Or you install the 2.5" drive into an external enclosure that still attaches via USB. Then you have the space for less money and in a form-factor that you're less likely to drop out of your pants pocket when you get up from the table at lunch.
I don't know what country you live in but in the USA the police DO need to tell you if they access your PC
That's not clear; they don't tell you about wiretaps either.
Oh, yes. It's quite clear. Voice wiretaps are a different story, by the way, and have nothing to do with the data that's on your computer.
And if you think Microsoft gives a toss about your My Documents folder I think you've overestimated the value of those documents.
Yes, and neither does Google. That's the point.
Google has more access than Microsoft does if you're using Google Apps to create/store your documents. I doubt they care either but I'm not entrusting confidential or mission-critical documents to any online app provider - whether it's Google, Microsoft or somebody else.
I don't know what country you live in but in the USA the police DO need to tell you if they access your PC. And if you think Microsoft gives a toss about your My Documents folder I think you've overestimated the value of those documents.
There are so many questions around "Cloud Computing" and SaaS when it's hosted by a web service.
* Where is your data? * Who has access to your data? * What happens to your data if the SaaS vendor goes out of business? * What happens to your data if the SaaS vendor discontinues the app? * What happens to your data if you have a dispute with the SaaS vendor? If you're late paying your bill or there is a disagreement about the fees charged? * What if your data is stored in a foreign country? Could you be subject to the laws of that country? What if there is political instability in that country? What if it's a country that is unfriendly to your country? * How do you perform compliance audits on a distant, disparate, data center? * Does your SaaS vendor respect your document retention and lifecycle policies? * How easy is it to take your data to a different vendor if you don't like the current one any more?...and about a hundred more.
What's destroying local knowledge is the video baby-sitters in the back-seat. When I was a kid we knew what our neighborhood LOOKED like. These days kids just stare at the screen in the headrest in front of them from the time they pull away until they get where they're going. I'll bet half of them couldn't find their way home if you dropped them off two blocks away.
Someone asked for suggestions and got several different ones. Again, if THIS crowd, whom I daresay is significantly more Linux-savvy than the average user off the street, can't agree upon which distro to put on the Netbook what chance does Joe the Plumber have?
THAT'S why Windows is the safe choice for Joe, because he understands it and doesn't have to try to figure out whether or not he'll need to recompile the video drivers to make it work.
We can argue whether Windows is technically inferior or not - at the end of the day Joe just wants to send e-mail, surf the web, generate a few letters, maybe access a business database or two and doesn't much care if he has a superior TCP/IP networking stack or not.
How "hugely expensive" can it be? I just got two brand new ASUS netbooks with Windows XP on them (granted, I reformatted and cleaned it off) for under $400 each.
Where are the "$1000 worth of license fees" in a $350 machine?
Here's the thing - if the Slashdot crowd is arguing about what distro to use on their Netbook what chance does the average user have?
THAT'S why they opt for Windows. Because the average user just wants to know what time it is, they don't want to have to select their own wheel train or debate which is a better oscillator. They just want to turn it on, click some pretty pictures, and do what they need to do.
For us geeks we can enjoy the nuances of this distro or that. My mom doesn't know what a "distro" is and doesn't care. She just wants to send e-mail to her sister and surf the web from time to time.
In fact that's exactly what I do. I create the outline in OneNote, maybe gather some research notes in it, but then send that content over to Word in order to do the actual writing.
Oh, right, anybody who doesn't blindly hate MS and Vista......of course you're an anonymous coward so I guess I don't have to take anything you say seriously.
Go to Sears and buy a couple of pairs of mens work boots in the biggest size you can find. Put them on the front porch. Tack a note on the front door that reads: "Bubba - Junior and I went to get more ammunition. You and Lefty stay away from them dogs; they ain't been fed yet and you remember what happened last time."
So if somebody is running their business on the free version of Google Apps and they have more downtime than the SLA allowed exactly what do they get? A refund?
And by the way, I'd like a list of those Exchange customers who are suffering 2.5 HOURS of downtime per month. Sounds like they should be about ready to change service providers...
I've sent e-mails without ever touching a keyboard - Vista Voice makes that pretty easy to do.
Oh, wait, I'm on Slashdot I forgot...what's the Linux analogue?;-)
Almost no local company I know has that functionality in place. I guess that means they all have less than half-decent PBXs?
Personally I think in the age of the nearly ubiquitous smart phone where you can even get your e-mail on an iPod Touch if you have access to WiFi I think calling your e-mail server to listen to your e-mail messages is a little pointless.
But I think it's an exaggeration to claim that any "half-decent" PBX can do it without the Exchange integration.
