We take a look at Windows 7

Windows 7. In some neat summary: It's Vista, but the view we wanted in 2007. Pulido, working, ready to throw in, and with the endless UAC indications banished forever what the hell they are intended to send well-intentioned, but ultimately, attempts to help us insufferable not know exactly when but we're pretty sure Oprah record a chat session is presented here.

Unlike Microsoft's previous operating system, Windows 7 is a massive public beta. You may have downloaded, and if not, at least at the time of writing you can get a product key on the website, where a 'friend' that happened throughout time have downloaded. Even if you do not want to risk a beta OS on your computer, this is a good sign that we are not going to be waiting a long time to complete the code and will be incredibly worth the short wait. Even now, it's incredibly stable, fully functional, more reliable and has the right to be.

This not only means that the final version should be good to get out of the box, every developer and hardware manufacturer out there is playing with the same code developed for the drivers, updating and installation of systems in general, is preparing to go . This is particularly important because many of the initial problems were the result of seeing the rest of the industry is slow to adapt to it, compared to the problems with the operating system itself. Not only is the basic platform of the same, thereby reducing the potential compatibility issues, there is no excuse for anyone not ready. Our laptops now feature 3D graphics support to handle Aero. Our teams of laughter in the face of system requirements. Put him on netbooks? Perhaps it might work in toasters.

The most visible change is the new interface of Windows Vista 7. The Start menu is more or less the same, but the taskbar is a continuum Quick Launch bar that keeps all of its programs in front of you. Changes things more than expected, especially if you keep forgetting to do things like putting your photos into a gallery, or browse with multiple windows open at once. In general, change is good - but can be problematic at times. In particular, it is difficult to distinguish between clicking on an icon to start a program, an active program, and an active program with multiple windows. Several applications also feature minor peculiarities. As just one example, if you are using Firefox and closed after a download, clicking on the icon will only appear from the table of downloads. Vista simply a new window. Easy.

Most of the interface changes are focused on the adaptation of the standard interface. Windows 7 is much better in the service of content and links to recently used folders, such as the jump from the lists at the top of their menus. Another feature that is lost each time you return to Windows 7 is Vista's upgrade service panel, where you can enter and turn off things like an icon in Control Panel or upgrade, or at least tell us they do not appear unless you have something to tell you. This eliminates the large amount of property, if it is true that our proposed method and the transmission of pain to any shock programmers who insist on giving their bloody update a program on our computers' memory. (Do not ask for the second offense ...)

Finally, at least for now, the windows Windows 7 really is much smarter. Drag one of the top of the screen is maximized. Break and returns to its original size. It's a snap to fill half a screen, or "look" through it on your desktop, all at the touch of a key or mouse to explore.

Windows 7, while the operating system updates itself, not everything in Vista has made the cut. The Ballyhoo well, but rarely used the sidebar is gone, for instance, usurped by the almost equally neglected gadgets, which now has the race instead of the desktop. Tools such as Photo Gallery, Windows Mail, Windows Calendar and Windows Movie Maker are also missing in action, with the idea that just download the free Windows Live package, which fits a variety of online services for Microsoft. This is not a problem, however, and this means that when you download, at least you have the latest version with new features. It also means that Microsoft has more of an incentive to keep building them instead of holding the 8 for Windows.

Despite the cuts, most applications still classic and updated for the new version. If you like the tape in Microsoft Office 2007, you will be happy to see its inclusion in the new WordPad. If not, well, bad news. The painting has also been an update, dragging it kicking and screaming in, oh, at least 1992. In this heady pace of progress, we're ready to rock the world of art with the latest image editing about five minutes before the heat of the sun kills everything. So it's something we look forward to.

In theory, then we are in a good news. However, the devil is in the details - and that will always be subjective. Speaking personally, and have used Windows 7 for a couple of months, I will be gathering at the launch. Showstopper my only fault is that of a smaller volume of my control - I said that Windows 7 can not find my sound card, but this is not enough to prevent the reproduction of sound.

If there is one disappointment is that there is nothing in Windows 7, which leaves me personally do anything new or even a new form. Speech and handwriting recognition will not take over from the old mouse and keyboard at any time before, I'm too lazy to make proper use of My Documents on the desktop when it is available, and only happens if the evidence of my monitor is an unsightly fingerpint support multitouch. Definitely, there are features for users with more ambitious - new version of Media Center is particularly good - but overall, all things familiar.

