Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) Card Skimming photos

There has been a bit of exposure in the news recently, of Automatic Teller Machine fraud.  Aka Card Skimming and PIN capturing.  Up to 1,000,000 dollars has been obtained by the crooks in Melbourne.  Card Skimming is where criminals copy the magnetic stripe off your card, and make a duplicate card.

Now I know [...]

But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

Good luck, old lad.  Don’t listen to anyone who tells you that you can’t do this or that.  That’s nonsense.  Make up your mind, you’ll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything.  Go to school, join in all the games you can.  Go anywhere you want to.  But never, [...]

LastPass does form filling!

It was an article from Jesper Johansson* which finally got me using LastPass as a password manager.

I use LastPass* for most of my web logons.

This is why:

each website has a complex, unique password. I only need to remember one long password. I can access the password list at work. it’s [...]

Straying from the path …

Straying from the path is straying into unknown lands.

So true in many things, but in this particular case, Zeke Odins-Lucas was talking about how to call shlwapi, in his Free Associations MSDN blog.

Week of Motorcycling - The Rejects

One reader said, “Week of Motorcycling.  How long is that post series going to last …”

These were the one’s I didn’t use as none of the things in the picture have happened to me.

Welllll, except for Chrome (but not on a Harley) and ZOMFG (not on a race track though).

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Performance Management, the one where we pay lip service to the concept.

At my last employer, there was a focus on “Performance Management”.  I always felt, even as a team leader, that we paid lip service to the whole process. eg.  we were going though the motions.

Performance Management has many goals.  The primarily one is to ensure that the team is working towards/contributing to [...]

… an inappropriate mental model …

… the formation in his mind of an inappropriate mental model of the situation he was encountering.

- Casual factors associated with signal SB2209 being passed at danger.

The British have such a wonderful turn of phrase …

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2 and a bit reasons to wait for Windows 7

If you’re a business customer, thinking about making the upgrade from Windows NT4/2000/XP, I’d be waiting for Windows 7.

By all means, plan and test with Windows Vista, and then take the lessons that you learn, to apply for your Windows 7 rollout.

Here are 2 and a bit reasons why:

Reason 1 – [...]

The difference between genius and stupidity …

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

A sample Remote Desktop Control product policy.

Had a customer IT Security Team, let’s call them FREDNET, ask me for some advice on graphical desktop sharing and control system. Think VNC, Dameware, PC Anywhere.

Here is what I wrote up for them:

The Remote Desktop Control product (RDCP) must adhere to the following policies:

RDCP must not be able to connect [...]