A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
Today, I was helping someone setup their brand new Apple laptop. One of the recommendations I made was to turn off “Sharing Services”. This resulted in a blank stare, so I thought it would be valuable to describe how to accomplish this task. Note that my recommendation encompasses a large range of features, including, screen […]
Overall, I was impressed with the StarTech 10 Port L2 Managed Gigabit Ethernet Switch. In a compact rugged form, it had many of the features I would have expected from a much more expensive enterprise unit. And, these features could be easily configured via the included admin web interface or using the command line. For […]
While surfing today, I came across this article about showing a world map and the various successful confirmed attacks against the USA power grid. The media might have you believing that cyber terrorism is an important threat vector. Maybe in the future it will be, but according to this data, looks like squirrel attacks are […]
In the “Internet Options” menu item of Internet Explorer, you can add websites to particular zones. If you don’t manually do this, IE seems to allocate the websites for itself. Today, I was attempting to debug an issue, and I wondered “Does Internet Explorer understand this website is on its intranet”? For that matter, how […]
I often have to generate technical documents, and although I often use my standard templates, sometimes a customer provides me their preferred template. This happened last week, and I was surprised to see a warning message when I opened the Word template that had been provided. The warning read, “This document contains macros. Macros may […]
I have been traveling and was noticing that my Chrome browse was “acting up”. I used the “Clear Browsing Data…” menu option, but this did not resolve my issues. What could be happening? Well, upon googling (obviously with a browser that wasn’t Chrome), I figured out that Chrome caches DNS entries. And, that cache could […]
Today, I had a customer ask me which file service I would prefer he setup for data migration purposes. I responded with SAMBA or NFS, and he did not like this. He wanted a specific recommendation. The server I’m migrating data from is an older 2003 server, and we are trying to decide whether to […]
Yesterday, I got an email bounce back because I accidentally sent one of my friends and email to their old email address. The reason that happened is that OS X Mail auto-populates(aka auto-complete) the email address as you type. But, this particular friend has two emails: the legacy incorrect one and the shiny new correct […]
My new project is to update the course materials for an online course, originally setup in CourseSites, see www.coursesites.com. Last week, I was happily making online changes, including adding new quizzes and tests, and deleting old assignments and tests. But, this weekend, I looked at the Grading Center and was surprised by the large number […]
You are probably already aware of this announcement, but I thought it prudent to post anyway. Apparently, Juniper somehow released a vulnerable ScreenOS, versions 6.2.0r15 through 6.2.0r18 and 6.3.0r12 through 6.3.0r20. And, had now released a patch. Juniper claims the exploit has not been reported as exploited by customers. But, it’s unclear how customer would […]