As most of my friends know, I’m a storage junkie. I’m addicted to storing every digital scrap I get. Currently my main home computer has about 2.5Tb; yeah, that’s terabytes with another 650Gb of storage shared on the network in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) unit. My wife’s computer has less but still I think it has about 250Gb storage.
My current NAS is 95% full and the lack of free space is slowing down access (I’m sure there are some badly fragmented files but I can’t defrag it until I free up more space).
I’m considering the following storage options:
Technology D-Link, HP, MediaSmart Server, My Book, NAS, storage, WD, Western Digital
Fox News reports that thousands of users’ logon credentials and some private data was compromised by hackers phishing Hotmail’s website.
This is another reminder (I’m included as well) to be vigilant.
- Keep separate passwords for different sites (e.g. – Google/Gmail, Yahoo, Facebook, etc.)
- Include a mixture of lowercase, uppercase, numerals and, if the site supports it, a special character or two (e.g. – #, !, $, etc.)
- Change your passwords on a regular basis.
One idea might be to change your passwords once a month, on payday or at least as often as you remember. If you have to carry around a list of different passwords then that’s better than using all the same passwords and never changing them.
Uncategorized Facebook, Gmail, Google, Hack, Hotmail, IAM, Phish, Security
Frank Abagnale, whose life was the subject of the movie Catch Me If You Can, will be speaking to us this year during Customer Service Week. It’s another example of how the company invests in us not only motivationally but in timely, topical fashion. Frank’s wheelhouse was scamming folks as a con man. This ties-in to customer service insofar as protecting sensitive customer data; acting responsibly from a corporate and an individual point of view.
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Frank Abagnale Is Speaking To Us For Customer Service Week
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Professional Customer Service, Disability, Frank Abagnale, Insurance, Unum
I’ve enjoyed and benefitted from DevLink (Twitter) 2009 on my first trip. It’s an intensive set of presentations by developers and it’s aimed at developers. It’s $75 and it’s code-on-the-screen; you’ll see what the speaker is talking about while he/she works through the topic. There are tons of speakers from the INETA conference circuit so often you’ll get to hear straight from authors you’ve read (if you read about IT).
This years topics covered functional programming (F#, Haskell, etc.), LINQ, WPF, WCF, Design Patterns among several one-off presentations.
There was a mixer at the Nashville Sounds baseball game Friday night and several giveaways.
Uncategorized DevLink, INETA, IT, Technology
Monday, April 6, Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, announced plans of the Obama administration to make major changes to the U.S. military. The intended goal of the administration is to shift focus from larger, more conventional warfare to smaller, unconventional wars like Iraq and Afghanistan or insurgents from Pakistan who disrupt their host nation and raid into neighboring Afghanistan.
I like the idea of focusing on an agile, unconventional military and I see scrapping the F-22 as a potentially worthwhile deal (how long has that thing been in development?) but I think it’s ridiculous to not keep a large, standing military with “dumb” weapons like rifles as well as putting dollars into developing new technology planes and submarines. I don’t like the idea of throwing away the conventional for the unconventional; I’d prefer that we utilize both.
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Pres. Obama, Sec’y of Defense Gates Want to Cut the Military
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Editorial Council on Foreign Relations, President Obama, Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, Wall Street Journal
