Insiden laptop meledak kembali terjadi. Kali ini mendera Toshiba, yang tahun lalu pernah menarik baterai laptopnya. Toshiba pun mendesak pelanggannya untuk segera mengganti baterai mereka menyusul meledaknya satu laptop Toshiba. Sayangnya Toshiba tidak merinci tipe laptop apa yang meledak tersebut. Pastinya, baterai tersebut adalah baterai buatan Sony. Vendor komputer yang berbasis di Tokyo itu hanya …

When it comes to IT security, most enterprises really have roughly the same issues to deal with. Microsoft is no exception. We spent two years on the Risk Management and Compliance team in The Risk Management and Compliance team is charged with defining, monitoring, and correcting the risk posture of all MMS environments (for both customer-facing services and infrastructure coordination). Early on, our manager, Arjuna Shunn, recognized that we needed a technology solution that provided the desired controls and monitoring in a centralized, cohesive fashion. The technologies we’ll discuss here are a direct result of our early ideas, coupled with two years of experience using various Microsoft and third-party products in our operations. First off, we needed security technologies that would cover the three primary control types—preventive, detective, and corrective—as well as provide auditing and reporting. We saw this collection of tools breaking down into four categories: risk management dashboard, …

Back in the days of the paleocomputing era, no one ever thought about installing firewalls on individual computers. Who needed to? Hardly anyone had heard of the Internet, TCP/IP was nowhere in sight, and LAN protocols didn’t route beyond your building or campus. Important data lived on the mainframe or file servers—the information people kept on their desktop computers was rarely mission critical and the computer’s own weight afforded a certain amount of decent physical security. If there was a connection to the Internet available, there were likely some protocol translators in the way and a packet-filtering router (I mean “firewall”) at the edge, probably configured with too many rules and exceptions.

Management packs are the life-blood of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and are what differentiate it from other management products. MOM uses management packs to put rules, reports, tasks, and views together and can be limited in scope to a specific application or service, such as Active Directory. Microsoft product teams create the management packs for the applications they develop, ensuring that MOM reflects the teams’ deep product knowledge. Furthermore, management packs can be customized to fit your IT environment. You then have rules that monitor and manage the product based on your particular server and application environment.

Say all you want about the benefits of convergence and extra features, but most companies and individuals will admit that the biggest attraction of switching from PSTN phone service to VoIP is the prospect of saving money — in some cases, lots of it. Why VoIP costs less One reason VoIP costs less is the difference in price structuring for long-distance service. Most VoIP plans include unlimited long-distance calling, at least within the United States and Canada. Some also include unlimited calls to western European and other countries. Even for calls to countries where you have to pay for long distance by the minute, those per-minute charges are generally considerably less than what the telcos charge. For example, international rates charged by Vonage and Lingo for calls to Australia, China, and Argentina range from 1 to 6 cents per minute. Typical charges to the same locations from AT&T and Verizon …

Tip 9: Clean up the backup Be sure to check out the Disk Cleanup tool’s advanced options, available on the More Options tab. For example, click More Options, and under System Restore, choose Clean up to delete all but your most recent restore point. Tip 10: Avoid musical duplicates If, after ripping CDs in the Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, you decide to go with a tool like iTunes to interface with your portable music player, be aware that importing songs into iTunes means converting them to the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format, resulting in duplicate music files that will hog your hard disk. To save space, stick to one music player, or at least to one format (such as MP3) that multiple players can handle. Windows Media Player 10 can rip music in MP3 format without any additional software. To select the format for ripping music from CDs to …

Vista may be on the way, but XP hasn’t outlived its usefulness. These tips will help you keep the older operating system vibrant. Tip 1: Get off the upgrade bandwagon If you constantly upgrade to the latest powerhouse versions of your favourite applications without also upgrading your hardware and Windows version, your system will seem older and creakier than ever. Instead of listening to the siren call of endless upgrades, stick with application versions that you know work well with your system. In the same vein, consider turning off the auto-update features that so many applications have these days (with the exception of your firewall, antivirus and anti-spyware tools). An example is Adobe Reader, which seems to phone home faster than you can open a file. To block automatic updates in Adobe Reader 7, click Edit, Preferences, Updates and select Do not automatically check for critical updates. Why should developers …

Suatu hari Seorang Guru berkumpul dengan murid-muridnya… Lalu beliau mengajukan enam pertanyaan… Pertama… “Apa yang paling dekat dengan diri kita di dunia ini…???” Murid-muridnya ada yang menjawab… “orang tua”, “guru”, “teman”, dan “kerabatnya”… Sang Guru menjelaskan semua jawaban itu benar… Tetapi yang paling dekat dengan kita adalah “kematian”… Sebab kematian adalah PASTI adanya….. Lalu Sang Guru meneruskan pertanyaan kedua… “Apa yang paling jauh dari diri kita di dunia ini…???” Murid-muridnya ada yang menjawab… “negara Cina”, “bulan”, “matahari”, dan “bintang-bintang”…

Penyakit yang mulai mengganggu kesehatan sering kali dipicu oleh gaya hidup kita sendiri. Pola makan, kebiasaan merokok, polusi udara perkotaan, serta kurang istirahat dapat berisiko mengalami penyakit. Gaya hidup tidak sehat akan memengaruhi timbulnya timbunan plak dan lemak pada dinding pembuluh darah. Alhasil, penimbunan ini menyebabkan aliran darah tidak lancar. Kardiolog dari RS Harapan Kita Prof Dr Budhi Setianto mengatakan, sirkulasi darah yang baik dihasilkan oleh kerja sama antara jantung, darah, komponen lain, dan pembuluh darah itu sendiri. Apabila terjadi gangguan pada salah satu komponen tersebut, sirkulasi darah akan terganggu. Akibatnya, suplai darah tidak mencukupi kebutuhan dan dapat menyebabkan serangan jantung, stroke, ataupun gangguan fungsi organ tubuh lain. Sebab, darah itu sendiri berperan membawa nutrisi dan oksigen, maka bila tersumbat oleh plak tentu akan mengganggu fungsi tubuh yang lain.