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Techie Travels- What Do YOU Look for in a Hotel Room?

2008-07-08 04:05:00 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...hotel stays in the past few weeks, I started thinking about what makes a good hotel Recently I spent one week at a customer in a hotel where the staff obviously was hosting nightly parties down at my end of the hall- from about 2:00am - 5:30am each (yes- every) night I was there. The hotel Im in tonight has no elevator. Yeah. @#$! Thats what...
 
Tags: hotel, nice resort-hotels, nice, hotels, hotel stays, love, love lots, car, company car
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Kentucky Town-Fi; Exorbitant Hotel-Fi

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2008-07-15 11:06:22 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...hotel Wi-Fi pricing: The travel guru that is Joe Brancatelli turns a steely eye to $15 per night charges at fancy hotels for Internet access, noting that cheaper hotels include such service at no cost. The higher-end hotels won't talk for attribution, but they say that a "fraction" of guests use Internet, so why bundle it into the room rate?...
 
Tags: town, network, cost, wi-fi network cost, city-wide wi-fi network, kentucky town shaves, cheaper hotels include, internet, night
 
 
 
 
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My new favorite hotel chain - Hyatt Place

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2008-03-24 23:24:10 by HASH0x8b49350 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...hotel chain and try to stay there as much as possible. Whether it be Marriott or Hilton, Choice or Priority Club, Hyatt or Starwood, we all have a favorite that if available we will choose. Generally, I try to stay at reasonably priced hotels and don't stay at anthing over a Courtyard very often. However, I have a new favorite chan. Hyatt...
 
Tags: hyatt, favorite, hyatt gold, hotel chain, road warriors, favorite chan, stay, road, upscale decor
 
 
 
 
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Hotel's Dirty Drinks

2008-03-22 22:41:25 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
...hotels. And Im frequently drinking water. Its usually room-temperature tap water, so when I started noticing funny tastes and smells in hotel room glasses, it got me wondering exactly how they clean and replace those in-room glasses Over the past several weeks I took a mental survey of housekeeping carts. (I frequently sneak an extra shampoo...
 
Tags: dirty, glasses, in-room glasses, frequently sneak, frequently, link, carts, dirty drink, water
 
 
 
 
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My new favorite hotel chain - Hyatt Place

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2008-03-25 00:24:10 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...hotel chain and try to stay there as much as possible. Whether it be Marriott or Hilton, Choice or Priority Club, Hyatt or Starwood, we all have a favorite that if available we will choose. Generally, I try to stay at reasonably priced hotels and don't stay at anthing over a Courtyard very often. However, I have a new favorite chan. Hyatt...
 
Tags: hyatt, favorite, hyatt gold, hotel chain, road warriors, favorite chan, stay, road, upscale decor
 
 
 
 
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You Need An Address to Call 911

2007-08-23 09:23:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...hotel, and wandered through the surrounding neighborhood. I soon realized I would need a short cut back to the hotel in order to make it to work on time, and a set of train tracks looked like the perfect route to circumvent the winding streets It was perfect, on the other side of the tracks was the old highway (which I knew the hotel was on)...
 
Tags: tracks, train tracks, railroad tracks, rail road tracks, hotel, address, road, expensive car, imperfect information
 
 
 
 
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Secrets of a Road Warrior

2006-10-16 08:34:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...hotel room and opted to stay there instead of sitting on the freeway for what would have been a long, miserable drive back to Atlanta . There wasnt a bottle of water left on store shelves, so I decided Id be okay and just head back home in the morning I never expected that the storm would be strong enough to do any damage as far inland as...
 
Tags: home, home tuesday night, head home, call home, road warrior, tuesday, road, night, home friday night
 
 
 
 
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Two years ago today, Blue Box podcast #1 was launched

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2007-10-27 14:32:48 by HASH0x84724b8 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
...hotel WiFi at the hotel I am staying at in New York City just wasn't up to giving us the quality recording that we wanted to have via Skype. Here's a taste of what we were experiencing If I read that right, we were getting a 32% packet loss... even if it was really 9%, it was still a lot. The roundtrip was much higher sometimes... up near...
 
Tags: blue box podcast, blue box, hotel wifi, hotel, voip security, poor connectivity, skype, connectivity, strange trip
 
 
 
 
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Myrcurial gets placed in the Leaders Quadrant - Gartner Days 1&2

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2008-06-03 14:23:04 by Myrcurial in Liquidmatrix Security Digest
...Hotel Std. Bring Pepto Product Highlight - Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop Laptop Guardian Its a way to lojack your laptops - a device that stores your crypto keys, 2nd factor auth token, acts as your 3G WWAN, GPS enabled, has an on-board Linux which acts as the IT department controlled/controllable machine. Main feature - remote kill...
 
Tags: security, gartner, security blogger, security conferences, security architecture, security summit, gartner analysts, food, commercial grade food
 
 
 
 
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Lost laptop = Lost data!

2007-08-18 08:28:15 by RaviC in Musings on Information Security