Google’s New Search Engine

Thanks to a post by my friend Daryl, I’ve been looking at the improved Google search engine, codenamed Caffeine. Google has had a bunch of competition lately. Bing which is Microsoft’s new search engine recently launched, followed by an announcement that Yahoo will use Bing as its engine.

The current version of Google updates its index [...]

Setting Up GPG Keys

Yesterday you may have read my GPG Symmetric Encryption Guide. The last tip on that page was that you should setup GPG keys and publish them on a keyserver. I say this because publishing GPG keys allows you to encrypt things for anyone else who has published their GPG keys without contacting them and exchanging [...]

GPG Symmetric Encryption

I often come into a situation where I have to exchange some important confidential file with somebody who doesn’t have GPG keys setup. Explaining how to setup keys can be a pain, especially if you believe that the user will lose them or simply forget how to use them. There are all manner of propriety [...]

ATM Phishing

You’ve probably heard of ATM fishing by now. If you haven’t you should have. It typically involves placing a card reading device that is designed to blend in perfectly with the ATM. Then a camera or other device is placed that records the PIN of the user as they type it. So effectively while the [...]

Fedora 12 Alpha

So recently Fedora released the alpha of their latest OS. I’d been running rawhide for quite a while. Of particular interest is that my RS690 no longer flickers when I move a window that includes an alpha channel, and no longer randomly crashes. I’ve still got to disable modesetting but modesetting currently only stops me [...]