All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Secure Computing Webinar: Network Security Learn how token-based, one-time password authentication systems can help enterprises reduce business risk, better comply with regulations, are easy to manage and most importantly keep networks secure. Tune in to this webinar. Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 11/06/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: A little more on DPCs and some PPC apps Last week I concluded by threatening to tell you what I found out about my errant deferred procedure call problem, but I’m still working on it. An interesting suggestion for why DPCs on my Windows XP box have been inexplicably using up to 40% of the processor came from reader Dave Pampreen (Auburn Hills, Mich.): A friend of his killed the performance of his family’s PC by installing a 2.5MB image — which Windows converted into a 15MB BMP file -- on the machine as a desktop background. DEMO 08 / January 28-30, 2008 / Palm Desert, CA At DEMO, innovation is waiting for you at every corner. It goes beyond hearing what you already know and seeing what you've already seen. DEMO is the place to experience the new products and technologies poised to reshape our future. Save the date for DEMO 08 and get ready for the extraordinary new innovations awaiting you. Register now at or call 800-643-4668. Want to Launch at DEMO? Apply here: Click Here for More Information To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Backspin: Behavioral advertising isn’t the big problem The following quote is from the report "Consumer Rights and Protections in the Behavioral Advertising Sector" presented by a whole passel of privacy activists during the Federal Trade Commission’s Town Hall meeting titled “Ehavioral Advertising: Tracking, Targeting, and Technology,” held on Nov. 1 and 2: “The online tracking and targeting of consumers — both in its current form and as it may develop in the future — needs to be limited so that consumers can exercise meaningful, granular preferences based on timely and contextual disclosures that are understandable on whichever devices consumers choose to use ….Companies engaged in monitoring and tracking must respect consumer privacy by implementing Fair Information Practices, and there must be a structure that allows for enforcement of these rights.” To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Cubicle, Sweet Cubicle If you thought Office Space was a documentary, then you're gonna relate -- here's one for all the cube farmers out there: The 'Winners' of the Wired News Saddest-Cubicle Contest I believe you have my stapler... Everex TC2502 Green gPC Wal-Mart has announced that they are selling the Everex TC2502 Green gPC online and in select stores. Their web page includes a link (enable javascript) to find those stores (none within a hundred miles of me). Virtualized Leopard Now Legal Over on TidBITS: Apple to Allow Virtualization of Leopard. 'Bout time too. Lyx Licks Document Creation Yesterday I checked out Lyx, a remarkable open source, freeware, text processing and formatting system based on the venerable LaTeX system with a GUI to make it palatable. All a-Twitter Do you Twitter? The more I play with Twitter the more impressed I am that such a simple and elegant concept could become so powerful as a social networking medium and that it would spawn so many way cool mashups. Goodnight Moon, Goodnight Windows Explorer So, why does Windows Explorer occasionally go to sleep when you launch it? On my Windows XP PC I’ll often launch a new instance and watch Explorer just sit there apparently doing nothing! I thought the problem was due to Explorer trying to handle network drives mapped as local drives but even when I’ve removed all mapped drives the problem still exists. Any ideas? Editor's note: Starting the week of Nov. 12, subscribers to the HTML version of this newsletter will notice some enhancements to the layout that will provide you with easier and clearer access to a wider range of resources at Network World. We hope you enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters.

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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 Secure Computing Webinar: Network Security Learn how token-based, one-time password authentication systems can help enterprises reduce business risk, better comply with regulations, are easy to manage and most importantly keep networks secure. Tune in to this webinar. BONUS FEATURE 90% of IT Managers are leaving their company at risk for a DNS ATTACK. Get the tools and resources you need to keep your DNS healthy and secure. Run a DNSreport on your domain today - 56 critical tests run in 8 seconds. Visit www.dnsreport.com to learn more. (apply coupon NWW2007NLA for a 25% membership discount) 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