Monthly Archives: February 2012
Beauty of Munnar
Been to Munnar, kerala almost a year back! Its time to head back there again. Water dripping down from the hill making the mountain looks like silver
The icy river
Via Flickr:
The icy river at the beginning of summer! On the way to Leh from Manali, After Rotang pass.
Email collaboration for enterprises and Zimbra
When we think about email collaboration/unified messaging the first things comes into our mind is Microsoft exchange, probably not because they pioneered email collaboration but because they have great success of with all enterprise segments, more importantly the end users to felt the impact of email collaboration. Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 was released at 1996 something that could be integrated to directory services; it was probably the first competitor to Lotus notes released in early 90s.
Let’s not forget novel. In 1990 brought the release of WordPerfect Office 3.0, adding Macintosh and UNIX to the client mix and supporting multiple servers with cross-server email, calendaring and scheduling. The next version 3.1 even included remote sync.
Today’s email Collaboration / Unified messaging
Today when try to understand email collaborative software, we think about something more than email and address book. It is also called unified messaging. Enables us to share calendar events and task lists, update presence information, advanced email routing, global/corporate address book, sharing documents and other media without having to attach it, email auto responders; most importantly, access to all these through push notification support from of your favorite desktop collaboration application, mobile, tablet, or just any web browser. Email collaboration systems are also expected to be integrated with the directory services as well as other collaboration system running within the enterprise.
Things we take for granted, antivirus, anti spam, central authentication, high availability, monitoring, backup etc.
Random Heart beat
Heart beat is your new encryption key!
According to New Scientist every ones heartbeats in a very unique rhythm. It is so unique that there is no chancing of you beating the same beat twice. An electrocardiograph (ECG) would know the difference. They shall probably use your bit to create a secret key.
This is how it works: some of you might remember when you are generating a certificate the computer asks you to move your mouse of do some keyboard activity to generate random number to start creating that unique key to encrypt.
Microsoft Store India has been hacked! So did your Password!!!
Password! Password!! Password!!!
What is worse then having a week password? Storing your password in clear text. Fortunately/Unfortunately It is nothing to do with you.
WP Sauce reports an attack took place yesterday, with the EvilShadow team replacing the front page to Microsoft’s online India store
with a page called evil.html. The site is still currently down.
What is a SAN?
What is a SAN?
A storage area network (SAN) is a dedicated high performance network provides access block level to Data. The in modern day data is stored in an array of hard disk drives or solid-state drive or a combination of both.
This Storage area network is usually separated from the local area network for performance and security reasons.
Over a SAN there is no access to the file systems directly; rather they are access able in a block level. The operating system will think as if the disk is attached to it directly and the access is going to be block level. A SAN can be shared across many servers.
