The e-mail brings news of discounts at the Practising Law Institute:
Now through tomorrow, January 25, order any PLI Treatise at 40% off. Please forward this email to your colleagues so they can also take advantage of this sale.
If you prefer to order by phone, please call PLI’s Customer Relations Department at (800) 260-4754 and [...]
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The issue of net neutrality came home to me personally the other day, when I got a sales call from my home TV Cable and Internet Broadband provider. Comcast isn’t satisfied with tv and internet, but wants me to purchase my telephone service from them, too, for $40 per month for unlimited service. [...]
Some security experts send along a press release about a new version of their password auditing software, and it is said to work with Vista, too.
Reduce Network Security Threats with Password Security Audit Software
ElcomSoft, a global leader in password recovery solutions, has released Proactive Password Auditor(TM) 1.7, a password audit and security test tool that [...]
Over the years, I’ve looked at several secure Web spaces designed to be shared by opposing parties or co-counsel for sharing of electronic documents for discovery or collaboration. Different sites provide different tool sets, but they all provided, at a minimum, for upload and viewing of documents by authorized users, and they all came with [...]
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The recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are claimed, by the popular literature, to place new burdens on American business. But wait! Rule 26(b)(2)(B) provides
(B) A party need not provide discovery of electronically stored information from sources that the party identifies as not reasonably accessible because of undue burden or cost. [...]
I’ve been using Google Mail for the last couple of years, but never realized that the system won’t let you send .EXE files as attachments. (The file in question was a Flash press release for legal tech.)
What to do? How about zipping the .EXE file. Turns out that doesn’t work, either because Google understands [...]
My copy of Office 2007 awaits action from the Waggener Edstrom Rapid Response Team — which is never rapid but is usually responsive — but in the morning mail arrives the first of the Office 2007 books: Excel 2007 - The Missing Manual. $39.95. ISBN 10:0-596-52759-4. The book, published by the O’Reilly folks, weighs in [...]
My first personal computer was an Apple ][ --- not one of those new fashioned //C or //e machines, or even a ][+, but a plain old ][. With 48K of RAM. So it is with considerable sadness that I note the renaming of Apple Computer, Inc., dropping the "Computer" part of the name. Although [...]
The latest silly unsolicited e-mail seems to be a phishing expedition that relies on presumably very gullible Credit Union members:
Dear Federal Credit Union account holder,
This is a part of our security service measures, we regularly screen activity [...]
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We’re just gearing up for MCLE (for MINIMUM rather than MANDATORY CLE ) although it is, clearly mandatory if you want to maintain your Illinois law license. So it is good news that an organization such as the Practising Law Institute has become an approved MCLE provider. In addition to many decades of traditional [...]
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