Archive for: December 2010

27 December 2010

Check Point R75 Now Available

Filed under: check point,security,software - 27 Dec 2010

Anyone who’s following the Check Point TwitterFacebook page, or has been peeking around in User Center has probably seen the release of R75–Check Point’s next major release. DLP, Mobile Access, Identity Awareness, and Application Control are all …

Streaming Movies Should Cost 99 Cents

Filed under: entertainment,gadgets,Services - 27 Dec 2010

Seeing as I was planning to go see the new Tron: Legacy movie today (I did–it was pretty good IMO), I figured it’d be a good idea to refresh my memory and watch the orignal. …

24 December 2010

This Incident Will be Reported

Filed under: computers - 24 Dec 2010

Via xkcd: Incident

22 December 2010

Skype Outage: Why, And What You Should Do

Filed under: software,voip - 22 Dec 2010

As someone who works with a team remotely–and makes heavy use of Skype–I certainly noticed Skype not working properly. The reason? From Skype’s Status Page:
Earlier today, we noticed that the number of people online on Skype was falling, which wasn’t …

5 December 2010

Power PC Ubuntu Mini (Formerly Mac Mini)

Filed under: apple,computers,gadgets - 05 Dec 2010

I finally made my old Power PC-based Mac Mini useful. I installed the latest fUbuntu release on it, which even though the makers of Ubuntu don’t officially support, works reasonably well.

Of course, …

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