The Portable Consultant

One of my annoyances with the Lexar Lightning with PowerToGo was the lack of a free backup utility. With Lexar, it is a $10 USD download.
As a result, I hesitated to make the purchase… and now I’m sorry that I didn’t just consider that cost as part of the cost of the device!
Last week Lexar [...]

The Portable Consultant has been reading all the Christmas ads for PCs and noticing that the vast majority of desktops and notebooks are labelled “Vista Capable”… which means what, exactly?
What I had heard was that “Vista Premium Ready” means the unit will actually run Vista in all its glory while “Vista Capable” means it will [...]

Steve Gibson does a very thorough analysis (it’s so much more than a revew!) of MoJoPac in Episode #63 of the Security Now netcast (podcast!) with Leo Laporte.
We portable consultants might not find the current MoJoPac product useful, however, for two reasons:
1) We are usually assigned limited access on the Windows machines we’re given at [...]