Computer Service / Network Integration / Performance Tuning
TweetIn the last two months, the world as we know it has changed. A LOT. With millions of people under lockdown or shelter-in-place orders, a lot of things have changed. Not the least of which was a burning need to hoard, or all things… TOILET PAPER What the hell, people? Seriously, if you need 200+ Continue Reading
TweetWe travel a lot. We have visited 20+ countries and counting. We like cruise ships because we don’t have to pack and unpack every day and schlep a half ton (seems like it anyway) of luggage up and down stairs, narrow hallways, cobblestone streets every.single.day. Because we’ve done exactly this. A LOT. But on a Continue Reading
Tweet Are you still using Windows 7? It may be time to change By now most of you are aware Microsoft is dropping support for Windows 7 at the middle of January. January 14th, to be precise. What does this mean to you? Well… It means no more patches or security updates Does this Continue Reading
Tweet Evite Data Breach Identity Theft Security Alert Do you use Evite? Well if you do, you need to be very sure the password for Evite is not used anywhere else. Oh, you use the same password for everything? Well, Bubba, it’s time to rectify that quick fast like a bunny. Why? Because — Continue Reading
TweetA long time ago and far far away… At the dawn of the Internet there was InterNic The godfather of domain name registration When I first began coding websites in 1995, InterNic was the only domain name registrar on the planet. They were competent. You could reach someone who knew their job and they were Continue Reading
TweetI subscribe to a service that lets me know when my personal info is compromised. And I have some bad news for you. If you thought you were safe – odds are you’re not. The latest data breach was epic. The data compromised could trigger an identity theft problem for you and everyone else you Continue Reading
TweetJust as a PSA I am publishing a more or less complete list of IP addresses I found attempting a Terminal Services access to one of my client’s servers. This is a remotely hosted Windows 2008 R2 server It was being slammed by remote access failed logins (one day I documented 40,000 failed logins in Continue Reading
TweetThere’s a new scam every fifteen seconds Or at least that’s the way it seems. I have recently become far more proactive about blacklisting IP addresses that overload my inbox with scams. You know the ones: From: <your email address> Subject: Security Notice. Someone have access to your system Body: Hi! As you may have Continue Reading
Tweet Network Installations Should be CLEAN – and NEAT I’ve been doing large scale wiring projects for almost 50 years. My first introduction to precision wiring was in my first year college Electronics Fabrication classes. Our instructor was a stickler for precision. If your project didn’t look like the inside of a Tektronix Oscilloscope it Continue Reading