-B-
I'm not the least bit surprised; I see PCs and other equipment regularly donated or handed off without being wiped or with only a cursory wiping and plenty of potentially dangerous data still included.
One "IT expert" told me that he doesn't bother to do a forensic wipe of hard drives on machines he's donating (or that his clients are) because he doesn't want the hassle of reinstalling the OS and because he "never makes mistakes" when he selectively cleans off sensitive data. Yeah, right. That guy is going to be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal someday with a very sad look on his face.
Used devices need to be scrubbed as completely as possible if they are leaving the organization. Even if they're merely being disposed of.
I'd also like to be able to use it to capture product info (and pricing) into my own database.
I could envision creating a little inventory app for the household that would help you create your own shopping lists (you're low on detergent, have plenty of toilet paper, etc.) and then interface to a database of pricing that then builds a shopping list for you so that you know that you need to go to Store X to get these 8 items and Store Y to get these 5...
The bar codes just make it faster/easier to capture product information (as well as access reviews). Imagine if you just had to scan the barcode then input the shelf price in order to create your own comparison shopping list. My mom does that on index cards then types it into Excel - talk about tedious.
And not just low population density but low per-capita INCOME. It's not that hard to get your connectivity the last mile when you're Warren Buffet. It's not so easy when you're Dbenka Mtumbo and your annual income is measured in goats.
Well, after reading your post I collected several cats and put them in my car. Nothing seems to have happened to my mileage but two of them clawed up my upholstery and my dog doesn't like this one bit.
Upon re-reading your message however, I'm wondering if I needed to heat the cats before I put them in the car. Now I just have to work out how to get them to stand still long enough for me to do that.
-B-
Just because you erase 18 minutes of the tapes doesn't mean you still get to be President.
Anybody who has done any computer forensics work knows that it's not that hard to detect when there is more (or less) than there should be. And in many cases the penalty for keeping those kinds of secrets may be worse than just having the messages to begin with.
My original point is simply that this is a subject that DOES merit some thought and discussion in your organization so that you can try to have an intelligent plan for document (and message) retention.
I'm a little surprised to hear that you're able to use your VPN because when I was in China last October it wouldn't connect mine. As soon as I got to South Korea my VPN worked fine, though.
I assumed the Chinese were blocking it; but perhaps they weren't.
Doesn't really make sense to me that a gov't so paranoid about what people do on the Internet would allow encrypted tunnels outside of their country, though.
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Or you install the 2.5" drive into an external enclosure that still attaches via USB. Then you have the space for less money and in a form-factor that you're less likely to drop out of your pants pocket when you get up from the table at lunch.
Mediawiki lets me create a calendar that integrates with Outlook?
By the way, you can view SharePoint sites with Firefox. For those rare features you might need IE for you can just use the IEtab Add-on for Firefox.
You can also use OpenWriter or WordPerfect to edit Office XML format documents.
If you really want to.
I don't know what country you live in but in the USA the police DO need to tell you if they access your PC
That's not clear; they don't tell you about wiretaps either.
Oh, yes. It's quite clear. Voice wiretaps are a different story, by the way, and have nothing to do with the data that's on your computer.
And if you think Microsoft gives a toss about your My Documents folder I think you've overestimated the value of those documents.
Yes, and neither does Google. That's the point.
Google has more access than Microsoft does if you're using Google Apps to create/store your documents. I doubt they care either but I'm not entrusting confidential or mission-critical documents to any online app provider - whether it's Google, Microsoft or somebody else.
I don't know what country you live in but in the USA the police DO need to tell you if they access your PC. And if you think Microsoft gives a toss about your My Documents folder I think you've overestimated the value of those documents.
My $.02. Keep the change.
There are so many questions around "Cloud Computing" and SaaS when it's hosted by a web service.
* Where is your data? ...and about a hundred more.
* Who has access to your data?
* What happens to your data if the SaaS vendor goes out of business?
* What happens to your data if the SaaS vendor discontinues the app?
* What happens to your data if you have a dispute with the SaaS vendor? If you're late paying your bill or there is a disagreement about the fees charged?
* What if your data is stored in a foreign country? Could you be subject to the laws of that country? What if there is political instability in that country? What if it's a country that is unfriendly to your country?
* How do you perform compliance audits on a distant, disparate, data center?
* Does your SaaS vendor respect your document retention and lifecycle policies?
* How easy is it to take your data to a different vendor if you don't like the current one any more?
How stereotypically /. is this? We have a story about a security flaw in Linux and it somehow turns into a Microsoft-bashing session.
What's destroying local knowledge is the video baby-sitters in the back-seat. When I was a kid we knew what our neighborhood LOOKED like. These days kids just stare at the screen in the headrest in front of them from the time they pull away until they get where they're going. I'll bet half of them couldn't find their way home if you dropped them off two blocks away.
