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Rantings in the digital wind as your Grot Shop of the information age. "I didn't get where I am today without recognising a completely useless machine when I see one" - C.J.
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Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
Let me say that I known nothing about music, musical notes, composing, etc. However, I have played with Soundtrack (as part of Final Cut Pro 4) and it is very cool. it's easy to start using, and addictive to play with. It changed my mind about how to add music in certain parts of videos I was editing together. There may be other programs out there which do the same thing, but it sure was a nice surprise trying something like this for the very first time.
Apple introduces Soundtrack as standalone product. Apple today announced that Soundtrack, its royalty-free music production tool previously available only with Final Cut Pro 4, will be available in August as a standalone product for US$299... [MacMinute.com: Up-to-the-Minute Apple Mac News]
2:44:44 PM 
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This was a good summary of the wrong thinking we do about firewalls and network security.
Firewalls are broken. Firewalls are predicated on the notion that trustworthy people are inside your network and untrustworthy people are outside your network. Despite the obvious untruth of this -- the CEO goes home with her laptop and is treated as untrustworthy; an employee opens a trojan and has his box r00ted by a script-kiddie in Belarus, and is still treated as trustworthy -- we persist in using them, and then get surprised when they fail.
Take this example: employees who work remotely can penetrate the firewall through VPN tunnels. But these employees are on home-networks that might be connected to cablemodems (and hence to all the other users in the neighborhood), or have other security failures at home that can act as a back-door into the network.
And since the firewall means that everyone inside the network is trustworthy, the inward-facing servers and machines often have crap passwords and out-of-date security and use unencrypted protocols, sending passwords and data in the clear. As soon as the intruder gets inside the network, it's fox in the henhouse time. Rather than securing each machine with its own perimter and fall-back defense, the best practice is often to build a high, tight fence around the network and point all your security outside it.
Is it any wonder, then, that teleworkers are now being identified as security risks?
"It doesn't matter how much money businesses invest in securing their corporate network if employees are accessing the network from home with insecure systems.
"It's like securing the front of your house with the latest alarm but leaving your back door open."
(Actually, I'd say it's more like putting bars on the window of the bank but not buying a safe to keep your money in)
Link
Discuss [Boing Boing Blog]
1:48:32 PM
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Beware when the stormtroopers arrive to haul you off or serve sentence on destroying your computer. Can't we just stop stealing music and save the stormtroopers for spammers?
House proposal targets file swappers. Several representatives sponsor a bill that puts peer-to-peer users who swap even a single copyrighted file in danger of becoming federal felons. [CNET News.com]
1:32:36 PM
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Indie Auteurs Bond With Software. Fans of Final Cut Pro, Apple's popular digital video-editing system, see themselves as more than just filmmakers. They're guerrillas fighting the banality of mainstream Hollywood. Michelle Delio reports from the Macworld Expo in New York. [Wired News]
1:20:34 PM
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Is it just me, or would it have been better to be renamed to Maya rather than Alias? Seems like Alias is the anti-identity...
New 'Alias' for Alias|Wavefront. Silicon Graphics Inc. subsidiary Alias|Wavefront is celebrating its 20th anniversary by announcing a corporate identity change from "Alias|Wavefront" to simply "Alias." The previous "Alias|Wavefront" identity was created in the mid-90s when Alias Research and Wavefront Technologies were both acquired by Silicon Graphics Inc. Both companies had developed various tools for 3D graphics and animation. Alias makes Maya, a popular 3D rendering and animation software used in film, video game development, and other markets. [MacCentral]
12:55:55 PM
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Interestign reading about the threat of being lax when it comes to security.
The Age: The cyberspace invaders. Ironically, both sides in the cyber terrorism debate - those who warn that governments and businesses are not doing enough to protect essential computer systems and those who claim the threat of genuine cyber attack are overstated - use the Boden case to further their positions. [Tomalak's Realm]
11:07:17 AM
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Linus speaks. More about 2.6 and future directions.
Q&A: Torvalds gets down to the kernel. As Linus Torvalds begins his new job at the Open Source Development Lab, he looks ahead to where Linux is going, talks about his concerns about the SCO/IBM fight, and explains what technologies he'd like included in Linux down the road. [Computerworld News]
10:54:42 AM
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I may come as no surprise that another flaw has been found, but make sure to update for this. It's amazing how many people know about the problems, and generally know how run the update, but just plain dont. It's sad that it takes them getting hit with something, maybe osing all their data, before they get serious about their machine. In the GROT spirit, it may be suggested that viruses and machine hijacking may provide a valueable social service, as Perrin would say.
Microsoft warns of critical Windows flaw. The software giant issues a patch for a security hole that could allow an attacker to take control of computers running any version of Windows except for Windows ME. [CNET News.com]
10:49:28 AM
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Here's a great opportunity to switch from the now no-longer-supported Adobe Premier over to Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro.
Apple updates Hot Deal section with Premiere, games info. Apple today updated the Hot Deals section of its online store with information about new special offers for Mac users, including the recently announced Premiere switch offer. Calling the specials "The Premiere of Three Great Deals," the Hot Deals site outlines the three new options to drive creative professionals to adopt Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express, the professional and hobbyist-level digital video editing solutions by Apple. [MacCentral]
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