Windows Vista Security eBook

Get an early start on Windows Vista security and the technology shifts you’ll need to know as a systems administrator. From leading Windows expert Mark Minasi comes this “just-in-time” book to get you there.
This targeted, hands-on guide takes a rapid-fire approach to the biggest security changes and how they’ll affect business as usual for those who must integrate and provide technical support for Windows Vista.

You’ll find practical instruction, tips, workarounds, and much more.

- Work through a slew of Vista surprises, such as logging on as Administrator and how to re-enable Run
- Discover how virtualization works—and where it doesn’t
- Find out why you can no longer delete files in System32, even though you are an Administrator
- Get familiar with new post-boot security features such as PatchGuard
- Protect laptops to the max with the innovative BitLocker feature
- Meet the new Windows Integrity mechanism
- Explore the revamped Event Viewer, event forwarding, and new troubleshooting tools

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What is the “Invisible Web”?

The “visible web” is what you can find using general web search engines. It’s also what you see in almost all subject directories.

The “invisible web” is what you cannot find using these types of tools.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/InvisibleWeb.html

The first version of this web page was written in 2000, when this topic was new and baffling to many web searchers. Since then, search engines’ crawlers and indexing programs have overcome many of the technical barriers that made it impossible for them to find “invisible” web pages.

These types of pages used to be invisible but can now be found in most search engine results:

Pages in non-HTML formats (pdf, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), now converted into HTML.
Script-based pages, whose URLs contain a ? or other script coding.
Pages generated dynamically by other types of database software (e.g., Active Server Pages, Cold Fusion). These can be indexed if there is a stable URL somewhere that search engine crawlers can find.

Big Index of Technical Books

Maybe a bit geeky for some; not sure how long it’ll be live so grab any whilst you can… from here.

Index of Business Related eBooks

I’m not sure how long this one will be about for but you can review it today, from here.

The 48 Laws of Power

Grab yourself a PDF

There’s also a PDF of The 108 Skills Of Natural born Leaders here for anyone who’s interested.

Learning the game of power requires a certain way of looking at the world, a shifting of perspective,” writes Robert Greene. Mastery of one’s emotions and the arts of deception and indirection are, he goes on to assert, essential. The 48 laws outlined in this book “have a simple premise: certain actions always increase one’s power ... while others decrease it and even ruin us.”

The laws cull their principles from many great schemers—and scheming instructors—throughout history, from Sun-Tzu to Talleyrand, from Casanova to con man Yellow Kid Weil. They are straightforward in their amoral simplicity: “Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit,” or “Discover each man’s thumbscrew.” Each chapter provides examples of the consequences of observance or transgression of the law, along with “keys to power,” potential “reversals” (where the converse of the law might also be useful), and a single paragraph cleverly laid out to suggest an image (such as the aforementioned thumbscrew); the margins are filled with illustrative quotations. Practitioners of one-upmanship have been given a new, comprehensive training manual, as up-to-date as it is timeless.

100 words to make you sound smart?

It will need more than that for me, but here y’all go…

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The book includes a colorful variety of words, including handy words of just one syllable (such as glib) and words derived from the names of famous people (such as Freudian slip and Machiavellian).

There are expressions from popular culture (Catch-22) and words that date back to classical civilization (spartan and stoic). Each word is clearly defined and shown in context with quotations from contemporary sources: magazines, newspapers, broadcast media, movies, and television. For many words, quotations from distinguished authors and speakers are also given and word histories are explained.

Like its predecessors in this successful series this provides an affordable and enjoyable way to communicate more effectively. It offers the coveted gift of gab to anyone who needs to “say it right”—and to anyone who wants to sound more articulate.

VTC Facebook Application Development Tutorials

With over 200,000 users, Facebook® has become the dominant social networking platform. This course, taught by developer, teacher, and author Jesse Feiler, covers the ins and outs of developing your own Facebook apps using the Facebook API. Youíll see how to register your app to receive the necessary development and run-time keys from Facebook and how to set up your app on your own web server so that it can interact with Facebook. Ins and outs of news feeds, invitations, and interaction with Facebook user profiles are all covered. You’ll also see how to interact with your own database to merge Facebook data with your appís data.

Work files are included.

To begin learning today, simply click on the movie links.

For more information see here.

Download | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Not sure how long this will last …

Here’s a vast repository of books and magazines you may choose to browse.

Dummy’s books

PC magazines

PC books

PC shareware/freeware

WARNING; there is NSFW content, clearly marked, on the site - you have been warned ... !

Microsoft Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets

580 of the best Microsoft Windows Vista Sidebar Gadgets

Click here to download.

Maximum PC

I recently came across a nice set of links to PDF copies of MaximumPC articles.

The links are genuinely to the MaximumPC site, the downloads are fast and the files of good quality.

See the complete list here

Here’s the complete list in case you just want to grab them all;

http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1203-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0304-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0404-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0604-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0804-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0904-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1004-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1104-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1204-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0105-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0205-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0305-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0405-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0505-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0605-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0705-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0805-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0905-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1005-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1105-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1205-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0106-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0206-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0306-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0406-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0506-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0606-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0706-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0806-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0906-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1006-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1106-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1206-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0707-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0807-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0907-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1007-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1107-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1207-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0108-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0208-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0308-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0408-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0508-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0608-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0708-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0808-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0908-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1008-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1108-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1208-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0109-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0209-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0309-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0409-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0509-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0609-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0709-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0809-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/0909-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1009-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1109-web.pdf
http://dl.maximumpc.com/Archives/1209-web.pdf

What if your site becomes a crime scene?

If something has happened and spam has been sent out from your site, or if files were uploaded that are not yours, the first thing you should do is change all of your passwords. Next, look over your site for old installations and check the versions of all of your applications. Upgrade as necessary. The check Error Log in cPanel for any suspicious requests. Finally, raise a support ticket and as for my help. I can check what IP addresses have been accessing your space and retrieve final clues.

The truth is, it can happen to anyone - even if you think you have been extra careful. It normally takes one small break-in to truly realize just how desperately scammers search the web for holes. Any site is at risk, please remember that. The key things to remember will always be the importance of different passwords and the upkeep of any PHP applications you choose to install. Scammers are easily outsmarted so let’s keep them out!