Enterprise
« Previous EntriesThe irony of the financial crisis
Friday, September 19th, 2008Dennis Howlett has an excellent post pointing to some of the causes of the current financial instability, including the part that greed and irresponsibility played.
without a morally bound ethical compass, we all go to hell in a hand basket. Courtesy of inept and emasculated government, aided and abetted by an incompetent audit profession bending over [...]
10 Reasons Enterprises Aren’t Ready to Trust the Cloud
Thursday, July 31st, 2008from gigaom…. To summarise,
It’s not secure. Certain companies and industries have to maintain strict watch on their data at all times, either because they’re legally obligated to or because they’re super paranoid.
It can’t be logged, required for compliance purposes.
It’s not platform agnostic. If you need to support multiple platforms, as most enterprises do, then you’re [...]
Remove Hidden Data tool for Office 2003 and Office XP
Monday, July 14th, 2008MS Word documents contain hidden meta data that contain information about
the author of the document. It can also contain additional information
like comments and remarks, previous authors or revisions. While that is
normally not a problem for the author because most recipients do not
care or know that those information are available it can become a
problem in some [...]
Test Internet Explorer with Virtual PC Images
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008One way to check if your websites are compatible with Internet Explorer is to use a virtual pc edition. These require Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 which can be downloaded from the Microsoft homepage. Microsoft is offering virtual pc images of Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 on Windows XP and Windows Vista. All you need [...]
Google data center locations
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Pingdom (a paid service that, amongst other things, can alert you when your site is down) put together a map of Google data centers based on approximate information from the unofficial Google Data Center FAQ. From Pingdom :
If you include data centers that are under construction, Google has 19 locations in the US where they [...]
iPhone iPod Touch Lotus Notes and sametime
Friday, January 18th, 2008via simon scullion - a snap shot of iphone and Lotus coverage:
iPhone putting on a Lotus Notes suit? By Thomas Ricker
If you’re looking to gain respect for your gear as a serious business-class tool, there’s no better way than to infiltrate those Big Four accounting firms still using Lotus Notes. According to a piece [...]
Password Recovery using Geforce 8 Video Cards
Saturday, January 5th, 2008The software Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery was designed for distributed recovery of lost passwords by providing hardware acceleration for NTLM password recovery using GeForce 8 video cards which speeds up the process by a factor of up to 25).
The product comes at a price though which is only affordable to companies. I still thought [...]
Google Analytics Tracker Code Change
Friday, January 4th, 2008from Google Blogscoped
There is no specific immediate need to do this, but if you are using Google Analytics for your traffic tracking, Google asks you to update the tracker script.
The old code will still work though for at least another year, according to Google. Google says they “recommend you use for all new accounts and [...]
The world ends on January 19, 2038: thanks Unix!
Friday, January 4th, 2008If you thought the Y2K bug had a lot of world ending potential, you might want to skip this post right now. If we don’t blow ourselves up by 2038, the end of the world is going to have little to do with nukes and a lot to do with Unix because Unix systems can’t [...]
Twitter in the Enterprise
Thursday, December 27th, 2007from Confused of Calcutta:
When you see someone standing at a pod, you need to come face-to-face with that someone in order to start a conversation. When you see someone at a bar counter, you only need to come side-by-side. It’s the same at an art gallery, when you stand next to someone and break into [...]