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 12, 2013 | Blog Entry, INTERNET, NERD NEWS, Technicals
from the back-in-the-shadows dept. Do you remember what you posted on that music forum in 2004? Or which services you tried for webmail before Gmail? We often forget online services, but they don’t forget us. PC Pro has investigated whether it’s possible...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 12, 2013 | Blog Entry
One of the biggest ongoing challenges for Linux advocates has always been that there is such a paucity of data available to demonstrate the preferences of the people who are actually using the free and open source operating system. That’s especially true on the...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 11, 2013 | LAW, POLITICAL
from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept. “House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) said Friday that they plan to re-introduce the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA)...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog Entry
Whether you need to learn a new skill or language to advance your career, or you just want to learn something new and broaden your horizons, lifelong learning is important. Still, picking up new things can be difficult, and the free Learning Creative Learning course...
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 | Blog Entry
Ever wish you could find out whether someone actually opened that email you sent, or whether they just ignored and trashed it? A service called Bananatag can tell you—but if you find that a little creepy, we’ve got the lowdown on how to protect yourself too. How...
by Joseph Forbes | Feb 10, 2013 | Malware Reports, NERD NEWS, SECURITY
from the something-to-be-said-for-consistency dept. Adobe has pushed out an emergency Flash update that solves two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0633 and CVE-2013-0634) that are being actively exploited to target Windows and OS X users, and is urging users to...
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 | Blog Entry
from the how-to-break-things dept. Packets of death. I started calling them that because that’s exactly what they are. … This customer location, for some reason or another, could predictably bring down the ethernet controller with voice traffic on their network....
