PC Magazine is advocating a bring your own laptop, with your own software approach to business. It likens it to mechanics who bring their own tools. The trouble is that while mechanical tools in a toolbox operate autonomously and don’t interfere with one another, software residing on a computer does.
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The trouble with bringing your own software
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 3, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/05/the-trouble-with-bringing-your-own-software/
R.I.P.: Netbooks
The last two netbook vendors standing, Acer and Asus, have both announced they’ve produced their last netbook. So they’re joining the Playstation 2 in the land of the digital dinosaurs, though I suspect more people will miss the 12-year-old game console than the netbook. The Guardian has an analysis, but basically they blame the emergence [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on January 1, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/01/r-i-p-netbooks/
Office 2010, early impressions
I’ve mentioned several times that I hadn’t seen Office 2010 yet, so I couldn’t comment on it, and would reserve judgment until I’ve seen it. I’ve been working for companies that were a bit behind the times on that. I’ve been working with it for a week now. I won’t be buying it for my [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 3, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/09/office-2010-early-impressions/
Ways to keep your password from being guessed–today
Articles like Ars Technica’s Why passwords have never been weaker — and crackers have never been stronger are getting more and more common these days. In a positive development, I don’t think the story had been live more than an hour or two before people started asking me questions. That’s good, because that tells me [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on August 23, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/08/ways-to-keep-your-password-from-being-guessed-today/
A tool for learning Windows and Office keyboard shortcuts
Sometimes my coworkers will watch me write, because they like a freak show. I guess they’ve never seen someone who uses the mouse as little as I do. If I know a keyboard shortcut, I use it. It’s faster, I say, and they agree I have a point. This morning I found a tool called [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on August 19, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/08/a-tool-for-learning-windows-and-office-keyboard-shortcuts/
End of the innocence for Mac security
Antivirus vendor Kapersky has identified a new trojan horse targetting Macintoshes. It spreads a botnet based somewhere in China via an infected Microsoft Word document, typically sent as an e-mail attachment. The spin is that if you don’t use Word on your Mac, you’re safe. That’s true–this week. But going forward, it’s going to take [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 30, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/end-of-the-innocence-for-mac-security/
Living with a past-its-prime computer
I’m playing catch-up a bit. This weekend, Lifehacker ran a guide about living with a computer that’s past its prime. I’ve made a career of that. One of my desktop PCs at work (arguably the more important one) is old enough that I ought to be preparing to send it off to second grade. And [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 28, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/02/living-with-a-past-its-prime-computer/
Happy Patch Tuesday, September 2011
Microsoft has five updates and Adobe has two for us on this fine Patch Tuesday, in addition to a patch Mozilla pushed out for Firefox last week. Don’t get too complacent if you run something other than Windows. If you run Microsoft Office on a Mac, or Adobe Reader or Acrobat on a Mac, or [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 13, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/09/happy-patch-tuesday-september-2011/