However, here is what is important. We know a good way. It is known that after a couple of minutes, you're ready to use it and continue with your day. On several occasions when Vista was on the road with its new features and amazing ways to do everything that Windows 7 keeps to himself and brand distractions. That's what a mature platform with new features to be condemned, and why I am going to install on the computers of my choice, instead of the need I felt when I was talking about Vista and DX10 milestone changes. It is not just a shiny new, but a second much-needed change to the operating system Vista will be the standard PC for a while yet.

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Understanding of threats to Internet security

Understanding security threats on the Internet that are introduced into the habitat of the Internet

When browsing the Internet in the home or office, the team is exposed to the nature of the Internet where many types of threats that could cause the equipment to function properly. Unlike a large-scale network infrastructure company that provides information security management, computers in the home could be vulnerable to threats.

Definitions of threats programmed

The computers are designed to execute instructions one after another. These instructions are usually doing something useful to calculate values, maintain databases and communicate with users and other systems. Sometimes, however, instructions that are running can be harmful or malicious in nature. When damage occurs by accident, we call the code of a software error involved. The errors are perhaps the most common cause of unexpected behavior of the program.

But if the source of the damage from an individual plant is intended that the abnormal behavior occurs, the instructions call for malicious code, or a threat scheduled. Some people use the term to describe malicious software malware.

There are many different types of threats the program. The experts ranked the threats by the way they behave, how they are activated and how they spread. In recent years, the regular appearance of these threats have been described almost uniformly by the media as computer viruses and (in the more technical, media) worms. However, viruses and worms are a small fraction of malicious code that has been developed. Saying that all programs of data loss caused by the virus is so inaccurate as to say that all human diseases are caused by viruses.

Experts working in this area have formal definitions of all these types of software. However, not all experts agree on common definitions. Therefore, let's consider the following definitions of malware:

Security tools and tools

Usually designed to be used by security professionals to protect their sites, can also be used by unauthorized persons to find weaknesses. Rootkits are a special case: these are attack tools that install packages backdoor into the system once they have penetrated the security of the root account.

Backdoors

Sometimes called a trap door, allowing unauthorized access to your system. Backdoors, also called trap doors, are pieces of code written into applications or operating systems to grant access to software developers without going through the normal access of authentication methods. Rear doors and trap doors have been around for many years. Often written by application programmers who need to debug or half of the tracking code that is being developed.

Most backdoors are built into applications that require authentication or lengthy procedures that require a long setup user to enter many different values to run the application. When the program debugging, the developer can get special privileges or avoiding all the steps of configuration and authentication. The programmer may also want to ensure that there is a method of activating the program if something goes wrong with the authentication procedure that is being built into the application. The back door is the code that does not recognize some sequence of entry, or is activated when called from a user ID. Then, to access special grants.

Back doors become threats when used by unscrupulous programmers to gain unauthorized access. They are also a problem when the initial application developer forgets to remove a back door after the system has been refined and another person who discovers the existence of the door.

Logic bombs

Hidden features in programs that go after certain conditions are met. Logic bombs are programmed threats that are latent in the software of common use for a long period of time until they are triggered, at which time, the performance of a function that is not the function of the program in which they are contained. Logic bombs are typically embedded in programs by software developers who have legitimate access to the network.

Trojan Horses

The programs that seem to play a role, but actually perform another function (like the horse that was given to the Greek city of Troy, near the end of the Trojan War, a horse appeared to be an idol, but was actually a troop transport). Similar to its name, today Trojan horses resemble a program that the user wants to perform, for example, to access, a game, spreadsheet or editor. While the program seems to be doing what you want, you are actually doing something else unrelated to its advertised purpose, and without knowledge of the user. For example, the user may think that the program is a game. While it is printing messages about the initialization of the database and ask questions like "What is the name of your player?" and "What level of difficulty, you want to play?", the program can be really delete files, reformat the disk, or the fate of the confidential documents to a site in Argentina. Everything the user sees, until it is too late, is the interface of a program that the user is trying to execute. Trojans are, unfortunately, sometimes used as jokes in some environments. Often planted as a cruel trick of the hackers on web sites and distributed among people and sharing software.

