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Counting the cost of forgotten passwords
News Up to 80 percent of calls received by helpdesk staff are from end users who've forgotten their passwords -- and with each support call costing organisations around £15, the problem is not as trivial as it may sound.
[January 14, 2003, 16:00]
Linux wrangle 'will be forgotten'
News The legal challenge the SCO Group has mounted against Linux will eventually become a forgotten chapter in the operating system's history, an IBM executive told attendees of a Linux trade show on Wednesday.
[August 7, 2003, 10:15]
The forgotten story behind IBM's 'first mainframe'
Talkback Often, in an industry so full of hype where all of us are pressured to have the latest and greatest products, we lose sight of the fact that many of the ideas being implemented in microprocessor-based systems go back much further.
[April 12, 2004, 18:35]
Mobile Coverage - a forgotten issue?
Blog Comment I have pretty poor singal in my work building, althought outside is fine. The T-mobile website used to show, no to poor coverage on the map. Then it changed and said medium. I thought great finally i can use my mobile at my desk.
[October 29, 2007, 13:47]
The forgotten story behind IBM's 'first mainframe'
Talkback A very interesting article. Of course I'd love to see something on the *real* fathers of computing. Maurice Wilkes, John Pinkerton and John Simmons deserve to have the story of LEO told. Unlike the IBM guys that Rupert describes, they really were...
[April 7, 2004, 16:00]
The Forgotten Trailer
Downloads In this haunting new psychological thriller, Telly Paretta (Julianne Moore) is tormented by the memory of her eight-year-old son Sam's death in a plane crash 14 months ago. While trying to work through her grief, and her subsequent...
[September 29, 2004, 6:33]
One important thing forgotten: Hot Swap of components
Talkback If a server is to be able to tolerate hardware failures and still provide a service, it's very useful to be able to hot swap the defective components. If not, you can lose over an hour as services shut down, you change the defective component, then...
[October 28, 2009, 12:17]
No Security
Downloads If you've forgotten password of your Palm device, install No Securityand remove the password without loosing any hidden records.There were 3 reasons for meto write No Security: to be used:The Security programthat comes with your Palmhas the...
[November 22, 2009, 3:10]
Monkey Menace for Sony Clie NX
Downloads Deep in the Amazon jungle lies the treasure of the forgotten tribe. Collect the star of Lazarusa to help the Spirit of the forgotten tribe recover the stolen treasures! It was said that the treasure was stolen by a menacing 6-foot tall monkey.
[July 7, 2003, 8:00]
Icewind Dale
Downloads In the northernmost reaches of the FORGOTTEN REALMS lies the frozen and untamed region known as Icewind Dale. Icewind Dale is one of the largest computer dungeon adventures ever created for the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.
[September 6, 2002, 8:00]
myBirthdays
Downloads Meeting a friend and having forgotten his/her birthday or having forgotten your parents Anniversary or, whats much worse, your own? - Won't forget these daysFeature rich, easy to use, attractive user interface and inexpensive - just what you...
[April 4, 2005, 8:00]
Password Self-Service: Taking the Strain Off of Helpdesks
White Papers But managing lost, expired or forgotten passwords can bog down a helpdesk and take valuable IT staff away from strategic projects. Novell offers a solution through Password Self-service capabilities, which enforce strong security policies while...
[October 30, 2009, 2:10]
A life less loaded
Leader To finish: it's late, you want to get home, you're trying to shut down the computer and forgotten task after forgotten task surfaces from the computer's subconscious. IT isn't working, says a report. Instead of making us more productive, it's...
[February 24, 2006, 11:40]
PKGImage
Downloads Because the process is completely modular there is no need to re-image a computer because of a mistake or something was forgotten. More time to get the image finished sooner with more testing freeing up problem solving, adding forgotten software...
[April 3, 2009, 15:07]
To Err, Is Human
Blog Comment That is the lesson Microsoft seems to have forgotten. At this point I think Microsoft needs to listen to its critics more since it seems they've forgotten the users who have to use their software every day to do tasks that really haven't changed...
[December 31, 2008, 7:30]
RIP Act gives police power to decrypt data
News According to Clayton's blog, there are some defences in the statute to failing to comply with a notice — one of which is that you can claim to have forgotten the passphrase for the decryption key. In some scenarios it would be obvious if a...
[October 3, 2007, 16:14]
Skype - Is 10,000 Page Faults per Second normal?
Blog Comment Gladiator the thread was put in to investigate another issue and basically forgotten about - Gladiator it was put in for some debugging and forgotten about - Gladiator Gladiator then said "it was forgotten to be removed" and "it was basically...
[December 6, 2007, 21:52]
Why you should care about the RIP Act
News The defendant would have to give a good reason for not complying with an order; perhaps he has simply forgotten where he put the key, or perhaps he never had it and the data belongs to someone else. It's then up to the prosecution to prove that the...
[August 15, 2006, 15:50]
Go the extra mile -- secure Windows admin account
News Even if no one in your office is dishonest enough to steal a password and you've never forgotten to log out, your administrator account could still be exploited. For example, how many times have you fixed a problem at someone's PC and accidentally...
[February 11, 2003, 10:58]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog but not forgotten. You will not be forgotten. Walking towards the bus stop last night after a pleasant evening sweltering in Soho, I make a detour with half a hope of grabbing a last pint in noted Hanway Place drinking hole, Troy's.
[July 28, 2006, 18:50]
