Insider info will tell you that Lenova has already been seriously discussing how best to bring down their cost on laptop builds by outsourcing it to somewhere else like India or Pakistan, instead of China... this has been brought up in several IBM internal meetings. Maybe Lenova read a study that the underpaid Middle Eastern kids have smaller fingers then the under-paid Chinese kids, so they can work better with the ever-shrinking laptop circuitry...:)
I remember back about 5 years or so ago when Microsoft pulled all Samba tech support documents from their Support knowledgebase... luckily, I had printouts already. We all assumed the removal was due to increasing utilization of Samba, to the detriment of MS's PDCs, etc.
There's a better way to prevent brute force attacks, use something like SafeGuard Easy, a full disk encryption product (I use their product and do NOT work with the company, as an FYI), which has PBA (Pre-Boot Authentication) which can require either a smart card, a token, or a username/password immediately before the OS boots... throw AES-256 at it, and it'll be a long time (a very long time) before most could get at the data... of course, if the govt waits for you to boot up then hack at you from across the network, well, you'd better have some firewall & spyware & packet tracer software, and a good bit of time to watch the data streams... but, as long as you don't power up, you are safe! Haha!
For starters, I suggest that you look at products like Utimaco's SafeGuard Easy (AES 256-bit full disk encryption), SecureWave's Sanctuary (for device and port securing), and Kanguru's AES 256-bit encrypted thumb drives (gaining FIPS approval currently)...
Vendors like HP and IBM have vendor-specific technologies to protect instances of hard drives being stolen as well, but you need to use a third-party FDE (full disk encryption) to complement those products (plus the others I listed above)... those should get you started in th right direction.
Slashdot moderators posted this story for what reason? Are they all 8 years old with a 6 year old sense of humor... this is the most moronic stpry ever posted to Slashdot...
I have struggled with this same issue with having lots of (physical and digital) documents & photographs, and I want a way to store and track it. I have multiple "buckets" of info to store, from genealogy to projects to general tech dump areas.
I use ScanSoft's (www.scansoft.com) PaperPort ($100), which is about as cheap as you can get for document management on a decent level... it has basic OCR software built-in, although they sell OmniPage for about $150 (I think), for better OCR capabilities.
There are other companies that sell big iron solutions, like www.isysusa.com and www.onbase.com, but they are not cheap.
To be useful as a research resource, what you should expect to get out of a decent document management system is the ability to query by keywords which are statically tagged to the files, index ability of filename and contents (OCR'ed text contents a big plus), and the ability to categorize everything.
It really depends on what level of querying you want, how fast and well you want it OCR'ed, and how much you want to pay.
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Insider info will tell you that Lenova has already been seriously discussing how best to bring down their cost on laptop builds by outsourcing it to somewhere else like India or Pakistan, instead of China... this has been brought up in several IBM internal meetings. Maybe Lenova read a study that the underpaid Middle Eastern kids have smaller fingers then the under-paid Chinese kids, so they can work better with the ever-shrinking laptop circuitry... :)
Is the news so slow today that Slashdot thinks it OK to post articles better left on techincal-how-to websites? Give me a break...
I remember back about 5 years or so ago when Microsoft pulled all Samba tech support documents from their Support knowledgebase... luckily, I had printouts already. We all assumed the removal was due to increasing utilization of Samba, to the detriment of MS's PDCs, etc.
The product wouldn't fly at orgs requiring compliance to ADA regulations.
Yeah, can you believe the gall of some people who would embed their webpage links in their sigs? Wow, the nerve of those people...
There's a better way to prevent brute force attacks, use something like SafeGuard Easy, a full disk encryption product (I use their product and do NOT work with the company, as an FYI), which has PBA (Pre-Boot Authentication) which can require either a smart card, a token, or a username/password immediately before the OS boots... throw AES-256 at it, and it'll be a long time (a very long time) before most could get at the data... of course, if the govt waits for you to boot up then hack at you from across the network, well, you'd better have some firewall & spyware & packet tracer software, and a good bit of time to watch the data streams ... but, as long as you don't power up, you are safe! Haha!
A company named Kanguru makes FIPS-140 compliant USB drives... they work great and can be AES-256 bit encrypted, as well. Their website is kanguru.com
For starters, I suggest that you look at products like Utimaco's SafeGuard Easy (AES 256-bit full disk encryption), SecureWave's Sanctuary (for device and port securing), and Kanguru's AES 256-bit encrypted thumb drives (gaining FIPS approval currently)...
Vendors like HP and IBM have vendor-specific technologies to protect instances of hard drives being stolen as well, but you need to use a third-party FDE (full disk encryption) to complement those products (plus the others I listed above)... those should get you started in th right direction.
Good Luck!
Slashdot moderators posted this story for what reason? Are they all 8 years old with a 6 year old sense of humor... this is the most moronic stpry ever posted to Slashdot...
I have struggled with this same issue with having lots of (physical and digital) documents & photographs, and I want a way to store and track it. I have multiple "buckets" of info to store, from genealogy to projects to general tech dump areas.
I use ScanSoft's (www.scansoft.com) PaperPort ($100), which is about as cheap as you can get for document management on a decent level... it has basic OCR software built-in, although they sell OmniPage for about $150 (I think), for better OCR capabilities.
There are other companies that sell big iron solutions, like www.isysusa.com and www.onbase.com, but they are not cheap.
To be useful as a research resource, what you should expect to get out of a decent document management system is the ability to query by keywords which are statically tagged to the files, index ability of filename and contents (OCR'ed text contents a big plus), and the ability to categorize everything.
It really depends on what level of querying you want, how fast and well you want it OCR'ed, and how much you want to pay.
Good luck!
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