Spent some time this weekend with the wife, and spent some time away from tech stuff, which was needed to get away from my tech frustrations at least. The other frustrations I was feeling on Friday were professional and they’re not going to change any time soon, that’s for sure, but at least I don’t feel like never touching a computer again. *L*
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Some interesting points raised by this article about the legalities of wireless access. I think the ending is probably right on: But ultimately if we want to move to ubiquitous wireless computing, where you can use the WiFi protocols for cheap, mobile VOIP communications, or have near universal wireless Internet access, we are going to…
So I took a look at Robert Scoble’s entries from last night and he says some interesting things. Of course he sounds exactly like you would expect a guy in NEC Sales to sound, which makes you wonder if he’s being honest or just a corporate shill, I’ve met Robert and I think he’s probably…
A review of those Microtel/Lindows boxes you can get from Walmart. I think this article gets it right on Linux as a home OS. Until there’s a version of Linux that works “out of the box” it’s not a serious threat to Windows on the consumer front. As of right now, if you want to…
Found via last night’s Tech Support Alert newsletter, F-Secure has made available a beta version of Backlight, a rootkit scanner/revealer for free, until July 1, 2005. This is a great chance to scan all of your home PC’s for free over the next couple of weeks. I’d have to recommend taking advantage of that! Tags:…
For all you user-support folks out there, here’s a question for discussion. We all know that keeping the lines of communication open between users and IT staff is an important part of any tech support operation. If people are afraid to come to you with questions, that’s bad for everyone involved. Sometimes that means saying…
Just a request, and maybe you can provide an explanation of why this happens too. Can you please train the lawyers and legal assistants that you work for to actually attach a document when they’re sending it to an outside entity, like the one I work for? I’m really tired of getting yelled at by…