All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Data Protection: Implementing an Effective Company-Wide Strategy Due to the growth of remote office and mobile computing, critical company data is widely distributed across enterprise networks, with no backup or disaster recovery plan in place. As such, the top remote office support issues companies face today are backup and restoration of data, disaster recovery, and compliance, according to the IT research firm IDC. Companies must be concerned with the cost of downtime, regulatory penalties for data loss, and customer confidence issues if data is compromised, corrupted or lost. Click here to read this whitepaper and learn more today! Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 06/05/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Hardware: The weird and the cool This week we were going to continue the discussion launched last week about CD/DVD creation and management tools, but because of technical problems, we've had a slight change of plan. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. The IDC Enterprise Panel: Join IDCs panel of IT influencers and decision-makers. Your contributions will be compiled and distributed to technology and telecommunications vendors all over the world. As a thank you for joining, you will receive select free IDC research, and discounted IDC conference passes. Click here to learn more Backspin: Ameritrade leaks and more Wi-Fi theft First of all, there is something that I meant to discuss a few weeks ago that surprisingly has not gotten much coverage. Art Medlar, a fellow inhabitant of a mail list I subscribe to explained that he is a client of TD Ameritrade, and being a cautious kind of guy he used unique primary and alternate e-mail aliases for his account. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Tech Support Excuses My favorites have been "Ambient Air Fluctuations" and "Eye-Dee-Ten-Tee Error" (get a piece of paper and write those five characters down). But you can only use those just so many times. Along comes Jaco Strauss' Tech Support Excuse Generator with 5,826,168 unique excuses for tech support personnel. Jumpstarting Ubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn" Tired of the Micro$oft monoculture? Tired of buying new versions of Windows every few years, only to find the new version won't run on your current hardware? Wishing for something better/faster/cheaper? Best SSID? With relevancy to the Backspin column on WiFi crime and punishment and the ongoing discussion here in Gibbsblog Network World's online editing god, Adam Gaffin, just told me that one of his neighbors who uses WiFi (and who has security enabled) has set his SSID to be visible as "F*** Off Losers". Pre-release Vista says Good-bye If you are using a pre-release version of Vista, today is your last day to do something about it. Beginning June 1 your copy of Vista will begin shutting down and rebooting after two hours of use, without warning. This behavior will continue until August 28 when it stops completely.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. What Google bought in the past 12 months 2. Avaya buyout rumors reveal VoIP market churn 3. Did Street View spook Eric Schmidt? 4. Malware hidden in fake IRS notices 5. Adult filmmakers taking their lumps on ‘Net? 6. Is Apple enterprise-ready? 7. Google Desktop vulnerable to new attack 8. EMC buys authentication service provider Verid 9. Will Cisco suffer IBM's fate? 10. Michigan man fined for using free Wi-Fi MOST E-MAILED STORY: Michigan man fined for using free Wi-Fi

Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here. Archives of the Network World Web Applications newsletter can be found here. This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Data Protection: Implementing an Effective Company-Wide Strategy Due to the growth of remote office and mobile computing, critical company data is widely distributed across enterprise networks, with no backup or disaster recovery plan in place. As such, the top remote office support issues companies face today are backup and restoration of data, disaster recovery, and compliance, according to the IT research firm IDC. Companies must be concerned with the cost of downtime, regulatory penalties for data loss, and customer confidence issues if data is compromised, corrupted or lost. Click here to read this whitepaper and learn more today! BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007