* Gearhead: Connecting audio * Backspin: IT automation: right and wrong * Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Gearhead: Connecting audio
Before we launch into this week’s main topic, we need to revisit an issue we covered a few weeks ago. In a recent column we discussed a way to get an OS X system to talk to a Windows 2003 Server acting as a domain controller by disabling the default security policy that is set to always encrypt network connections, which OS X doesn’t support. The fact the OS X’s SMB services don’t support encryption is ridiculous, and it is remarkable that Apple hasn’t addressed it yet.
To read this week’s Gearhead, click here.
Backspin: IT automation: right and wrong
IT automation is a hot topic. Actually, it has been a hot topic for a long time. Gibbs Irregular Dan Saint-Andre points out that today’s “IT automation is little different from the batch jobs and job control of years past. Sadly, few of [today’s] scripting tools offer features that are on par with VAX/VMS DCL on a VAX-Cluster.”
To read this week’s Backspin, click here.
Gibbsblog: The past 7 days
Ever Weirdly Evolving Spam
Spam continues to evolve and some of the directions are, to say the least, bizarre. I recently started get spam from France and it is very French — they are shilling wine!
Time Sink #19: A Series of Tubes
From YouTube: DJ Ted Stevens Techno Remix: “A Series of Tubes”
Patents and Pooh: The 2007 Ig Nobel UK Tour
Did you know that in 2001 the Australian Patent Office awarded John Keogh a patent for the wheel? Or that there is a scientific paper titled “Pressures produced when penguins pooh”.
Introducing Le Book
Video of technical support in action. Priceless!
