Technology Investments

By Deborah Asbrand

Managing amid an economic slowdown is an inescapable fact of corporate life. For executives in all industries, it is as much a constant today as strategizing for growth and market-share gains tomorrow. But this recession brings with it a new and important wrinkle: IT, once considered a discretionary expense, is now the heartbeat of business.

The challenge of how best to invest in IT during a downturn is coming into sharp relief as leaders grapple with the dual tasks of managing IT costs while still spending to maintain efficiency and prepare for the return of market stability. That is, they are honing an IT function that is strategic, innovative, and thrifty.

Investing Strategically in IT

To keep up with the transactions that are the pulse of any company, some amount
of IT spending is fixed and always necessary. What is interesting, however, is that
despite the economic recession and widespread budget cutting, many experts today
predict the ongoing need for small IT budget increases.

DNA Genealogy on Internet

Why is genealogy so popular? Genealogy forms a bond to one’s heritage and by studying your genealogy, you can develop a greater sense of self. Studying genealogy can also be enlightening, revealing family stories that are surprising, entertaining, or even a little scandalous. If nothing else, learning your genealogy will ensure that when you say “I do” on your wedding day, it’s not to your cousin.

The Internet has made the genealogy process easier, increasing resources and decreasing time spent looking for information. You may even find that someone in your extended family has already done much of the work for you. Many individuals create websites with names and surnames that contain marriage and birth information. Try “googling” your full name and see if you can find it. From there, you can begin looking at the other surnames on your extended family tree and where they come from. Googling your family name or doing a WhitePages.com

Some of these sites have millions of records of names, birthdates, locations, and military records. Check each of these out to see if they have any info on your family names. For most you can get a free trial membership for a couple weeks and stay on if you really like the site. search can also put you in touch with other extended family members that may be able to help you with your ancestral search.

Mikrotik Password Recovery

Now, it's necessary to recovery the passwords without lost of configuration, while the admin have a recent backup of entire MT's system and put it in external storage beside of mikrotik machine itself. Such as a Flash Disk.

You can retrieve your forgotten password by this tool, just download-compile and follow the instructions, and the problem solved ;)

By the way, maybe you want to exploring what's inside of MT DOM ?, so, place the disk of Backtrack OS to your computer within DOM, and finally boot from it, read your DOM at rest. And you'd found something useful about MT OS by using Backtrack drive explorer, maybe could be your next invention of your research eh? :D

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Legendary Manifesto

Surfing around in the cyberspace, I've found this memorials manifesto from The Legendary MENTOR HACKER, this is some copied content from the original :

\/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/
by
+++The Mentor+++

Written on January 8, 1986
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Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...

Damn kids. They're all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

I am a hacker, enter my world...

Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...

Damn underachiever. They're all alike.

I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."

Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me...
Or feels threatened by me...
Or thinks I'm a smart ass...
Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here...

Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.

And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..."

I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...

You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals.
We explore... and you call us criminals.
We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals.
We exist without skin color, without nationality,
without religious bias... and you call us criminals.
You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.

+++The Mentor+++