This Week I Learned - Week #122

This Week I Learned -

Router malware is the ultimate man-in-the-middle attack. Beware of the router you are connecting to the Internet through. It could be compromised. As the amount of stuff we connect to the Internet grows, we have to understand that the Internet of Things is a bunch of tiny, powerful computers, too – and they need the same strong attention to security that our smartphones, laptops, and servers already enjoy.

* If you must access non-HTTPS websites, or you are not sure, always use a VPN. A VPN encrypts all your traffic, so you no longer have to worry about using HTTPS.

Ray Ozzie announced Windows Azure at PDC 2008, October 27

Under the Microsoft Product use Rights (PUR), Office and Windows 7 are not licensed to run on Virtual Machines.

Installing Hyper-V in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine is not possible. The hypervisor is a virtualization technique which allows to virtualize a machine directly on the host’s system, without having to go through the OS of the host.

There is a GUI tool to upload one or multiple VMs to Azure or if you don't have experience with Powershell or Azure.

Mani Ratnam on how he got the idea for his movie Roja -  “In one instance, the wife of an abducted engineer made a public appeal through the newspapers for his militant captors to release him. Her letter was Roja’s seed. I also drew upon a famous old Indian folk tale called Satyavani Savitri in which a saint’s wife pleads with the Lord of Death for her husband’s life. There was strangely a great emotional similarity between the condition of Savitri and that of the engineer’s wife, a connection out of which Roja grew.

The Millennial generation (born between 1980 & 2000) is the biggest in US history—even bigger than the Baby Boom

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