A client reported to me that their internet connection seemed to work okay for email and web surfing, but not so for their television when they tried to stream Netflix.
Category: <span>Computer Corner</span>
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Make your Favorite Password More Secure
Passwords continue to be one of the most irritating things in life and one of the biggest obstacles to doing many things online.
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Guru Maps
Stuck at home for the last six months by quarantines and travel restrictions, I think many of us have done at least some armchair traveling. This week I want to discuss what has become my absolute favorite mapping app for smartphones and tablets. For years my favorite mapping app has been Guru Maps, previously Galileo,...
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The Computer Corner: Network Latency
Please forgive me, but I, like many other network techs, tend to roll my eyes when people talk about the speed of their internet service.
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Remember your Password, You Don’t Want to Ask D Jones for Help if You Don’t
Some companies choose to minimize their expenses associated with providing customer service by making it impossible to reach them.
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Be in Control of your Computer
Computers today are incredibly noisy! Another way of putting that is to say vendors are incredibly nosy. The noise to which I refer is not of the audible kind emanating from the fan, but the nosy communications that quite literally everything in your computer carries on without you, the user, seeing or hearing anything.
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Too Many Calls Home?
It is doubtful that there is anyone reading this who does not remember Steven Spielberg’s iconic cinema moment “E.T., phone home.” That was three decades ago, and today it is “PC, phone home.”
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Regular Updating is the Key
As I sit down to write this column, I have just finished reading a 30-page report entitled “Of Black Swans, Platypii And Bunyips. The outlier and normal incident in risk management.” This whitepaper, published in 2010 by the SANS Institute, examines trends in computer malware infecting Mac and PC systems. Researching and reading are much of what I have to do in my profession.
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Is Your Hard Drive the Biggest and Fastest?
I imagine a scene that could have taken place in some corporate boardroom of a company that manufactures hard disks. Present at the meeting were the CEO of the company, head of the marketing department, and an engineer. The exchange could have gone something like this:
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
The email message I received read: “I got a message from somewhere and I think it said something about how I have to sign up with Windows or somebody so Google can download my iPad to Facebook in the cloud. What should I do?”