Last week a senior Microsoft security executive blamed the security flaw on 'lazy' systems administrators for failing to properly configure or patch the software that was to blame, not the software itself.
Presently computers come with manuals to describe how to configure the system, creating a certain mindset for the IT worker. One of our first aims is to try to build computers that can configure themselves without human intervention," he said.
In short, for the average user, installing a wireless network is a massive, massive hassle. It's also quite handy to share a printer or send files up and down stairs without having to email them from one computer to another.
Dell, which ditched floppies as standard equipment on its Inspiron 4150 and 8250 notebooks last summer, will let customers configure one of its top-of-the-line Dimension 8250 PCs without a floppy drive by the end of this month, company...
Phynd is a generic search engine technology that lets users configure it to search whatever they want, including FTP sites, websites or local files such as those found on a college network. Colleges have attempted to crack down on the practice of...
Kerio users should configure the firewall to allow the new Microsoft file to execute without warning, it said. The problems include being unable to access or save files in special folders like "My Documents" and "My Pictures", and unresponsive...
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