Episode 12 - It’s Pronounced Kickstart
Automation, Desktops, General Interest, Networking, OLPC, Patches, SPAM, Servers August 18th, 2007
Recorded: August 14, 2007
Your Hosts: Keith Albright and Rich Niemeier
Show Length: 1:33:58
Sorry it took so long to edit and post. I took a couple vacation days and didn’t get to do the final steps.
Just Rich and I this episode…..unless you count ‘Virtual Ted’. Rich and I cover the usual gamut of news topics; Novell/SCO Unix lawsuit, Google’s 700Mhz Spectrum bid, and a NJ beach town’s plans to be the next technological marvel. Rich uncovers follow-up information about the health-risks of laser printers. We discuss what Apple can do to help with lost/stolen iPods and how to audit USB device usage on your network. We end with our website picks and as usual, we hope you enjoy.
Links mentioned in this show:
- Laser Printer Health Risks
- Ocean City NJ Beach Of The Future
- Guy Gets a BSOD Tattoo
- Google Bids On 700Mhz Spectrum
- Novell Wins SCO Lawsuit
- Stolen iPods
- OLPC Update
- Kixtart Quick Reference Guide
- Audit USB Device Usage
- Wi-Spy Spectrum Analyzer
Other podcasts mentioned in this show:
None
See the full show notes here.
Website Picks:
Keith’s Pick: NPA Lookup Tool
Rich’s Pick: New video site - VBS.TV
August 20th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Guys,
Another great podcast. I’d love to work out a way to contribute to your podcast in whatever manner you think would work best. (I’ll email you my contact info.)
Regarding your discussion of USB devices:
Here is an article about locking out USB drives via a registry key. It is a simple exercise to abstract that to a custom administrative template to deploy with Active Directory.
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/04/disable-usb-drives.html
They have also updated the article with a utility to do that and another option (renaming usb storage drivers) as well.
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/01/disable-usb-flash-drives.html
P.S. I loved the intro segment.
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:32 am
Just wanted to let you know that its still a great podcast and I’m enjoying it profoundly.
August 23rd, 2007 at 11:00 am
Thank you Cd-MaN. We appreciate the feedback.