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filed in Hardware, Review, Software, Tech on Jan.30, 2010
My original post included a quick and dirty test on raw hard drive performance using HDTach to give me an idea of what I was working with with my new DroboPro. Of course true to any benchmarking test – there are so many metrics that can be tested that may be able to give me [...]
Tags: Drobo, DroboPro, Review, VMWare
filed in Review, Software, Tech, Windows on May.07, 2009
I think Microsoft may have finally created an OS that can replace Windows XP. Of course I’m only speaking about my personal experiences with the latest incarnate of Windows, but it’s all pretty positive.
Same spec’ed laptop as the Windows 7 Beta review I posted a while back. Running its native Vista 64bit installation, I [...]
Tags: 7, RC, upgrade
filed in Hacks, Hardware, Review, Security, Software, Tech on May.01, 2009
The college recently purchased a new Sophos Email Security appliance model. It was very easy to setup and I’m looking forward to having PureMessage filtering our spam and crapmail attacks, it’ll be a good thing.
The Active Directory integration is not a polished as their Web Security appliances’ are. We have two WS1000 appliances, also from [...]
Tags: breakfix, Sophos
filed in Life, Security, Software, Tech on Feb.22, 2009
Now to be perfectly fair, I’m not going to blame all of my issues on BlackBerry or their Enterprise Server. I will however, consider their method of message relay and integration with our environment quite a hack and their support staff a challenge to work with, especially late at night.
That being said… here’s my problem [...]
Tags: BlackBerry, work
filed in Hacks, Security, Software, Tech on Jan.04, 2009
Popular blogging site journalspace.com has been wiped off the Internet by a suspected disgruntled engineer. The engineer was fired months ago for stealing from the company but may have planted a logic bomb or delayed virus that initiated a full server wipe.
The server in question held the database for journalspace.com, which is the contents of [...]
Tags: blog, sabatoge