Nearly two years ago, my house caught on fire and everything but the outside walls had to be gutted and rebuilt. But from every disaster emerges silver linings - and indeed, we discovered many.
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Apple Store announces Reserve And Pick Up program
11/07/09
For you pre-Thanksgiving shoppers, the Apple retail store on Friday announced a way to get a jump on your holiday list. The Reserve And Pick Up option will let you choose hardware products online and swing by your local store to collect them between December 15 and 24. Currently, the line-up of offerings includes iPods, iPhones, MacBooks, Mac Minis, iMacs, and Mac Pros. To make a reservation, you sign in with your Apple ID and select a store location. Payment is due only at the time of pick-up.
Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world
11/07/09
isoHunt's Gary Fung talks about how isoHunt has evaded legal trouble so far, why he holds out hope of working together with Hollywood and the music industry, and how he's launched a new P2P site for just that purpose.
Update fixes iPhone sync problem with Windows 7 for some
11/07/09
Gigabyte Technology issued a BIOS update on Friday that fixes a problem for some Windows 7 users who have been unable to sync their iPhones.
One of those was the ability to minimize and consolidate - fewer toys, clothes, electronics, and indeed, IT infrastructure. With four school-age children and two work-at-home parents, computers, printers, and scanners were all-too-plentiful in our home.
So we installed Category 3 and Category 5 cabling throughout the house and put in a small “server room” that houses and protects all the electronics and IT infrastructure. We reduced the number of printers, termination devices, and Internet access lines. And we now spend very little time troubleshooting IT problems.
Why? There simply are fewer devices and connections that can have problems now.
That’s one of the huge benefits of consolidated networking gear for branch offices. With the explosion of branch offices (91% of all employees, on average, work in a branch location, whether large or small), the functions inherent in a variety of products are necessary at each site.
Products, including multifunction routers, services gateways and unified threat management (UTM) devices, provide many of the tasks without wrapping a box around each one. Rather than having separate boxes for switching (voice and data), routing, intrusion-detection, and network optimization, these products provide some or all of these functions (and even more) in a single device.
Why does that matter? The median number of devices at a branch office is six. That means IT staffs are installing, managing, and troubleshooting six devices (and the links to them) at dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of branch-office locations. Reducing the number of devices offers several benefits, including reduced space requirements, small number of physical devices to manage/install, and fewer product lines to learn and program.
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