Category Archives: Society

Limiting logon hours on Windows XP

This is for my fellow parents out there.
Windows Vista has a nice graphical tool for restricting logon hours for individual user accounts on the system. It’s basically a reworking of what’s been available to Windows network admins for years, first on NT and later versions — including Windows XP Professional and Home Edition.
After [...]

Don’t buy any technology without checking with me first

I’ll keep this short.
Message to the Next President:
Please don’t buy any technology without checking with me first.
Yes, I know you’ve got a bunch of really smart IT folks working with you right now. Their work on your website is proof of their competence and creativity.
But you’re about to enter a different world, where vendors routinely [...]