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Whois Hijacking My Domain Research?
Friday July 21st 2006, 10:36 am
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Something fishy is up with Chesterton Holdings. How did Chesterton own a reader’s domain name and register it before she did? I ran some tests, picked three random names and checked them with CNet Domain Search page. 30 hours later I checked with a separate whois and determined the domains belonged to Chesterton, the same ad pages were displayed.

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Allied math nerds gleaned German WWII tank production from serial numbers
Friday July 21st 2006, 10:35 am
Filed under: News

This article shows that just by reading the serial numbers of captured German tanks Allied boffins figured out a simple formula to calculate German tank production. And the formula was correct to within a small number of tanks. Remember folks: sequential serial numbers leak information.

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Microsoft to make defragmenting automatic in Vista?
Friday July 21st 2006, 10:34 am
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“Now, according to Paul Thurrott, Windows Vista comes complete with an automatic defragmentation scheduler. The default is for the user’s hard drives to be defragmented at 4:00 AM every Sunday, when presumably most people won’t be doing other work on their computer.”

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