To anticipate and prevent
At the office we use Symantec anti-virus. Recently we upgraded to Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 which includes Anti-Virus, Anti-Spyware, Proactive Threat Protection and lastly… Network Threat Protection. The reason why I single out that last component is because it contains MASSIVE amounts of failure — or lack of QA work. This last week I finally…
One of the first things I did after getting Ubuntu running was to see if I could get and install World Of Warcraft using Cedega. Yes, I could have used Wine (Which I do have installed) but it only has a bronze rating and frankly I wanted to see if it would run WELL under…
For those playing along at home — yes, I had just installed Windows 2008 on my machine less than a month ago. I got bored and frustrated on Friday with my machine. Mainly frustrated with a CPU stealing glitch. So I decided to install Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on my Dell Latitude D620. I have…
A long time ago in a galax…. Ok, just a long time ago I ran across the idea of a “Carputer” or “CarPC” (or what ever the hell you want to call them). Basically you build a small computer into your car, wire it to run off your battery and put an LCD where your…
As the headline says, I went in for a root canal. Well, I should say more correctly I went in for a double root canal. Two teeth right next to each other needed the “big dig” (sorry Boston). As a matter of amusement I thought I’d share my experience with the internet at large. I…
This is something I’ve been meaning to complain about for a while now, but I don’t like the new gmail. If you use gmail, you probably saw the notice a bit ago that they were changing over to some new version. It was “new” and “improved” and to us looked just the same and did…