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ZSync is an open source syncing library designed to allow easy syncing of data between an iPhone/iPod Touch and the OS X Desktop. - Fred Medlin

"But what really made a difference is shutting off services by default. Many of the vulnerabilities exploited in Windows 98, NT and 2000 were actually a result of unused services that were active by default." - Fred Medlin

Scientists aren’t sure why sleep exists at all, which has made it hard to explain the great diversity of sleeping habits and quirks in birds, fish and mammals of all kinds, including humans. - Fred Medlin

It's not until someone takes the time to break it that the engineer could realize that he didn't do as good a job as he thought. Remember: Anyone can design a security system that he himself cannot break. - Fred Medlin

We act as if the biggest risk to startup success is that the technology won’t work. But in reality, most products fail because they are the Ice Cream Glove, that is, because there are no customers who will buy them. - Fred Medlin

Whenever an employer or recruiter collects personal background information on a candidate, that action triggers a raft of legal obligations under the Privacy Act. Those obligations include that an employer must inform the candidate that they have gathered personal information as well as explain the purpose for which the information was gathered and to whom it may be disclosed. - Fred Medlin

Alex Stamos, an iSec Partners researcher present at BlackHat brought up the issue of data encryption. He noted that many cloud providers do not offer encryption for their service. In a presentation done along with Andrew Becherer and Nathan Wilcox, they discussed a little-known flaw in virtual computing - virtual machines don't always have enough access to the random numbers needed to properly encrypt data. - Fred Medlin

Good password analysis summary that I used for some FIPS 140 certification docs - Fred Medlin

Sample email signup pages with Campaign Monitor - Fred Medlin

Converting a sole proprietorship to LLC - Fred Medlin

Here I give you an example, showing you how to handle scheduling with multiple customers. - Fred Medlin

Solutions like McAfee Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and end-to-end encryption are great technologies that can help mitigate risk. Other emerging technologies to evaluate could be CipherOptics‘ tunnelless encryption and APANI’s EpiForce. - Fred Medlin

I'm definitely going to get my backups in order... - Fred Medlin

transport - Fred Medlin

Ambient music generator for iPhone - Fred Medlin

Technology policy trends, insight and news - Fred Medlin

Technology policy trends, insight and news - Fred Medlin

More examples of constraint infected! - Fred Medlin

Design doesn't scale well, so smaller design firms are more efficient in practice. - Fred Medlin

Researchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally (or collaboratively) and innovatively. - Fred Medlin

Nice list of music related sites and business models - Fred Medlin

So, find a Ruby program who knows some Java libraries or find a Java programmer who's done some moonlighting with Rails or Python or JavaScript and you've got a developer who can pick up Scala in a week. - Fred Medlin

Simple instructions for making 64 bit Java SE 6 the default for Mac OS X Leopard - Fred Medlin

Joel rants on Groove - Fred Medlin

Jazz and music webzine - Fred Medlin

Awesome. Fluid is another kind of reader. - Fred Medlin

Story by Joanna Kakissis about Michael Andrews - Fred Medlin

Inside of every large capacitor, there is a small capacitor screaming to get out - Fred Medlin

I heard of companies trying to do this years ago during the Ford administration when inflation got bad. They had to stop because defacing US currency is illegal. /tinyurl.com/zcdas> Yeah, I saw the earlier comments. Just my, uh, 2 cents... - Fred Medlin

Test gear connections gone wild! - Fred Medlin