http://www.zdnet.com/blog/askbloggie/rss en-us This is important because a difference in either, or both, comprehension and retention, would mean that a wide range of significant endeavours, from stock market and related financial decision making to public education, have been more affected by the transition from paper to screen than we previously understood.

]]> I’ve just moved from Ontario back to my home province of Alberta - where the Sun shines, the air is clean, and the economy is booming.
During the move we ran a series of eight chapter summaries, or notes to myself, for a possible book on how and why to use Sun’s Sun Ray thin [...]

]]> The answer to a skills deficit is education and practice, the answer to prejudice is community.

]]> here are many different ways to provide access to Windows applications on Sun Ray smart displays.
This Sun page
offers “white papers” and real how-to information on a wide range of choices.

]]> “SSID suppression”, “DHCP restrictions”, and “MAC filtering” are a huge waste of time. If you absolutely can’t run good WPA security, just turn on WEP for some real deterrence. Having said that, it’s ironic that WPA-PSK security when used correctly has no known method of being cracked yet it’s even easier to deploy than WEP which is breakable in a couple of minutes. WEP on the other hand is much easier to deploy than MAC filtering which is breakable in a matter of seconds using freely available GUI tools that run on Linux.

]]> Want some free Linux?

]]> Windows winds down hardware. As time goes by, patches and updates and upgrades and necessary applications load my box up with code that hogs my memory, and takes up CPU cycles, until the memory and cycles needed for new work magically disappear. Then you’re supposed to replace the box, and over time buy new software.

]]> it’s possible to see this report as wrong on all counts, and not only credit the
authors with a legitimate attempt to come to grips with a real problem but feel sorry for them
because what they ended up, in all innocence, writing a case study on how not to deploy Linux.

]]> Companies are not helpless against Sony’s rootkit; they can preemptively stop it in the first place with Active Directory Group Policy.

]]> To make 802.11 happen under Linux with Linksys, you need an access card that works with Linux.

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