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Its been around since 2006, and it might not be to everyones taste, but The IT Crowd it funny and very often cringeworthy if you work in the magical world of IT. Overtime I have also found the theme music kinda catchy, so if different ringtones are your thing, I have uploaded the title music mp3 for you to download. IT Crowd Theme Tune

What ever you do, dont type Google into Google….
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Extract from Wikipedia
The IT Crowd
is set in the offices of Reynholm Industries, a fictitious British corporation in central London. It focuses on the shenanigans of the three-strong IT support team located in a dingy, untidy and unkempt basement — a stark contrast to the shining modern architecture and stunning London views enjoyed by the rest of the organisation. The obscurity surrounding what the company does serves as a running gag throughout the series — all that is known is that the company bought and sold ITV and once made part-year profits of “eighteen hundred billion billion”. The team consists of what Douglas Reynholm describes as “a dynamic go-getter (Jen), a genius (Moss) and a man from Ireland (Roy)”.

Moss and Roy, the two technicians, are portrayed as socially inept geeks or, in Denholm Reynholm’s words, “standard nerds”. Despite the company’s dependence on their services, they are despised, ignored, and considered losers by the rest of the staff. Roy’s exasperation is reflected in his support techniques of ignoring the phone in the hope it will stop ringing, and using reel-to-reel tape recordings of stock IT suggestions (“Have you tried turning it off and on again?” and “Are you sure it’s plugged in?”). Moss’s wide and intricate knowledge of all things technical is reflected in his extremely accurate yet utterly indecipherable suggestions, while demonstrating a complete inability to deal with practical problems like extinguishing fires and removing spiders.

Jen, the newest member of the team, is hopelessly non-technical, despite claiming on her CV that she has “a lot of experience with computers”. As Denholm, the company boss, is equally tech-illiterate, he’s convinced by Jen’s interview bluffing and appoints her head of the IT department. Her official title is “relationship manager”, yet her attempts at bridging the gulf between the technicians and the business generally have the opposite effect, landing Jen in situations just as ludicrous as those of her team-mates.

Well its been a while since I have had a need to dust of one of my many USB storage devices, and whilst having a digg about I found my trusty IronKey. I had forgotten what a splendid device this is, its like the James Bond gadget of USB devices, its waterproof, rugged, its self destructing, and it looks super sexy.

On plugging in it had a few updates to do (Must look into what these updates were), and then I was back up and running. Excellent also that you can do secure Internet browsing (like the Tor networks) with its onboard applications, sadly there are Firefox 3.0 issues currently, but I am sure that will be fixed in the future.

This bit of kit, is really worth considering if you or your organisation are looking for an encrypted USB Storage Device.

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Many organisation under estimate the risk of data loss through removable storage, such as USB, CD, DVD etc. There are many hardware and software solutions to control the flow of data, and are well worth considering.

I am sure many of you will have heard of Googles latest maps feature, Latitude.
Basically it utilises the Google maps for mobile devices, and the fact that many of these feature in built GPS units.
So now you can keep track of your friends and family, or if your abit of a numpty leave it activated so people can see you, not where you said you would be :)

Seriously though, there is alot of hype going on about the security risks with this new feature, however you need to give permission to allow someone to view your status, and also set the mobile device to show the status.

So if your using this, then make sure you disable your visable status when you dont want to be spied on.

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I heard about some road side sign hacking, and I thought it sounded excellent. Obviously there are some safety risks here, as the signs are really there to inform about the road conditions. No doubt this will spark the good old, all Hackers are evil, but still I thought it was worth posting.

For more information check out i-hacked.com

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