The last Friday in July is reserved to be SysAdmin Appreciation Day. So to all IT professionals out there, Happy SysAdmin Day for 2012! With Black Hat/DEFCON conferences going on this week and all SysAdmins nervously watching for patches along with the Olympics starting today, the event almost slid by without notice. Of course, the SysAdmin Day website was working to keep the … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2012
Tech and the London 2012 Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympics only happen every 4 years, so it makes a good metric of technology when you think back to the different venues we have used before to watch the Games and keep up with the results. This year, the Olympics get caught up with our app-centric way of life, streaming video, Twitter, and the web. The Olympics still have a lot to offer on our TVs but have also … [Read more...]
“Bandwidth flows like water” in Kansas City with Google Fiber
Are you ready for Google the cable company? Kansas City was the chosen community to work with Google to integrate gigabit speed broadband access by running fiber throughout the city. Today, the company announced their residential plans for both gigabit internet and TV service. … [Read more...]
Windows 8 reimagines printing
Microsoft's printing team shed some light on their reimagined vision of printing in Windows 8. The printer driver architecture has been updated to version 4 while Windows 8 retains compatibility with version 3, the architecture used from Windows 2000 to Windows 7. Of course, part of the update has to be to support printing from Metro style apps and printing from Windows RT. … [Read more...]
Google will live stream Google Fiber announcement 11AM Central Time
The Google Fiber site has been updated to a Save the Date announcement for at least the past week. Tomorrow the announcement will be known and hopefully we will see some more details on Google's project to deliver high-speed broadband access to Kansas City, Kansas. For those that may not remember, Kansas City was finally chosen after a long deliberation period by Google with … [Read more...]