When it comes to technology, it can often be difficult to discern actual technical improvements and marketing gimmicks. The ASUS Republic Of Gamers line gives an under-the-hood look at their Ethernet jack to show one way they have made technical improvements for gamers. ASUS calls their improvement of the RJ-45 jack LANGuard. They have improved the throughput using … [Read more...]
Tech and the World Cup: ESPN’s hardware and Google Street View
The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil starts on June 12th and runs through July 13th. On Twitter, @AlexiLalas points out a single point of failure for ESPN's coverage of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Hopefully they have redundancy, it's just difficult to explain in 140 characters. "This is the piece of equipment that if unplugged would shut down the entire @ESPN #WorldCup Brazil … [Read more...]
Using the Registry to control the position of icons on the Windows Desktop
While working on the mandatory profiles for a new Windows 8.1 lab, I built the profile on a virtual machine with a different resolution than the physical machine. This resulted in the icons being reset to the default (all along the left side) when the profile loaded on the physical labs with their native resolution. With icon position being a per-user setting, I knew I could … [Read more...]
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware update prompts for Administrator
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware recently released version 2.00.2.1012. When MBAM prompted that it need to install a program update, I told it to install the update but received an error message in return. "Please login as an administrator to install the new version of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware." I was logged in as a local administrator and Malwarebytes was running from its … [Read more...]
McAfee writes about Operation Tovar, taking a swipe at CryptoLocker and Gameover Zeus
We previously wrote about CryptoLocker, the trojan that encrypts your files and then holds the decryption key ransom, over six months ago. It and many variants have continued to harass and charge individuals and organizations. For those victims, McAfee made an exciting announcement yesterday. Law enforcement and the private sector, including McAfee, cooperated to dismantle the … [Read more...]