I saw a post by Jennifer Leggio today about locating network security folks on Twitter, and I wondered how many people who work in the legal technology field are using twitter or other social networking apps. In fact, following Jennifer on Twitter also helped me discover Twitterpaks, which is a wiki setup to encourage new…
Earlier today I had a random thought about Time Warner’s plans to test out tiered pricing for bandwidth. I started thinking about all those people who would be keeping track of their bandwidth usage on a daily basis, making sure they never went over the limit and had to pay extra charges for it. These…
I didn’t even realize you couldn’t use more than one signature in a message in Outlook 2007. I use that feature quite often for boilerplate messages at work, but we’re still using 2003 there. Thankfully, the latest edition of WinXP News has the way to continue to do this in Outlook 2007. How to get…
The latest issue of Tech Support Alert comes with some handy sites to bookmark. On one hand, they link to a couple of sites that allow you to check any downloaded files for malware using a number of anti-virus scanners at once before you run them: [1] http://virusscan.jotti.org/[2] http://www.virustotal.com/flash/index_en.html They also link to a site…
If you’re not in Ohio, maybe you haven’t paid much attention to the happenings of a certain intern and a stolen backup tape, so let me fill you in: – News reports a backup tape was stolen from an intern, working for the state’s, car. It is believed the tape has personal information, including SSN’s…
Saw this in Support Alert today, and thought it’s worth publicizing. As much as the common security advice is not to run as Admin, there are a number of tools that simply don’t work without the Admin rights. It’s frustrating. Programs That Won’t Run in a Limited User AccountWorking with a Windows limited users account…