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Five shocking ways your computer is at risk

May 6, 2009

Even if you have read our previous posts on data security and encryption, your computer data is probably still at risk. Scientific American recently reported on a variety of “side-channel” data vulnerabilities–threats of data theft through passive or mechanical means that bypass your software and operating system altogether.
Below are five frightening new ways to steal [...]

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Deal: Epson photo/CD-ROM printer only $55

April 18, 2009

Earlier this week we mentioned a great deal on Adobe’s Photoshop Elements photo editing software, which is 40% off for the next week.
On Friday, Peter Berge at Small Firm Success found a bargain on the Epson R280 color photo and CD/DVD printer, currently priced as low as $55.00.

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The path to computing happiness

September 11, 2008

From Alex Payne’s “rules for computing happiness,” here are two that every lawyer should consider when selecting office software:

Use software that does one thing well.
Do not use software that does many things poorly.

There are plenty more, and while you may disagree, they provide good food for thought.
I agree with most, although I think a Linux [...]

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Lenovo’s new ThinkPads coming soon!

July 23, 2008

I am a huge ThinkPad fan. The MacBook Pro may be sexier, but if you shot a ThinkPad and a MacBook Pro out of cannons at each other, the ThinkPad would destroy the MacBook Pro and still boot up the pre-installed SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (or Vista, I guess, if you swing that way) in [...]

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Microsoft wants to control your hardware

June 13, 2008

At least, that seems to be the implication of its new “digital manners policy” patent, which would force your gadgets to receive “orders” from a digital Miss Manners overlord. For example, a movie theater could automatically switch all phone in the audience to vibrate when the movie starts.
Maybe that would be nice, but when I [...]

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FIRE DRILL! How secure are your files?

May 21, 2008

Imagine any of the following scenarios:

You returned to your office this morning to find it had burned to the ground overnight. You cannot salvage anything but a few crispy bits of your pencil sharpener.
Someone swiped your laptop on the train this morning while you were on your way to work. Nobody seems to have seen [...]

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IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads: then and now (then was better than now)

May 16, 2008

A story of my love for my old laptop, an IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T43, and my disappointment with the “updated” version, the Lenovo T61
I bought my ThinkPad T43 in August 2005. I love this computer. It is thin, light, powerful, and tough as nails. It may not be as pretty as an iBook or MacBook, but [...]

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Another one bites the dust

April 29, 2008

My beloved ThinkPad died of USB-controller-induced vomiting last Thursday. One minute it was suspended, the next I tried to plug in a USB mouse and it went out like a light. It was four years old, though, so it has had a good life: coffee shops, courtrooms, the front porch . . .
The problem seems [...]

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Al Gore’s amazing computer setup

December 23, 2007

Holy cow, are those three 30″ Apple Cinema displays?

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Hardware -> software -> standards (platform irrelevance)

October 4, 2007

In the beginning, there was hardware. With early computers, operating systems were not really conceived separately from the hardware. Software was hard-coded into computing systems. Soon after, however, hardware became the means to run an operating system. All hardware was made to run with an operating system–usually Windows, after Microsoft became dominant. And the operating [...]

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