. . . continued from July 31 , 2005 Show Notes GoBack v3 & 4 Problems Can't figure out the system requirements for GoBack? Symantec's tech support pages have all the information right here. Remember also that choosing to do a Custom installation of GoBack 4 allows you to increase the size of the cache which contains all the restore data. The larger the cache size, the farther back in time you'll be able to go.

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No Color Capture from Belkin's USB 2.0 Hi-Speed DVD Creator?

To effectively and accurately capture video you need RAM—lots and lots of RAM. And you need bandwidth—lots and lots of bandwidth. Belkin's system requirements don't represent the real needs of full DV video capture. We recommend at least a 600MHz or faster Pentium III (but a Pentium 4/2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 3200—or faster—are better). No matter what processor you're using, make sure you've got at least 512MB of RAM—1GB or more is better. Do not waste your valuable time trying to capture video via USB 1.0 or USB 1.1 or USB 2 Full-Speed connections. Capture only via USB 2.0 Hi-Speed or Firewire 400 or Firewire 800 connections. If you don't have a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed or a Firewire connection on your computer, purchase one of the many inexpensive ($20-$40) PCI add-on cards. You won't be sorry.

Will Namo Web Editor 6 Do What This Guy Wants?

Well we don't know for sure, but if you've got specific needs for any web editor or web design software, the Namo Web Editor v6 may do the trick. You can find the Namo Web Editor feature and function list right here.

KSN Interview

Interview with Jonathan Zdziarski, author of Ending Spam

Jonathan doesn't have a whole lot of confidence in most retail antispam products, so he suggested a number of open source and a couple of commercial products:

• PopFile: An automatic mail classification tool. Once properly set up and trained, it will scan all email as it arrives and classify it based on your training. You can give it a simple job, like separating out junk e-mail, or a complicated one—like filing mail into a dozen folders. Think of it as a personal assistant for your inbox.
• DSPAM: The DSPAM (as in De-Spam) Project is a scalable, open-source statistical anti-spam filter. While most commercial solutions only claim a mere 95% accuracy (1 error in 20), a majority of DSPAM users frequently see around 99.95% (1 error in 2000) and can sometimes reach peaks as high as 99.991% (2 errors in 22,786, as with one particular user).
• CRM114: A system to examine incoming e-mail, system log streams, data files or other data streams, and to sort, filter, or alter the incoming files or data streams according to the user's wildest desires.
• SpamProbe: Uses Bayesian analysis of the frequency of words used in spam and non-spam e-mails received by an individual person. The process is completely automatic and tailors itself to the kinds of e-mails that each person receives.
• IronMail: An appliance that provides comprehensive e-mail security combining the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and worm protection, policy and content compliance, e-mail privacy, and secure e-mail gateway capabilities into a single platform. Install the IronMail appliance between your mail server(s) and your network.

CipherTrust's IronMail product is definitely a commercial offering; the others are all open source and require some serious effort to get them up and running on non-Linux and non-Mac OS X computers.

We also found Postini which is a highly regarded and highly effective server/network solution for spam.

If all of this is just too much for you, take heart in the fact that Mac Mail (in OS X) and the latest updates to Microsoft Outlook 2003 are really quite good when it comes to dealing with spam. They're not as good as Zdziarski's recommendations, but they'll still significantly reduce your spam load without a lot of manual intervention on your part. Remember also that good antispam solutions should be accompanied by good (and regularly updated) antivirus solutions.

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