Flash Memory: Pick a CardMost digital cameras, music players, and PDAs use flash memory cards to store data. These small media cards hold anywhere from 8MB to 1GB of data, and they are remarkably inexpensive—currently about 50 cents per megabyte. At such prices, flash memory is spreading fast and even nibbling at the small-hard-drive market.

One thing that makes Windows such an effective platform is its great flexibility: Nearly everything that (on the surface) seems to be hard-coded can be tweaked, turned off, or reconfigured. To that end, Windows XP has the Group Policy Editor (GPE), a tool that lets you not only tinker with the OS but also lock down many of its vulnerabilities.

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There are now 1,740 known, unpatched security flaws in Windows and other operating systems, according to statistics collected by US-CERT, a nonprofit security coordination center. That’s more than a 300% increase over the 417 vulnerabilities that were known to researchers as recently as 1999. More info “

InformationWeek > Windows XP SP2 > Langa Letter: How To Save an Hour (Or More) On XP Installs > September 20, 2004

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