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The BITS team provides the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University with IT services. From desktop support to software development we aide the research at Biodesign by making sure computing and data needs are satisfied. This blog is a way to broadcast information that may benefit researchers and administrative staff. If you have any questions or recommendations for future posts please let us know.
Protecting Data on USB Thumb Drives
Posted by Cary Gielniak on April 30th, 2010 filed in Announcements
It’s very easy to transport data today thanks to USB thumb drives. In a package not much larger than a stick of gum, you can carry around 16 Gb of data. 16 gigabytes! That’s incredible. That amounts to approximately 16 hours of standard definition television or 1 hour and 52 minutes [...]
Other Recent Posts
Recent SSL certificate errors in Firefox, Safari, and Chrome
Posted: January 13th, 2010
Our websites that use ‘https’ depend on SSL certificates to create a secure connection from users browser to host server. In December of 2009, the SSL certificate provider that Biodesign utilizes, ipsCA (http://certs.ipsca.org), announced that everyone using their certificates ...
Digital media formats and what they mean to you
Posted: November 18th, 2009
Obviously the future of audio and video media is electronic formatting. The days of CD’s and DVD’s will most likely morph into a world with almost no “touchable” media. As this occurs, electronic media format control has fallen into the ...
Snow Leopard – Mac OS X (10.6)
Posted: September 1st, 2009
The latest release of Apple Inc's Mac OS X operating system, Snow Leopard, is now available. Biodesign IT Services (BITS) can assist with the upgrade of your Apple Intel based desktop or laptop currently running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) ...
Connecting to Biodesign servers from home
Posted: June 17th, 2009
How-to: Access the Biodesign Institute file share server
(peptide.biodesign.asu.edu) from an off-campus location
BITS email: bits-q@asu.edu Page 1 of 3 Latest Revision: 6/15/09
Before using the Biodesign Institute Peptide file server, please be sure to read the
confidentiality statement and mandatory computer security requirements ...
The ‘Conficker’ worm – Has your PC taken the bait?
Posted: March 30th, 2009
The newest “major” threat to internet security – and most reported- is the “Conficker” worm. This worm, which infects an estimated 10 million computers and gathers personal information about the computer’s users (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker), is set to undergo a change in ...