About a month ago, there was an interesting story on the CBS evening news that revealed a little known fact: most photocopiers have a hard drive in them and they contain a copy of every document ever scanned on the photocopier. We've covered using DBaN before to wipe the hard drive of your computers before you get rid of them but did you even know that your photocopier had a … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2010
Follow-up: McAfee’s Response to DAT 5958
I had the privilege yesterday of attending a session with an engineer from McAfee. Before giving a presentation on McAfee's Host Intrusion Prevention System and Whole Disk Encryption products, we were able to have an hour-long Q&A session about the bad DAT (antivirus definitions) file that wreaked worm-like havoc for thousands of computers in my organization and many, many … [Read more...]
Product Review: HP MultiSeat and Windows MultiPoint Server 2010
At work, we're looking to replace a lab with new computers. These days, that leaves us plenty of options. Normal PC or thin client? Each of those choices has a lot of variants as well. One of the thin client options we're looking into is the HP MultiSeat T100 Thin Client solution. HP's MultiSeat is a pretty interesting setup and falls somewhere between the traditional desktop … [Read more...]
Splashup – Another In-Browser Image Editor
That silly, crazy-capable web has done it again. Here's Splashup, a Flash-powered, in-browser image editor. (Enough hyphens for you?) It has some great features that allow it to easily surpass the desktop application MS Paint you have installed on your computer. I've previously talked about SUMO Paint, a similar in-browser image editor, and Splashup is comparable to that. … [Read more...]
How to Hold a Confidential Print Job at a Shared Printer
One of the low hanging fruits of Green IT recommendations is to replace the 'printer at each desk' model with the 'fewer, higher-capacity printers shared amongst an office' model. In my office, we've been trying to follow this recommendation in order to save electricity, reduce maintenance, and provide printers with increased capabilities to my users. Unfortunately, it's not … [Read more...]