Someone asked for suggestions and got several different ones. Again, if THIS crowd, whom I daresay is significantly more Linux-savvy than the average user off the street, can't agree upon which distro to put on the Netbook what chance does Joe the Plumber have?
THAT'S why Windows is the safe choice for Joe, because he understands it and doesn't have to try to figure out whether or not he'll need to recompile the video drivers to make it work.
We can argue whether Windows is technically inferior or not - at the end of the day Joe just wants to send e-mail, surf the web, generate a few letters, maybe access a business database or two and doesn't much care if he has a superior TCP/IP networking stack or not.
As opposed to Windows which they've probably been using at work/school/home for a decade.
Where are the "$1000 worth of license fees" in a $350 machine?
THAT'S why they opt for Windows. Because the average user just wants to know what time it is, they don't want to have to select their own wheel train or debate which is a better oscillator. They just want to turn it on, click some pretty pictures, and do what they need to do.
For us geeks we can enjoy the nuances of this distro or that. My mom doesn't know what a "distro" is and doesn't care. She just wants to send e-mail to her sister and surf the web from time to time.
In fact that's exactly what I do. I create the outline in OneNote, maybe gather some research notes in it, but then send that content over to Word in order to do the actual writing.
Oh, right, anybody who doesn't blindly hate MS and Vista... ...of course you're an anonymous coward so I guess I don't have to take anything you say seriously.
Go to Sears and buy a couple of pairs of mens work boots in the biggest size you can find. Put them on the front porch. Tack a note on the front door that reads: "Bubba - Junior and I went to get more ammunition. You and Lefty stay away from them dogs; they ain't been fed yet and you remember what happened last time."
So if somebody is running their business on the free version of Google Apps and they have more downtime than the SLA allowed exactly what do they get? A refund? And by the way, I'd like a list of those Exchange customers who are suffering 2.5 HOURS of downtime per month. Sounds like they should be about ready to change service providers...
I've sent e-mails without ever touching a keyboard - Vista Voice makes that pretty easy to do. Oh, wait, I'm on Slashdot I forgot...what's the Linux analogue? ;-)
Almost no local company I know has that functionality in place. I guess that means they all have less than half-decent PBXs? Personally I think in the age of the nearly ubiquitous smart phone where you can even get your e-mail on an iPod Touch if you have access to WiFi I think calling your e-mail server to listen to your e-mail messages is a little pointless. But I think it's an exaggeration to claim that any "half-decent" PBX can do it without the Exchange integration. -B-
One "IT expert" told me that he doesn't bother to do a forensic wipe of hard drives on machines he's donating (or that his clients are) because he doesn't want the hassle of reinstalling the OS and because he "never makes mistakes" when he selectively cleans off sensitive data. Yeah, right. That guy is going to be on the front page of the Wall Street Journal someday with a very sad look on his face.
Used devices need to be scrubbed as completely as possible if they are leaving the organization. Even if they're merely being disposed of.
Well, what would you prefer to see instead?
I'd also like to be able to use it to capture product info (and pricing) into my own database. I could envision creating a little inventory app for the household that would help you create your own shopping lists (you're low on detergent, have plenty of toilet paper, etc.) and then interface to a database of pricing that then builds a shopping list for you so that you know that you need to go to Store X to get these 8 items and Store Y to get these 5... The bar codes just make it faster/easier to capture product information (as well as access reviews). Imagine if you just had to scan the barcode then input the shelf price in order to create your own comparison shopping list. My mom does that on index cards then types it into Excel - talk about tedious.
And not just low population density but low per-capita INCOME. It's not that hard to get your connectivity the last mile when you're Warren Buffet. It's not so easy when you're Dbenka Mtumbo and your annual income is measured in goats.
Well, after reading your post I collected several cats and put them in my car. Nothing seems to have happened to my mileage but two of them clawed up my upholstery and my dog doesn't like this one bit. Upon re-reading your message however, I'm wondering if I needed to heat the cats before I put them in the car. Now I just have to work out how to get them to stand still long enough for me to do that. -B-
Anybody who has done any computer forensics work knows that it's not that hard to detect when there is more (or less) than there should be. And in many cases the penalty for keeping those kinds of secrets may be worse than just having the messages to begin with.
My original point is simply that this is a subject that DOES merit some thought and discussion in your organization so that you can try to have an intelligent plan for document (and message) retention.
I assumed the Chinese were blocking it; but perhaps they weren't.
Doesn't really make sense to me that a gov't so paranoid about what people do on the Internet would allow encrypted tunnels outside of their country, though.
If you don't think this matters wait until you have to spend a week with a lawyer standing over your shoulder reviewing every message in your archive.