Lank - Slashdot User

Lost/Stolen Laptop Tracking Service 0

Submitted by Lank on Saturday July 26 2008, @11:15PM

Lank writes "Ever lost your laptop at the airport? How about using the restroom at your favorite coffee shop only to come back and find your laptop missing? Unfortunately stories such as these are becoming more and more common in a time when people are becoming increasingly dependent on portable computing. I've often thought about implementing a "beacon" that my MacBook Pro would periodically send back to one of my servers with its current IP, but never got around to it. Good thing someone did. Adeona is such a service. Not only that, it also fully encrypts all data sent back to their servers so that only the owner can read the data (it's even open source so you can be sure). It's available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The Mac version even allows you to photograph the thief as some people have done."

Apple releases 802.11n updater

Submitted by Lank on Wednesday January 31 2007, @04:44PM

Lank writes "Apple quietly released the highly-debated 802.11n Enabler. It can be purchased at the Apple store for $1.99 (plus tax)."

Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware?

Submitted by Lank on Tuesday January 23 2007, @12:08AM

Lank writes "According to an article on CNN Money, Parallels and VMware can not only run Windows on Macs, but also allow OS X on non-Apple computers! Serguei Beloussov, the CEO of SWsoft, parent company to Parallels, insists that this ability is not deliberate but rather a byproduct Intel's built-in virtualization technology. "I wonder what Steve Jobs is going to do, because there is so much pressure to run Mac OS on non-Macs. There's no technical reason not to do it. He's so proprietary about everything, yet it could be a very strategic move for him to make," CEO of VMware Diane Greene said. But I feel the decision still belongs to Jobs."