Computer Corner

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.

Passwords continue to be one of the most irritating things in life and one of the biggest obstacles to doing many things online.

Stuck at home for the last six months by quarantines and travel restrictions, I think many of us have done...

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.

Some companies choose to minimize their expenses associated with providing customer service by making it impossible to reach them.

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.

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.