Comment Why is this news? (Score 1) 167
Oh look, Cryptowall/Cryptolocker hits a school/business/home/whatever.
Shoulda had AV installed. Shoulda had backups.
Comment No, but schools will take a second look (Score 2) 232
We test piloted Chromebooks vs Windows laptops last year, and the decision was made to go with Chromebooks by the district's tech committee over the summer. 700 Chromebooks were purchased and rolled out to a complete grade level plus classes in other grade levels.
The decision to go with Chromebooks was purely political. There was a staff member on the committee (who is no longer with the district) that hyped Google Apps, but when September came, everyone found out you could not run Office on them, and many of the Google "Apps" listed in their directory for Chrome were either just shortcuts or weren't free, so there has been some resentment towards the Chromebooks and Chrome.
Yes, Chromebooks are lower maintenance. However, it would have been only a slight edge with Windows 8's recovery features. Windows 8 can run in 2GB pretty well for what kids would need it for.
Comment None (Score 2) 471
I stopped buying watches when my phone was small enough to carry in a pocket at all times. Motorola StarTac I believe was the clincher.
Comment Re:Use a FreeBSD box as your firewall (Score 2, Interesting) 109
This. We build these for clients and run pfSense on them. Low power, no heat, supports a backup WAN connection with it's three ethernet interfaces. And you can add two more with USB Ethernet adapters.
Comment I quit buying Android games (Score 1) 433
No Android phone I've owned has the battery to support gaming. I've bought a few titles, but they collect dust now. I have an iPad, and that's where I do any sort of mobile gaming, because the battery doesn't melt under the load as fast.
Comment A little better punctuation would go a long way. (Score 1) 390
The quoted text from Carreon is too long and you get the feeling someone fell asleep writing it. I re-read it a second time, imagining better formatting and it read better, IMO.
Comment Can we get.. (Score 5, Funny) 198
...Turbo switches on our workstations again like back in the day?
Comment Re:Comcast Here Is My List of Ideas to be better. (Score 1) 286
The impending digital conversion going through the Chicagoland area will fix alot of issues. They still have too much analog clogging up the wire.
Rumor is the Wolves may go to WPWR full-time next season!
Comment Customer for ten years... (Score 1) 286
...and still count the problems I've had with them on one hand, including the massive @Home outage.
Meanwhile, I love the 20Mbps connection that's more reliable that most of my client's DSL and T1 lines. And two years ago they rolled a truck to fix a problem caused by a repair crew working on a different issue about 45 minutes after my phone call.
Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting? 329
ICA writes "It appears after years of criticism, Diebold may be ready to withdraw from electronic voting entirely. The company is concerned that this relatively small and marginally profitable unit is hurting the company's overall image."
Journal Journal: RIAA kills internet radio
I am A internet radio DJ for DNDRadio.com (ddo.mmoradio.com) and i want to bring to your attention that the RIAA is at it again. this time, they are killing internet radio!
"direct qoute from our website"
The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet Radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters (an MMORadio) and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange (a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA).
MS Fights Gmail With 2-GB Exchange Mailboxes 353
prawnonthebarbie writes "Microsoft is battling the trend for frazzled office workers to give up on Outlook and auto-forward all their mail to Gmail: the company is promising 2-GB mailboxes in Exchange 2007 rather than the piffling 50-MB mailboxes most workplaces have now. Speaking at the launch of Vista, Office, and Exchange in Singapore, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Martha DeAmicis said Microsoft had built clustered replication into Exchange so corporate IT admins wouldn't be worrying about backing up big mailboxes to tape. However, its killer feature appears to be its plans to make those gigs of email available on Joe Officeworker's mobile phone."
IE7 Blocking Google Image Search? 253
An anonymous reader writes, "I just tried a Google Image Search in IE7 for the first time. Whenever I click on an image, my browser tells me in big bold letters, "This is a reported phishing website." Try it yourself: make sure automatic phishing detection is turned on and do an (adorable) image search; click on one of the result thumbnails. MSN Live Image Search has no such issues. Insert Microsoft evil conspiracy theory here." I get this behavior under IE7, Win XP Pro, SP2, Parallels, Mac OS X.
Venezuelan Interest In U.S. Voting Software 337
A number of readers wrote in about a U.S. federal investigation into the Venezulean ownership of Sequoia Voting Systems, which makes voting machines used in 17 states and the District of Columbia. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States wonders whether the anti-U.S. government of Hugo Chávez could be trying to influence the U.S. midterm elections. From the article: "Government officials familiar with the Smartmatic inquiry said they doubted that even if the Chávez government was some kind of secret partner in the company, it would try to influence elections in the United States. But some of them speculated that the purchase of Sequoia could help Smartmatic sell its products in Latin America and other developing countries, where safeguards against fraud are weaker."
Comment Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation's Solar System (Score 1) 235
Now *that's* a beam of light!
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