FROM THE IGLOO

Well, we have updated Faronics Core 3.2 to address the update issue that some of our customers where seeing. The new build is up on our site and should be avaliable for download  in the appropriate places. If during the update you still have some issues please contact the support team at 800-943-6422 x 1 [...]

The article below is an interesting read about how many people are still running XP SP2 as opposed to upgrading to SP3. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9177474/Windows_XP_SP2_retirement_looms_puts_users_in_tough_spot I know that a lot of people take the “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” attitude to a lot of things in IT, but when it comes to the security of the systems that [...]

I’m thinking that there are some people over at McAfee that are realizing now that it’s not a good idea to skimp on testing your releases before putting them out the door. If you have been hiding under a rock for the last few days you probably have not seen this little piece of news. [...]

Well it looks like the folks at Intel are looking into getting systems to be a bit more energy friendly. The Register has a article here that details some steps that they are looking at that could have a fairly good impact on the power consumption of today’s computers. I know for a fact that [...]

For those of you who have not heard we have a new release of Core Console available and have finally updated all the associated products to work properly in this new Core Console. WINSelect was the last holdout and was officially signed off on last Friday by our QA teams and should now be available [...]

I saw this link today, and thought that some of the people that read this might find it amusing: I’ve done this with magnetic media and never had some survive, even looking at this I’d be taking a backup before playing ball with my disk.

I originally posted this on my personal blog, but it’s a interesting note so I figured what harm is a little cross posting. Had a small problem today. I do a lot of photography and back in 2004 I finally put down the cash for a DSLR and proceeded to shoot whacks of photos. And [...]

After building and playing with Chrome OS for the last little while and looking through a lot of the reviews that have been posted there’s little left to say. But the one thing that that they are doing that I really like is that they are segmenting out the users information from the operating system. [...]