My dog ate it. Of all the excuses one could make for not responding to a message, we now have a new one: My “Do Not Disturb” was stuck on! In my analog past, the worst that could happen in a “Do Not Disturb” situation would be Hotel Housekeeping not cleaning […]
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If you haven’t started migrating your Windows XP installations to Windows 7, you are running out of time…
Peering is the physical interconnection of separate networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network. Immediately after Hurricane Sandy, we noticed massive packet loss between Verizon and Comcast. The most obvious example is loss of VPN and Remote Desktop connectivity between Verizon and Comcast sites. […]
This morning I awoke to my computer complaining that it couldn’t find a bootable volume. Evidently it had rebooted itself. Oh no! Dusted out the case interior and booted right up. About an hour later, same thing, restarted itself then no bootable volume. I didn’t see it happen and there […]
In an earlier post, we discussed a problem that affected our Outlook 2010 clients that connect to an Exchange 2007 server running on SBS 2008. After KB2553248 was installed on domain workstations, Outlook upon prompted for a smart card on Windows 7, and a displayed password dialog box on Windows […]
Want to know how strong your password is? Steve Gibson’s Interactive Brute Force Password Search Space Calculator shows how dramatically the time-to-crack lengthens with every additional character in your password, especially if one of them is a symbol rather than a letter or number. Worst-case scenario with almost unlimited computing […]