In my high school computer classes, the teacher would have research and write a paper on the history of the Internet for the first day of classes. I took enough computer classes, that I have the highlights of that story well memorized. Reading Where Wizards Stay Up Late - The Origins of the Internet by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon took me back to writing those 2 page … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2015
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware 2.1.4 brings new UI redesign
Malwarebyte Anti-Malware has landed and is now rolling out as an update. The biggest change with this version is the user interface redesign. We summarized much of the criticism and shared mock-up photos of the coming redesign back in October. While the UI redesign was originally aiming for a December release, it appears the delay was worth it to provide a refined … [Read more...]
phpBB outlines release and support plan
Earlier this month, popular forum software phpBB announced its plan for future releases and support. phpBB 3.1.0 was released in November 2014 and gave an injection of modern web app development to the software. While it has some growing pains (the end of mods and the introduction of extensions), the developers seem to be focusing on the sustainability of the software more than … [Read more...]
Amazon enhances Fire TV and Fire TV Stick with free over-the-air update
Amazon's Fire TV and Fire TV Stick faces the same competition as other set-top boxes, Smart TVs, and other smart devices. They can accomplish their task of providing entertainment on the big screen despite their various form factors but it still comes down to one thing... content. Amazon's Fire TV and Fire TV Stick are most beneficial to Amazon Prime members that take advantage … [Read more...]
PowerShell script to ping multiple computers
A recent project involved tracking down some old computers. To find them, we only had the computer name to start. We came up with a plan to try to find out more information about the computers by accessing the hidden C$ share on the computers. This quickly became time-consuming and frustrating as many of the computers were not even pingable, as they were most likely not powered … [Read more...]