Recent content by w00dix

There have been a few threads for commercial solutions but I'm looking for something geared more towards the home user. There's just too much damned paper that I must hang on to for one reason or another and I want to insure that stuff survives any sort of damage to my residence (fire, flood...

OpenDNS. Use it. Love it. I stopped using ISP DNS after discovering them. I set just about everything to use it unless there's specific cause to use provided DNS. http://www.opendns.com If you have a business, be a good person and use their commercial version. It means the rest of us...

The real story here is that some admin wiped someone's phone and then didn't do the right thing and try to fix their mistake. Or maybe they did. We'll never know because NPR didn't attempt to contact the employer for comment or rebuttal. Does it suck that the phone got wiped and all of her...

Seriously. So it protects me AFTER I know there's a problem that's potentially infected my system. And it may decide that benign files like ntoskernel are malicious and delete--I'm sorry "quarantine" them. And why would I pay for this again? As an earlier poster said, MSE is a cheap...

Just looked these up. Now I feel a bit dumb(er). Thanks!

Looking for storage solution to run VMware workloads over NFS and standard SMB filesharing for network local hosts. I've been toying around with the idea of using Nextenta or OpenSolaris so as to get the most feature complete version of ZFS but Opensolaris device support isn't anywhere near as...

Girls that play games: good. Girls defending themselves: good. Girls taking weapons to school: bad. US schools take a very dim view of this given events of the past decade (columbine and the copy cats) so kids found with anything even remotely threatening are treated quite harshly--sometimes...

Gartner and Forrester are amongst the many research companies that publish data on this sort of thing. While you typically have to pay for it, there are plenty of google links out there that'll give you the data you need. Off the top of my head: McAfee, CheckPoint, and PGP all make pretty...