by wwarren | Mar 19, 2011 | Blackberry, Hardware, Smartphone
I had a Deacon at my church today ask me about getting audio streams from emergency scanners onto his phone. I said no problem and that I would take a look at it. I fired up blackberry app world. After I had the Deacon enter his password it asked for permission to...
by wwarren | Mar 18, 2011 | Microsoft, Security, Windows
Rustock is apparently severely crippled if not dead. I noticed at least a 30% drop in spam volumes across the networks I manage. I began looking at feeds, checking other security sites and the rumor was Rustock had been taken down by a concerted effort similar to...
by wwarren | Mar 18, 2011 | Microsoft, Office, Office 15, Server 2008, Server 8, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8
As the software landscape changes and so does technology so does my recommendations for clients. The biggest one right now is do you buy windows 7/server 2008 now or wait? ECC is saying to wait unless you absolutely MUST upgrade now. Why? 2012-2013 Windows 8,...
by wwarren | Mar 17, 2011 | Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Security
Unix admins have known this for a long time. There is only one way to reliably clean ANY infected machine…wipe and reload. For a long time, the best-practices approach to malware infections has been to re-format and re-image the infected machine from...
by wwarren | Mar 15, 2011 | Hardware, Microsoft
Microsoft has a loooong history of partnering with companies only to undercut them..IBM and OS/2(which MS morphed into NT, then 2k, XP, Vista, Windows 7, *..etc etc etc) Novell(which they used to develop Active Directory then cut the legs form under Novell).etc etc....
