Few people will think about their digital identity when they consider their public exposure. The purpose of this post is not to make you paranoid, but to make you aware of the information that is out there. As we saw recently with Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account getting broken into, one must fully understand and manage their digital identity for security … [Read more...]
My Brush with Blog Scraping
While many people have resigned that spam is just a fact of life--they will get it, it will fill their inboxes, they will waste valuable time each and every day deleting it--having someone steal your written words to make their spam look legitimate is much worse, much more personal, and nothing of which to resign yourself. The DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) is in place … [Read more...]
Happy SysAdmin Day! – Treat your IT right.
It seemed rather fitting that my 100th post would land on SysAdmin Appreciation Day. This is the day where you're intended to show your appreciation for all the hard work, skill, dedication, and time that your System Administrators put in every day to keep things up and running. This being my 100th post, I look forward to writing many more, helping you solve more problems, and … [Read more...]
PeerGuardian – Blocking out the bad guys
PeerGuardian is designed to block the IP addresses of those individuals that might want to do you harm and prevent you from accidentally or intentionally connecting to them or them to you. Advertisements, spyware, government, and education ranges as well as IP blocklists that typically contain those RIAA/MPAA trolls or MediaDefender folks. Even if you're doing nothing bad, it … [Read more...]
4 Computers for 1 person… You might have a problem.
People will often ask IT folks for their opinion regarding what brand they should go with when buying a home machine. This is like asking a car dealer what their opinion is of X model. There's a wide variety of cars to drive and opinions are probably equally varied. I think the better question, would be "What are you driving?" or for computers "What are you running at home?". … [Read more...]