The study examined 105 hard drives which had been purchased on internet auction sites and was able to access 92 of them.
The data recovered by the university team included staff passwords and national insurance numbers, a template to print a university degree and even detailed information about school children.
Researchers found 57% of the readable disks contained data which allowed the original owners - ranging from organisations in the leisure and financial services industries to a number of universities - to be identified.
A fifth of the disks contained financial information, including sales receipts and profit and loss reports.
But as with every problem there is a solution, Here is one that will securely erase a single file, a folder, or an entire hard drive:http://www.softpedia.com/get/Security/Secure-cleaning/Eraser.shtml
Free PDF tools
I have found this site that offers you tools to edit your pdf file as you like.
PDFill PDF Tools are FREE PDF Toolbox to Merge, Split, Reorder, Encrypt, Decrypt, Rotate, Crop, Reformat, Header, Footer, Watermark, Images to PDF, PDF to Images, Form Fields Delete/Flatten/List, and PostScript to PDF.
PDFill PDF Tools are FREE PDF Toolbox to Merge, Split, Reorder, Encrypt, Decrypt, Rotate, Crop, Reformat, Header, Footer, Watermark, Images to PDF, PDF to Images, Form Fields Delete/Flatten/List, and PostScript to PDF.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Tech Ecosystem
Last week I had a query from my friend who was looking to buy new plasma TV, but we he hooked it up to his old DVD player the promise of HDMI quality picture was missing. I had a look and found out his 9months old DVD player doesn’t support HDMI output. I guess déjà vu must be coming to you, cause how many times we have brought home Electronic product only to find out it either won’t run or is not backward compatible. Just a month back I had brought Pioneer car audio Bluetooth player where you can through A2DP transfer music from your mobile, laptop and play through car speakers BUT my mobile doest have A2DP profile.
Manufactures through try to make their products backward compatible but still it doesn’t work always.
Cause electronic products today have a ecosystem in which they are made and tested, and will be out of place in older generation, and you purchasing a TV might end up changing everything in your living room except the furniture.
Solution to this problem is god planning
Take account of the your needs
- What you currently have?
- How much are you willing to spend?
- How long do you intend to keep it?
Answer to these questions will help you to find your very own Tech Ecosystem.
India is growing as a big market for FMCG goods where product gets launched simultaneously here as its international release, This may be good for one part, but other part says If the technology comes late then it has been tried and tested in other markets where we save ourselves to be the guinea pigs .
An example will be the ram which is used in computers , their was SDRAM then came RDRAM which was not launched here ,and it was rejected due to its higher price and making and new form of DDR RAM was launched which is the new standard .
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Onelook Search Engine
I have found this search engine to be quite useful when i am stuck with words.
Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.
Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are indexed by the OneLook® search engine.
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