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SPAM
Attach Advice
My poor customers (and I) have this local Jaycees guy filling out our websites'
online forms with SPAM about the Jaycess upcoming events. I"ve asked him to quit
but he keeps going. He says we are a public website and he can do what he wants....
Word
and Win 98
Have a problem with a clapped out computer that I have been called out to fix!
I was working but somebody has done something or the hardware is failing... Basically
it is a 633 Celeron running 98 SP 1 with 63 RAM (?) and has a 8Gb hard drive partitioned
to 50%... Can you help?
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03.09.06
Google Desktop Vs. Corporate
IT
 By
Nathan Weinberg
Silicon.com takes a look at some corporate IT departments that are worried about employees installing the latest version of Google Desktop Search on their systems.
They worry that their corporate data is getting transferred over to Google's servers,
and rightfully so.
Analyst Gartner last week warned that the 'search across computers'
feature on the latest version of Google Desktop poses an "unacceptable risk" to
many organisations because it allows people to share information and also stores
some of that data on Google servers.
Richard Steel, head of ICT at Newham, said: "This is because Newham data will
be copied onto Google servers and kept there indefinitely. There is no contract
in place between Newham and Google for secure data handling, and under their terms
and conditions, they retain the right to search the data for their own purposes."
Now, we've all heard the arguements that Desktop doesn't steal
your data, that you have to turn on the feature yourself, but the fact of the
matter is, there are a huge number of companies that simply don't want you taking
the files on your work computer and storing them anywhere else, let alone on the
servers of another major corporation.
This isn't about privacy, or about Google, but about simple network policies.
There are many programs that allow you to do things that your company's IT department
doesn't want you doing, either out of paranoia or policy. It's usually a bad idea
to go against that, and I think you'll find more companies uninstalling and banning
desktop search in the future.
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