My wife and I have been talking about how to best dispose of our garbage. She would really like to compost and has been asking me for months to set up a compost pile. She keeps telling me that the compost would be good for our garden. We don’t have a garbage disposal: and I tell her that I’d rather just get a garbage disposal. Composting sounds like a lot of work, and I don’t feel like doing the work. She tells me that garbage disposals are bad for septic systems, but I know lots of people with septic systems have garbage disposals!
I was reading an article on the Slate.com news website that discusses whether people should use garbage disposals or just put their garbage in the trash to be hauled to a landfill. The article assumes that no one has a septic system, and it recommends compost piles as the first and best choice, the garbage disposal as the second best choice, and putting garbage in the trash to be hauled to the landfill as the worst choice. I wish the article had addressed septic systems!
One of the things that I’ve always been a little bit concerned about with these flash drives is how secure could they be? They are so very small it is easy to lose them, and it could be very easy for some unscrupulous character to “palm” them and take off without you even knowing it! Well, leave it to Kanguru Solutions to come up with a Security system they call the Kanguru Remote Management Console that allows the owner to access (and block) the Kanguru brand of flash drives, the Kanguru Defender, Kanguru Defender Pro and Kanguru Bio AES drives remotely! What will they think of next? This is SO Futuristic!
With this new system, if one of the Kanguru flash drives goes “missing” it can be remotely deleted! That prevents the data from being accessed by unauthorized users. This puts me in mind of the old “Mission Impossible” television show where the tape automatically self destructs!
If the flash drive user forgets their password, the administrator can reset the password remotely. The drives can be set to lock out users or delete themselves if the drive does not connect to the authorized server within a prechosen time period. What great security measures!
I was amazed the first time I saw a USB flash drive. My kids call them “thumb drives.” The first one we bought didn’t have much memory (I think it was 128) and was really expensive, but it was a convenient way to move files from one place to another. The next one we bought was four times the storage size (512), but the same big price. A couple of months ago we found a USB flash drive for sale that was a the same price as the other ones we had bought a couple of years ago, but it had whopping 8GB storage! It’s incredible how technology advances so fast!
