MASS CMR 201 17.00
New Regulations for Protection of Massachusetts Residents' Personal Information
Code of Massachusetts 201 17.00 deals with the protection of personally identifying information. These guidelines were enacted as law, and deal with information security standards and notification of security breaches. The laws apply to businesses that "own, license, store or maintain personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ". Massachusetts is not the first state to enact such laws, but rather has followed along with the new trend- creating regulations based around information security and the protection of state residents. This article outlines the law, what is required and how it ties in with other data protection regulations.
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.msp files eating up disc space
noticed that its 20 GB primary partition was low on disc space. There was nothing immediately obvious as to the cause, so I broke out the windirstat utility. This gives a visual representation of the file system, using different sized blocks to identify large files, and color codes each file to show the data type. This great utility immediately pointed out some large files with the .msp extension that were taking up 5GB of space on the disk.
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Playing back .vox files using Winamp
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Vertical Televantage Information
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Terminal Services Speed Tweaks
A collection of registry tweaks to increase the speed and delivery of Terminal Services.
