It already seems forever ago! Remember Anna Chapman, the completely technologically inept Russian spy the US busted and sent back to the motherland? She’s now doing IT work for a Russian bank. Her Maxim cover shoot definitely was not a factor. More »
Wilber Williams has spent the past 25 years or so building the Museum of IT at Queensland University. Now the University has decided to shut down the museum, and a large section of historical computer hardware, software and documentation faces the very real threat of being thrown in a skip. We’re hoping that someone out there can help find this equipment a new home. More »
Bonus promotions are great for consumer products, but what about all those poor IT managers who spend thousands of dollars on hardware without getting anything extra chucked in? Why should they miss out? Well, Samsung has come to the rescue, with a promotion specifically for their IT range of products. More »
Recently, Nikon fired off this French ad comparing the Coolpix2100 camera to the larger and more supple Coolpix3100. Meanwhile, a female journalist friend of mine had, well, an “experience” at a VMWare user’s group meeting.
This one’s more for the IT dudes, but is interesting as an indication of how we may see more speed squeezed out of the 802.11n wi-fi spec: a new enterprise access point from Proxim uses two 802.11n radios simultaneously, effectively doubling throughput to 320 Mbps (a single wireless N radio maxes out at around 170 Mbps). But it can’t just be that simple, right?
If you’re working at Dunder-Mifflin and you’re lifting a highlighter or two every now and then, Michael may feign disapproval, but that’s about it. On the other side of the coin is Victor Papagno, a sysadmin for the US Naval Research Laboratory, who was recently busted for jacking over 20,000 pieces of gear worth $US120,000–from ink cartridges to hard drives to software–over the course of 10 years.
If you needed another reason to keep your sysadmins happy: Out of 300 IT pros polled by security company Cyber Ark, 88% said they would steal sensitive data or futz with master login passwords if they happened to be fired. Granted, this is a study publicised by a company that offers services to protect networks against internal rogue operators, but the more data like this that comes out, the nicer our brave IT managers are likely to be treated. Or, the more ridiculous security barriers will be put in place to keep the good ones from easily doing their jobs–one or the other. So perhaps we should have our own informal comment survey–IT dudes: Would you go 21st century postal on your employers if you were let go? [Ars Technica, Image: shearforce]
