Usually?!? How many phones do you go through, man?

They already knew this. The're just doing the Google thing of tossing a product out there early before throwing the doors wide open and implementing every idea or option all at once. Might as well get the product out there early, then start slowly adding in the features and opening up the access. You can do that with a "cloud" product if you want to. Kind of tough to do that with traditional off the shelf software.

I'd be shocked if they hadn't planned this from the start, and just decided to try and get it right first. Heck, they're Google. I bet they know more metrics about browsing habits and demographics than just about anyone.

Nah... pretty much everything they make is crap. That's why they buy companies like Sybari.

...when I hated phones that did anything other than make phone calls. I had a cellular phone so I could call people. I didn't want calendars that were awkward to use, I didn't want stupid games, I didn't want colour screens, and I sure has heck didn't want a camera that could only produce grainy photos the size of icons . A simple hand-held phone with 12 push buttons for punching in phone numbers, a decent battery, and a back-lit LCD from a pocket calculator - that was good enough for me. All I wanted was clear, simple, voice communications.

In short, when the day that I dreaded finally came, and my boss tossed me a cheap Blackberry, I was thoroughly disgusted. It seemed to do everything relatively poorly except make a half decent phone call - that it couldn't do to save it's own diodes, and the phone rarely kept up with me whilst dialing numbers. The question "will it blend" became less about testing the robustness of a blender, and more about the sadistic glee I would receive while watching it disintegrate violently, forever freeing me from its torturous choke-hold on my daily life.

But that was then, and these days, smart phones are now a vital part of what I do. They are better. They're faster. The networks are faster. The newer phones don't have to take a half an hour to boot. They integrate with the work I do. I need a lot of access to various types of communications and data on the road, and in emergencies, I need ways of dealing with certain issues remotely. Today's decent smartphones are fast enough and versatile enough to allow me to access information and perform vital tasks when I'm visiting a client or travelling. If I'm in a pinch, I can tether my netbook and get things done that way too. I think smart phones are finally coming into their own.

Scandisk is a fantastic way to destroy even more data... scandisk tries to correct file system problems. It does not try to recover damaged bits on a disk surface. Software like Scandisk, Chkdsk, and fsck should be avoided. Instead, try software like SpinRite using a very good floppy drive.

This has been around for a while. It's part of vPro, and it already has the ability to boot a machine with a disabled HDD using an ISO remotely. I'm kind of shocked because this isn't exactly news... I've been showing our clients how to use VNC Viewer Plus to remotely manage hardware for some time now.

Like Intel's Centrino product, vPro is a suite of technologies designed to aid with management in environments where machines are deployed. The VNC component allows for out-of-band remote KVM - this means you can work on a system even if there is no OS, or if the OS isn't working correctly. vPro also provides hardware aid for full disk encryption, (more secure than software-only solutions), as well as asset tracking through software such as Computrace Lowjack, (includes other features like remotely bricking a system, etc.).

vPro presently only works on i5/i7 systems with a vPro enabled chipset. It is one of those major features which Intel has been unable to market successfully, as proven by the general lack of knowledge here at Slashdot.

Sounds like a great low-cost solution....

Because people don't understand digital signatures. They do understand a FAX machine. I find it amazing how many purchase orders our company still receives by FAX. But I see and hear it all the time - when an on-line system fails, (or more likely, when someone fails to understand an on-line system), they revert back to the easiest way to get the job done.

And who started spouting about FAX being more secure than email? Forget security - that's something we came up with, not something the users are ever thinking about... If an IT person was thinking about security, they'd still send stuff by email... encrypted. Why would anyone even think a FAX is a secure way to send when you can't control how the document arrives or who sees it when it gets there? We're talking about your average office staff here. FAX machines offer comfort, and a perception of simplicity and reliability.

When people don't trust technology, and when people don't understand technology, then people don't use technology. It's as simple as that.

Really well priced on business and enterprise stuff - all of it quite capable and where they do compete with Cisco, I'd say far more competitive. But more than just their hardware, Netgear support is awesome. They bend over backwards on both the sales and service side of things. Perhaps it is just my reps, but they are quick on the draw, and actually look forward to helping me build business with them. For many others, this always seems like an arduous chore. It is also very clear who I need to call depending on the request... even some of the best companies I deal with don't have that. Instead, I get lost in the typical maze of employees, departments, phone numbers, and web sites.

Heck, I could spout a lot of jargon and babble, throw it on a Joomla site, grab a copy of Artisteer, and make the whole thing a lot more convincing than what he threw together. If this is a con, it's a horrible one. Even his LinkedIn profile looks like it was thrown together with crayons and Scotch tape. The way one presents one's self should involve at least an attempt at professionalism. Even I wear a suit and tie at an interview. I know nothing of radioactive isotopes or lasers powered turbines, but anyone seriously considering investing in this is insane.