by Joseph Forbes | Feb 13, 2013 | Blog Entry, HARDWARE, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
Ekahau offers most comprehensive set of Wi-Fi site survey features in three-product test Network World – In the early days of Wi-Fi, site surveys were fairly basic and involved running around with a laptop looking at simple signal levels. The next step was...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | SECURITY, Technical Support
Microsoft says that, next Tuesday, it will be issuing 12 security bulletins that fix 57 vulnerabilities. Five of the bulletins are classified as critical and they affect Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Exchange Server 2007 and 2010. Microsoft’s Windows 8...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | INTERNET, NERD NEWS, SECURITY, Technical Support, Technicals
from the there’s-a-sauce-for-that dept. Microsoft is advising users to stick with other browsers until Tuesday, when 57 patches for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, and even 10 are scheduled. There is no word if this patch is to protect IE from the 50+ Java...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | NERD NEWS, Technical Support, Technicals
from the the-nineties-never-left dept. FreeDOS — the drop-in, open source replacement for MS-DOS — was started after Microsoft announced that starting from Windows 95, DOS would play a background role at best for users. Almost two decades later, FreeDOS has survived...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 9, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, Technical Support, Technicals
Imagine this: you’re busy working on your computer and need to access documents saved on your external hard drive. You connect it, get ready to find your data, and…nothing happens. Your hard drive isn’t working. Uh oh. Before you panic, there are...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 6, 2013 | HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, Technical Support
from the next-month-back-in-the-old-dorm-room dept. Dell is going private again, as the result of a $24.4 billion deal involving private-equity investors and Microsoft. The deal will close before the end of the second quarter of Dell’s fiscal 2014, according to...