Sunday, November 12, 2006

Weekend Reading

Laptop Losses Loom

The risk is growing, so it's best to plan for the worst. It's a familiar and sad story: A business traveler, on her way to an important meeting, entered a busy airport. Her laptop was taken, along with sensitive company information and all the data needed for that vital meeting.

But I'm not talking about a traveler whose laptop was stolen while she was stuck in a busy security line or getting a cup of coffee. I'm talking about a business traveler whose laptop was taken from her legally and who didn't get it back for almost a year. Indeed, it wasn't a thief who took this woman's laptop but a U.S. customs official.


Read the article HERE.

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Disk encryption products for your laptop


You may not always be able to protect your laptop from a thief, but you can keep the data it contains safe. Two new products -- PGP Corp.'s PGP Whole Disk Encryption 9.5 and SecurStar GmbH's DriveCrypt Plus Pack 3.5 -- promise to protect your data, so that even if your computer falls into the wrong hands, its contents will remain unreadable. Both applications are easy to use and offer an impressive suite of tools, but most users will appreciate the more practical features and lower price tag of PGP's product.

Read the article HERE.

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Prevent the Automatic IE 7 Update

Internet Explorer 7 offers a whole series of improvements over its predecessors – especially with regard to security. However, such changes always give rise to compatibility issues. What happens when, for example, essential intranet applications fail to cope with new quirks?

Read the entire article HERE.

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Will you upgrade to Vista?

I like Vista over XP. Not because Vista is the newest but because it has the features that XP does not have. If you will visit Microsoft website on Vista, you will learn more about the new features and Windows enhancements. I suggest you to read each page and browse on the provided links. When you are done reading and if you are convinced that you will get Vista, I recommend any of the following:

Read the article HERE.

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Mastering The Worlds Of Information Technology

There are three categories of IT, each of which provides different organizational capabilities—and demands very different kinds of management interventions.

Read the article HERE.

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Virtual PC is free


I’ve had a number of inquiries recently about virtual machine software. It seems that a lot of folks either want to run Vista in a VM instead of installing it outright on their computers, or they have upgraded to Vista and want to run XP in a VM so they'll have access to some old applications that don't work with Vista. You'll be happy to know that Microsoft's Virtual PC (VPC) VM application is now a free download. You can install VPC 2004 on XP and run Vista in the VM, or you can install VPC 2007 (beta) on Vista and then install XP in the VM.

Find out more HERE.
There are also various free options at
Vmware.

Source :
Sunbelt weekly TechTips

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Safety and Security Online magazine


Computer security can seem very complex. At Microsoft, we are committed to making it easier for anyone to understand. Here you can download new safety and security publications that are dedicated to helping you protect your computer, yourself, and your family.

In each issue we gather the most important security information, tailored to the interests and concerns of parents, teens, kids, and seniors. Come here to find step-by-step guidance to help you with the threats you might hear about in the news.

Take a look HERE.

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A five year deal with Microsoft to dump Novell/SUSE

Novell is jeopardizing the future of Linux for its own short-term rewards. If you want to see Linux flourish, let alone survive after Novell's five year deal with Microsoft expires, I suggest we make an alternative five year deal with Microsoft. In this case, our part of the deal is to spend the next five minutes, months, or years migrating away from every shred of Novell/SUSE software in our home, office, or enterprise. The controversial agreement between Microsoft and Novell stinks to high heaven. Look, for example, at the contradictory statements.

Read the entire article HERE.

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