Public Act 097-0287 went into effect January 1st, 2012 for the state of Illinois. It updated the Illinois Products Recycling and Reuse Act to cover seventeen electronic products that must be recycled. It also introduced a number of mandates, fees, and deadlines for manufacturers that sell electronics in Illinois (such as recycling 40% of previous years' sales, by weight). … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
Important client versus datacenter manager
Money spent on conferences is money well spent, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfLXAtRJfY Yuck! Have you ever been in that situation? … [Read more...]
National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition gets underway today
You have just been hired as the network and security administrators at a small company and will be taking administrative control of all information systems. You know very little about the network, what security level has been maintained, or what software has been installed. You have a limited time frame to familiarize yourself with the network and systems and to begin the … [Read more...]
Fixing common problems encountered in Microsoft Flight
While playing the recently released, free-to-play Microsoft Flight, I encountered a few problems that seem to be easy-to-fix but pretty common for players of Microsoft Flight. Here is how you can fix the problems that will otherwise leave you grounded. … [Read more...]
Microsoft talks Windows 8 Enterprise and Enhanced Software Assurance
Microsoft introduced and clarified what Windows 8 Enterprise brings to the table for those business customers with Software Assurance agreements. As discussed earlier this week in the discussion of the four SKUs of Windows 8, Windows 8 Enterprise includes all the features of Windows 8 Pro while adding some features "IT organization that enable PC management and deployment, … [Read more...]