Virus

A true virus is a sequence of code that is inserted into other executable code so that when the regular program is executed, the virus also executes the code. The viral code causes a copy of itself to be inserted in one or more other programs. Viruses are not separate programs that can not run on their own, and some host that is run to activate.

Worms.

Worms are programs that spread from computer to computer over a network, without changing other programs on the target machine. Worms are programs that can run independently of the machine and travel to the machine through the network connections, the worms may have portions of them run on many different machines. They do not change other programs, but may have other code that does (eg, a virus of truth).

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VaultWiki - vBulletin Reimaginamos Wiki

VaultWiki has been the only commercial solution explicitly vBulletin forum owners to launch a wiki since its launch in 2008. Since that time, free lite alternatives have emerged, and have circulated some bad reviews about the product - specifically in relation to ease of configuration issues.

Today, the eggs cracked Studies launched a new series in the VaultWiki family VaultWiki 2.5.x. Despite having developed almost in secret, 2.5.X is probably one of the largest and expected changes in the product so far.

Many of the changes we see in VaultWiki 2.5.X were, until recently, 3.x, scheduled for later this year. However, it would only be compatible with 4 vBulletin 3.x, which seems to have been delayed for at least another 2 months. And rather than force their customers to update and wait for a new product vBulletin, cracked eggs along 2.5.x. Studies

The level of difficulty for customers new to wikis in general has been historically high. In his own fault, cracked eggs Studies waited almost a year before compiling all the official documentation for VaultWiki. However, even with documentation, VaultWiki remains a complicated product to set up, to the frustration of many users - is "Namespacing" to be particularly difficult.

Previously, users create the wiki wiki forum categories and forums, edit each name names Manager, find that their forums were not valid, they have to use different settings, and then move to another area of the AdminCP VaultWiki names that say it is.

In 2.5.X, VaultWiki the installation process has been simplified names. Restrictions on the wiki forums have been removed, so most of the new forums will be available in the Name Manager. If an administrator wants to use a new forum, rather than jumping to the Forum Manager, the administrator can choose a "Create a New Forum" option. To configure the namespaces as "default", "Category", "image" or, instead of jumping to the Options page in vBulletin, the file appears in the form of building names, and may be changed later by the Website Manager names.

Another source of confusion has been the use of books. In the past, an editor would have to visit another name and create a gap in the books before they try to add any chapters. However, if there is a book, an editor, you can select "Add a new book's chapter-being.

VaultWiki has always boasted about its search engine optimized URL structure. Unlike most default vBulletin URL VaultWiki uses the page title on the road. In the past, the URL of the wiki page using a URL coded in PHP function, thereby changing the spaces and special characters + sign in a string of numbers% and forgettable.

2.5.X now VaultWiki eliminate the use of special characters in place of the rules, configurable via the new URL Manager Wiki. Administrators can now choose to replace the blanks with the characters -, _, or + characters. The new URL is compatible with the old URL, which means that any bookmarks "permanently redirect to the new location.

However, the new coding processes give rise to new constraints. Since many characters are stripped or converted to other, it is possible to have multiple titles at the same URL. For this reason, we now control the names of the existing articles on the basis of the encrypted channel and not the original title.

In the past, many editors of the articles created with similar titles to be redirected to one of the main articles. While this practice is still supported, some of the current automatically redirected to the main section to be resolved under the new URL of the application. Help managers to address this issue, the new administrator of the Wiki list of URLs of pages that must be solved at the same URL, and provides the tools to update or remove those pages.

VaultWiki 2.5.X attempts to reduce memory consumption and improve processing speed in a number of areas. The list of items in the cache as needed now, new fields of the database have been added to help the questions previously expensive, and many loops have been simplified or eliminated completely.

To save disk space and improve response times of the consultation, the revised text of former article is compressed in the database. In some tests, this resulted in a 80% to save disk space.

Users can now report offensive or SPAM wiki articles to moderators vBulletin using built-in reporting system. This link has been added to the dropdown menu next to each item in the title.

VaultWiki now follows suit with other vBulletin addons and added a copyright notice in the footer of every page that initializes the wiki. An additional fee must be paid to remove this notice.

Cracked egg Studios offers improvements on many fronts VaultWiki 2.5.x. Some of the code changes should increase the performance of the site, and the new Wiki URL encoding should result in better SERPS in the old URL. Although the name changed to the configuration and management of the books seem to simplify things, it remains to be seen how they react to new users.

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