Despite numerous warnings, I had another staff person take the afternoon off and leave their email logged in today. This time I went a step further, I sent them an email from their own PC, and their own email account. Let’s see if that hits a little closer to home..
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Taken from a TechDirt posting: “A new study in the UK has come out saying that, while more companies are providing internet access to employees, a smaller percentage are using filtering technology to block out “inappropriate” sites. The article makes this out to be a terrible thing – suggesting companies don’t understand the risk.” Now,…
Various stuff I noticed while catching up: Walmart now has the Microtel PC’s with Mandrake. Now, this may prove to be more of an in-road to the consumer market than the Lindows version was, since Lindows isn’t even a finished OS yet! It’ll be interesting to see if this catches some market share or if…
Our telecom guy at work picked up one of these today. Given how often people come to him because they forgot their charger, or left their charger out of town and won’t have it for a few days, and just need to charge their phone, the ease of being able to hand them something that…
Kevin has the latest episode of his In The Trenches podcast up on his site. I quite enjoyed being part of the Tech Chat with Kevin, Kevin Mazur and Eric Maynard, chatting about the difficulties of dealing with dissimilar systems on your network. Eric put his show prep notes on his site, and I have…
Security holes found in PHP scripting language -Gee and it’s not even a Microsoft scripting language? Just goes to show, totally secure, bug-free stuff is not that easy! Britney Worm warning -It’s not very widespread now, but I’m willing to bet the same idiots who were dying to get a pic of Anna are the…
Part 1 is here. OK, so I did a little research, and found a few tools I thought my help me. I decided to tackle this one problem at a time. First, let’s get rid of that stupid desktop wallpaper. A quick trip to Display Properties then the Desktop tab, Customize Desktop and the Web…