Monthly Archives: March 2005

Using USB Drive with ZENworks Imaging

Very simple clear instructions for using a USB Drive with ZENworks Imaging. Worked for me, although on some machines I had to replace “MOUNT /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd” with “MOUNT /dev/sda4 /mnt/usbhd” or sometimes /dev/sda3.

Power-hungry PCs cost users

The BBC reports on the cost of not shutting computers off when not in use - “”Most people could easily save £100 a year and a small-to-medium sized company should easily cut £5,000 off its bills just by following our advice,” said Mr Ross.” For those of us in the US, that’s $9170. Our Middle [...]

Cell-phone complaints: A sorry picture for Cingular/AT&T

Consumer’s Union (publisher of Consumer Reports) has released their annual report on complaints against cell carriers.
The data seems to match my experiences - with Cingular, we have had few billing issues, but have had a fair number of service issues. It’s too bad, because I believe that most of the problems I encountered could have [...]

VNC via cell phone

KDDI and Hitachi Systems and Services have teamed up to bring “micro-VNC” to KDDI’s au phones. I’ve played around with VNC on palm/pocket pc’s and found it barely useable. I’m not sure what benefit porting it to a cell phone brings, but it’s still somehow impressive!

Novell Announces Enhancements for GroupWise

“Novell to deliver new product features, 10-year extended support commitment and pre-bundled Linux with upcoming version of leading collaboration product”
At this week’s BrainShare conference, Novell made some nice announcements about GroupWise. Announced upcoming features are: enhanced client code for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and the Web, support for Microsoft Outlook, and new SOAP/XML interfaces to support [...]