Author: Witzke

Help the Invisible Children in Uganda

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Three young film makers went to Uganda to make a documentary. They came back with a story to tell and a promise made to the “Invisible Children”.

Invisible Children is a grassroots effort to create awareness and provide help and education to the children in Uganda who are being kidnapped and forced into the rebel armies as child soldiers.

You can make a difference by joining the Global Night Commute on April 29, 2006 or by purchasing the Invisible Children DVD and showing it to everyone you know.

These two video clips will have an impact on your life and what you can do to help: Proof and 100 Percent.

VeriSign to acquire Kontiki

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CNET reports that VeriSign to acquire Kontiki. This is good news for the online content distribution ecosystem. I’ve used Kontiki in the past and it has very robust architecture that can be used to reduce bandwidth costs both inside enterprise networks and for B2C secure content distribution.

Microsoft to ‘host’ Linux virtually

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Microsoft is finally accepting the reality that enterprises want to use Linux within their IT environment. CNET reports that Microsoft to ‘host’ Linux virtually.

It’s better to share in the pie and control how the pie is divided, than losing all the business to . We’ll have to wait and see what performance degradation comes with Windows being the host OS.

At last – Self destructing storage devices

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For those who need to take highly secure information with them, the new Kington Self-Destruct Privacy Flash Drive could be the ticket. After 25 failed passwords the USB drive “melts” the data.

This can be great for stopping unauthorized access, but, what if someone slips it into there pocked and does the 25 invalid attempts on purpose. There goes your data!