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		<title>The end of this blog</title>
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With the publication of my book I decided to re-focus my online presence. To keep the online tutorials available for everyone, a new blog is started at  flosse.2blocksaway.com. All comments on this blog have been disabled.
//flosse
No TagsTags: book,, active, driectory,, disaster, recovery,, flosse.2blocksaway.com zsimkt22zsimkt22]]></description>
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		<title>female geeks&#8230; a dying breed</title>
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I usually don&#8217;t get into these blogging for ranking things, but the Fair Review project caught my attention.
I then browsed through the directory and found something that caught my eyes: eruAnna&#8217;s blog.  Funny I thought a female geek?, let&#8217;s see what she has to say and I browsed over to her blog, which isn&#8217;t actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/08/07/female-geeks-a-dying-breed/</link>
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		<title>SANSFire 2007 in text and pictures</title>
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SANS Fire 2007 in Washington DC is well under way. I am participating there in 2 courses and since I am a huge fan of SANS Security conferences . The problem is that a lot of people do not know what to expect at the bigger conferences so I wrote a few lines regarding what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/07/30/sansfire-2007-in-text-and-pictures/</link>
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		<title>The things they forgot to mention at WWDC 2007 - Leopard&#8217;s revised and new apps</title>
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So I installed , like many other people, the WWDC 2007 Leopard preview. I am still amazed by it, its a beauty and it runs on my latest , but lowest-in-class, generation Macbook Pro like a dream (2.2ghz Core 2 Duo). 
I am more then impressed by Spaces and by the new Finder. Time Machine [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/06/26/the-things-they-forgot-to-mention-at-wwdc-2007-leopards-revised-and-new-apps/</link>
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		<title>How to upgrade Ubuntu Server (6.06.1) to Feisty(7.04) in half an hour(incl vmware server)!</title>
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My server , Janus, was running the 64bit version of Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS. After my article of VMWare on Ubuntu server, I read that it is actually available for Ubuntu 7.04 in a repository. Great! So, what do we do, we upgrade to feisty. Well I have heard of a few horror stories of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/05/16/how-to-upgrade-ubuntu-server-6061-to-feisty704-in-half-an-hourincl-vmware-server/</link>
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		<title>Reflections, recent article happenings&#8230;</title>
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 This is more like a big thank you to everyone who actually has been reading my stuff&#8230;
I published several articles on tweako.com and  some of them became VERY popular. My Nokia N800 and N770 article got picked up, through tweako , by Tabletblog and Wired&#8217;s blog even.
I think this is great and again [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/05/10/reflections-recent-article-happenings/</link>
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		<title>Alternative Authentication with Mac OS X</title>
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Wow, finally someone that explains solutions, not just vaporware. Informit has a nice writeup about using smart-cards et all with Mac OS X. Now, if Apple would only build SC readers into their laptops.  And of course SC&#8217;s would be available for purchase for us normal folk&#8230; I would move my entire household to SC [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/28/alternative-authentication-with-mac-os-x/</link>
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		<title>Enterprise log management - a comparison of 3 big logging systems (Snare vs. Splunk vs. LogLogic)</title>
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No doubt that if you are working with large and medium sized servers and infrastructures, you have come across the need to collect logs and review or analyze them. With more servers the problem escalates as you have to log into every system to check the logs. It becomes very nice once you start having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/26/enterprise-log-management-a-comparison-of-3-big-logging-systems-snare-vs-splunk-vs-loglogic/</link>
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		<title>10 tips on how to write proper tech tutorials and guides - keep the readers happy!</title>
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This is a list of &#8220;guidelines&#8221; on how to write a proper tutorial. Comments are more then welcome on this subject as I think too many people think tutorials are just command steps lined up saying this will work, it worked for me. Too few tutorial writers take the time to lay out their guides [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/19/10-tips-on-how-to-write-proper-tech-tutorials-and-guides-keep-the-readers-happy/</link>
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		<title>Filesharing anonymous and how they try to catch you&#8230;Tor to the rescue!!</title>
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Torrentfreak.com has a nice writeup as to how a company called Logistep is &#8220;catching&#8221; online file sharers. this is limited to P2P, gnutella and eDonkey right now. Bittorrent is a bit of a shady thing still but I am asking this: How on earth are they proofing anything with this method? the easiest thing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/16/filesharing-anonymous-and-how-they-try-to-catch-youtor-to-the-rescue/</link>
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		<title>Basic Computer Security Help, Can I have a Tutorial?</title>
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In recent times the internet and all the computers attached to it have become more and more popular. Security is nowadays a big concern but there is no simple help or tutorial available. As I already explained in a previous post, Computer security is not a one-stop-buy. It is an ongoing topic and you really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/15/basic-computer-security-help-can-i-have-a-tutorial/</link>
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		<title>Pro and Con for living in Scandinavia as a technology geek!</title>
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So I live in Scandinavia and I have lived here many years but I think it is time to tell the world why it is a good place to live as a geek AND why it is a bad place. The fact is that every country has good and bad points but how does Scandinavia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/10/pro-and-con-for-living-in-scandinavia-as-a-technology-geek/</link>
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		<title>Ten popular security myths (among normal users) that are not true!</title>
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Over the years I have, like many other Security people out there, heard many many things regarding system and computer security. These are the top 10, starting from 10 to the top spot, myths that a lot of normal users and even managers believe.
 10 . When I save a file to My Documents, no-one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/05/ten-popular-security-myths-among-normal-users-that-are-not-true/</link>
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		<title>Snare and Splunk&#8230;full logging for everyone (Logs, manage them well on Ubuntu)</title>
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The task sounds simple:  Manage all events and logs from all your servers centrally and make them easily accessible.
The problem is a bit more complex: You have different operating systems and different logging facilities in all your (branch) offices.
The way to go: Unless you are a big corporation and can afford the LogLogic product [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/03/snare-and-splunkfull-logging-for-everyone-logs-manage-them-well-on-ubuntu/</link>
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		<title>Monthly OS Security scorecard: MARCH 2007</title>
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As promised, here is the roundup for March 2007 following the same principles and Operating Systems as in the original article EXCEPT that we added Windows Vista now.
Overall there hasn&#8217;t been much going on this month , EXCEPT a couple of days ago, the Windows animated cursor flaw. Granted the vulnerabilities and fixes ware a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.2blocksaway.com/2007/04/01/monthly-os-security-scorecard-march-2007/</link>
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