After bugging a friend of mine inside "the Industry" for the past couple of weeks, he has finally given in and sent me a copy of the Lost series finale. It's a long video at 2 and a half hours but it was great to see things wrapped up from the last six years. Lost changed TV forever and while it's sad to see it go, it's so relieving to finally have resolution. The last episode … [Read more...]
Manufactoria – Making Turing Machines Fun Again!
Ah, who am I kidding? Turing Machines have always been fun. Manufactoria is a Flash-based puzzle game for those of us that like a good brain-scratcher. In reality, we're making a finite state machine which simulates computer logic. We look at a sequence of inputs and react based on the state we're seeing. In the game, we're building test machines to run through some robots' … [Read more...]
Photocopiers, an Identity Theft Gold Mine
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...]
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...]