Jonathan Hensley | The Blog

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Network Access Control: Deploy Now or Wait?
  Network Access Control (NAC) sounds like something of a panacea—: technology that can not only authenticate who is using your company's network, but also ensure that users' methods of access are virus-free and fully comply with your company's corporate security policies. And NAC has been getting a lot of press lately—proponents tout its ability to keep corporate networks clean and healthy in ways that technologies of the past couldn't.
• VMware Bug is Worse Than a Glitch To Users Who Depend on It
  When VMware VI3 Update 2 was release, VMware placed incorrect sizes for the ISO images on their website, apparently due to some automation issue. However, a worse problem awaited people on August 12th; A problem that would disable licensing and keep new VMs from being booted. But already running VMs worked just fine.
• New PCs can wake up when they get phone calls
  Intel Corp. is unveiling new technology that will let computers wake up from their power-saving sleep state when they receive a phone call over the Internet.
• New Dell Latitude Notebooks: No More Business as Usual
  Today we’re officially unveiling our new line of Latitude laptops to the world. Based on the amount of internal buzz and the volume of work it took to get us here, this is about the biggest product rollout I can remember—
• HitMeLater Re-Sends Email When You Want It
  HitMeLater could be handy when you're checking mobile email or need double-assurance that you'll follow up on a message. No registration required.
• Blog Archive Behind NBC’s Olympics Website
  Four years ago there was just a few dozen hours of video up on the site. Thousands of machines are needed to encode and serve the video and the site. Interesting conversation, hope you enjoy a little look behind one of the people who worked behind the scenes for months on this site.
• 6 Reasons Today’s Olympic Swimmers are Breaking so many World Records
  For some reason every swim event in this Olympics is a record smasher. And it isn’t just Michael Phelps who’s seconds ahead of that daunting green world record line. Curious what’s making this year’s athletes so much faster? Here are 6 possible answers.