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I'm not that old but it's crazy how much has changed since I was a kid. We had the original Gameboy and Sega Genesis growing up for my generation but to compare that to the prevalence of smartphones and tablets is astounding. The extra security concern with today's devices come from the fact that they are connected to the web. Viruses still spread by floppy disk before the … [Read more...]
Archives for 2013
AWS Cloudfront – a perfect CDN for small websites
Site speed matters to Google ranking and, more importantly, your visitor experience. In an effort to speed up my site, I decided I needed to get 404TS back onto a content delivery network. A CDN typically has the advantage of loading content from a different host name for parallel downloads as well as serving the content from geographically closer regions. It also decreases the … [Read more...]
How to send Ctrl+Alt+Del in Remote Desktop
Ctrl+Alt+Delete by default is always picked up by the local computer. Imagine if there was malware created that looked like the Windows login screen. If it could intercept the Ctrl+Alt+Delete signal, it would look very authentic and you might give your password away unknowingly. Instead, giving the 'Three Finger Salute' will launch the full screen where the user has options … [Read more...]
VoIP integration with help desk software
A good ticketing system is the life blood of many help desk departments. They keep individuals organized, customers satisfied, and managers on top of things. I'm not sure a perfect ticketing system exists, so my ears always perk up when I hear new or unfamiliar help desk software recommended. With a recent system that I was checking out recently, I was surprised to see VoIP … [Read more...]
Book Review and Giveaway: Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition by Michael W. Lucas
Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid, 2nd Edition by Michael W. Lucas is a stellar technical book. Writing a guide to an operating system can not be an easy task. It's a chore to weave between a textbook approach, explaining dry technical material, and conveying enough information to be useful. Somehow the author managed to write and, perhaps more importantly, … [Read more...]