All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Symantec Stay ahead of stealth security threats Reduce the propagation of malicious code, lower your risk profile, provide greater network availability and much more with Symantec Network Access Control. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 10/09/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Goodbye DPCs, hello (simple) groupware I have a theory: Microsoft is trying to drive me insane. You may recollect that last week I was flummoxed (ohhh, good word and one that I have never managed to use in a column before) by the appearance of a ridiculously high rate of deferred procedure calls (DPC) on my PC, which is running Windows XP. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Improve App Performance with Web Acceleration Find out how to improve the delivery of Web applications to geographically dispersed users with Web acceleration tools. Learn, in this webcast, how to shop for these products and the best and worst applications to accelerate. View this Webcast now. Backspin: Computer insecurity Following my BackSpin column of a couple of weeks ago about corporate hippos that screw up project plans, Douglas Davis (Manteno, Ill.) wrote to tell me I am “the great white hunter of all things hippo and gorilla (you know, the 3,000 pound ones that always get their way).” To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days For the Geek Who Has Everything This, from ThinkGeek: Thanks to the ingenious ThinkGeek robot monkeys you can display the current wi-fi signal strength to yourself and everyone around you with this stylish Wi-Fi Detector Shirt. The glowing bars on the front of the shirt dynamically change as the surrounding wi-fi signal strength fluctuates. "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute" From eWEEK: WASHINGTON (Reuters)—An international crackdown on Internet financial scams this year has yielded more than $2.1 billion in seized fake checks and 77 arrests in the Netherlands, Nigeria and Canada, U.S. and others, authorities said on Wednesday. If You’re Going to Plaster City, Be Sure to Wear Flame Retardant in Your Hair If you are anywhere in the vicinity of Plaster City next Saturday, October 6th, you might want to stop for a few hours. Where Are YOUR Backups? From last week's headlines: HOLLYWOOD - Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola lost 15 years of computer data during a recent burglary at his Argentinean home.

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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 This newsletter is sponsored by Symantec Stay ahead of stealth security threats Reduce the propagation of malicious code, lower your risk profile, provide greater network availability and much more with Symantec Network Access Control. 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