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That Damn PC

Archive for the ‘Crises’ Category

June 3rd, 2008

Patience is a virtue

Please, keep the stories rolling in. This is yet another bothered IT admin reporting:
Don’t yell and don’t swear, if you want me to take your request seriously and not dump it at the bottom of my list of things to do then talk to me professionally. I have things to do and you have […]

By Jesse -- 0 comments

May 29th, 2008

Look but don’t touch — The art of not unplugging

Look but don’t touch.
Touch, but don’t taste.
Taste, don’t swallow.

         –Al Pacino, The Devil’s Advocate
While this is one of my favorite quotes of all time, it fits perfectly into my next so-called rant and funny story. Windowsitpro.com had a great story about a university web site going down because someone took the X-box out of the […]

By Jesse -- 2 comments

January 23rd, 2008

How to respond to a cyber law-enforcement incident

PC Magazine writes: “It’s a typical Monday morning, except after you saunter into the office sipping Starbucks, the door flies open behind you and a flurry of federal badges rush into reception with warrant paperwork. Turns out Elliott in sales has been downloading child pornography. Or maybe Grant in accounting has been skimming a few […]

By Kiven -- 0 comments

December 16th, 2006

Computer security is sometimes an oxymoron

As 2006 draws to a close, computer security has almost become an oxymoron.This month we find that some of the very tools we use to fight malware, spybots, spambots and viruses have gone over to the ‘dark side.’
But it won’t stay that way for long, as security experts scramble to patch the web, patch computers, […]

By Mary Ford -- 0 comments

March 30th, 2006

Indiana Savings Time

This next weekend marks the beginning of Daylight Savings Time in the United States. Most of the nation historically “springs ahead” and hour but until this year, Indiana has not. Indiana has been the one state in the union that has refused to adopt DST but this year, finally, they have complied. […]

By Aaron -- 3 comments

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