December 2011 – Page 2 – the far end of the long tail

QuickReview: Kingston DataTraveler BLACKBOX 8GB

Reading Time: < 1 minute This is a fancy and expensive 8GB drive with hardware encryption that was given to me years ago. It requires a proprietary Windows app to decrypt the contents, and can ostensibly be run over by a truck while preserving the contents. Retail is over $200. As an alternative, TrueCrypt is solid multi-platform encryption software with […]

Quick Review: “LG USB Drive 8GB”

Reading Time: < 1 minute WYSIWYG. The red “O” sticker is my addition. It’s a USB 2.0 Drive. Here are the results:

Windows 7 on a Dell Latitude D600

Reading Time: 2 minutes The D600 is, in industry parlance, “end of life.” Mine is on its last leg. It’s traveled extensively, and somewhere in Alaska acquired a dependence on being plugged in, so the fact that it has a dead battery is irrelevant. It’s missing a few screws and is on its second hard disk, but even after […]