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Exmerge has a small bug

When you export items with exmerge to an pst file and you try to limit the mail items by setting the date, items from dumpster will always be exported. Thats my rant of today.

How to make your windows network more secure using www.OpenDNS.org

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Well this one is really simple. On your windows 2003 server go to DNS right click the server go to your forwarders and add the opendns dns servers. Also go to your root hints tab and remove those. (did you ever check if the default root hints are still valid nah I know, if you use em you should also update them) Now for all your outgoing lookups the windows server queries the opendns servers. Why is this safe? Block the bad sites and whitelist the good. Phishing Protection We operate PhishTank.com, the world's most trusted source of phishing data. We integrate that data into an intelligence feed on our DNS servers to keep everyone on your network safe from phony sites trying to steal personal information. Domain Blocking You want to secure your network and have control over what resolves. We give you that control by providing the tools to block any website or DNS zone on the Internet, all through an easy-to-use interface.

Truecrypt 5.0 Released

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Ok this is really a significant improvement!!! I really love the pre-boot authentication. download links below New features: Ability to encrypt a system partition/drive (i.e. a partition/drive where Windows is installed) with pre-boot authentication (anyone who wants to gain access and use the system, read and write files, etc., needs to enter the correct password each time before the system starts). For more information, see the chapter System Encryption in the documentation . (Windows Vista/XP/2003) Pipelined operations increasing read/write speed by up to 100% (Windows) Mac OS X version Graphical user interface for the Linux version of TrueCrypt XTS mode of operation, which was designed by Phillip Rogaway in 2003 and which was recently approved as the IEEE 1619 standard for cryptographic protection of data on block-oriented storage devices. XTS is faster and more secure than LRW mode (for more information on XTS mode, see th