Had an interesting thought the other day when talking to an attorney about e-discovery. We were talking about a situation that I’ve seen in the tech world all too often, where you have backup tapes, or other program data sitting around, with no way to actually read the data. Either the tapes are for a…
Apparently, 1 in 5 companies have already. I’m surprised it’s this high already, just one year after the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended, which made all relevant electronically stored information discoverable. I thought certainly, over time, we’d see some of this, especially with small companies that don’t have the IT resources to properly…
You may recall me talking about getting a free copy of this short book earlier this month. Today, I finally had some free time to read it at work. It didn’t take long, it’s only about 41 pages long, but I thought I’d share my observations about it. My initial thought was that the book…
Joe Wilcox does a good job of finding the FUD in Microsoft’s 10 reasons not to use Google Apps. I’d have to agree with him that Microsoft’s reasons are pretty dumb. One thing that does jump out at me though, is number 7: Enterprise companies have to constantly think about government regulations and standards?while Google…
From today’s WinXPNews. How to use the Cipher command to wipe data from your disk As you probably know, when you delete files off your Windows XP or Windows Vista computer, those files aren’t actually gone. The only thing that happens is that the “pointer” to the deleted files is removed and the space on…
I’m beginning to understand why so many people in work in litigation support sing the praises of IrFanView every chance they get. I had always considered the program as an image viewer with some other tools, but I didn’t realize just what awesome batch processing features it has. Today I was using the batch rename…