New Idea for Multi-Factor Authentication - PassWindow

Patrick in our office shot me the link to this really novel and innovative method of inexpensively providing multi-factor authentication or one-time passwords. The PassWindow product provides a personal card that acts like a "secret decoder" ring by allowing the holder of the card to see a one-time password for use on websites, credit cards and any other application that needs to protect from keyloggers, dictionary attacks etc.

Check it out, should be a snap to integrate with Oracle Access Manager (OAM) or Sun's Access Manager products. I'd be very interested in hearing others views on this solution.

Apollo 11 - Relive the Dream

It is really cool all the efforts going into celebrating the anniversary of mankind's journey to the moon. The website: Wechoosethemoon.org provides a wonderful re-play of the full Apollo Mission which is a great way to relive the excitement and anticipation and stress of the times.

It brings back wonderful memories and helps us remember that we as a people can aspire to perform great acts of courage when we place our collective minds and energies behind a vision.

Congratulations to the thousands and thousands of people who teamed together to bring about this great achievement.

Sun Virtual Box 3.0 - Updated

Just saw that there is an upgraded version of Sun's Virtual Box 3.0.2. You check out the latest bug fixes and the following enhancements:

This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual)
• Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual)
• Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests

at: Virtual Box 3.0 Change Site