Editorial: Beyond NAC: the internal controls While some of the biggest guns are focusing on network access control, a few small companies are asking how to regulate where users go once they’re inside.
Editorial: Beyond NAC: the internal controls, 07/31/06
While some of the biggest guns are focusing on network access control, a few small companies are asking how to regulate where users go once they’re inside.
Bradner: The Universal Service Fund: now more universal taxation, 07/31/06
In theory at least, some of what the Universal Service Fund is being used for is good to do and has a connection to the funding source. But like many things, theory and practice can be rather far apart.
Johnson: Privacy issues that cannot be ignored, 07/31/06
You don’t have to be a wild-eyed civil libertarian to be legitimately concerned about privacy issues. Particularly if you’re running a corporate network, it’s a really good idea to think about privacy.
Thompson: Hidden risks of software-as-a-service, 07/31/06
Terms seem to change meaning so often in IT.
Anderson: OLPC and unintended consequences, 07/31/06
Eight years ago, Larry Ellison tweaked Bill Gates’ nose by suggesting the world needed a $100 computer – with a non-Microsoft operating system, running non-Windows applications. It was great press and great fun, but Ellison was about as ready to build this low-cost computer as he was to forsake Oracle, take vows of poverty and chastity, and join a monastery.
Backspin: SOA or a kit car? Am I nuts?, 07/31/06
If I insisted that you should dump your current automobile and buy a build-it-yourself kit car, what would you say? I suspect you’d say that, given the fact you hardly have enough time to sleep these days, you are unlikely to find the time to build a car. You’d probably follow that up with “and you must be nuts.”
‘Net Buzz: Rule No. 1 for antispam PR: Don’t spam, 07/31/06
This isn’t exactly brain surgery, yet the fellow at a public relations agency called Rocket Science managed to violate Rule No. 1 last week while attempting to drum up publicity for Singlefin, which provides e-mail, instant messaging and Web filtering services to the likes of Juno and NetZero.
Cool Tools: New from Averatec, Acer, Skype, 07/31/06
It figures – I go on vacation, and a bunch of cool products are announced. Here are the latest …
Nutter’s Help Desk: Getting Tivo to work with WPA, 07/31/06
I am doing a friend a favor, setting up her Tivo box, Dell wireless laptop and Netgear WGT624 Firewall Router. All of these are up to date via wire connection, then moved on to wireless connection. The Tivo folks won’t support WPA and I have been forced to downgrade to WEP. I know I want 128 bit encryption (it’s better than wide open in an apartment complex) but I hit a snag.
Dr. Internet: How to fix corrupt Windows XP systems, 07/31/06
My Windows XP system won’t boot. I get a message that says the file system32configsystem is corrupt or missing. Can I fix this?
Gearhead: Trying Microsoft MapPoint with GPS, 07/31/06
Little did we know, but it seems that our office wobbles. At least according to the latest version of Microsoft MapPoint 2006 with GPS Locator.
