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SSD care and maintenance tips

There are several things folks have "burned" into their mind about hard drive maintenance that no longer apply to SSD drives.  There are also several major considerations when it comes to data security that are different between SSD drives and Hard Drives. The first...

HIPAA data security compliance.

MOST entities that are required to comply with HIPAA are not because of a ton of confusion.  After much research I have found a nutshell article that explains HIPAA compliance for data security.  It codifies in US Federal Law what best practices have been for a long...

AMD Missteps With Their New Video Cards

This is the main reason I read so many sites every day.  Issues like I am about to highly elaborate on is why I do not post much when news breaks because the devil is in the details and those never come out when things first break. Many hardware sites simply do not do...

Partner Spotlight: Curley Marketing

Lori Curley of Curley Marketing is one of the most dynamic web designers I have had the pleasure of working with.  Lori not only redesigned the ETC Maryland website but she does something not many WordPress designers do:  Every site has its own style.  Templates are...

How NOT to handle a potential security issue

WHMCS has gone from simply being unhelpful to being in denial.  This, unfortunately, is typical for companies today.  I have been digging into this problem since it first cropped up as i noted in my previous post.  Now WHMCS has gone from telling me it is on my end to...

ETC Maryland Hosting Upgrades to IPV6.

Due to the tremendous amounts of addresses afforded by the IPV6 standard, ETC Maryland's data center provider has given ETC Maryland a large block of IPV6 addresses.  With the current generation of IPV4 addresses now nearly gone, IPV6 is the new standard for giving...

Itunes Music Theft of Local Files Continues

Last July I talked about how Apple Music will steal your files from you when Apple decides it has them in its own cloud and then you have to pay to listen to those files.  Now another person has been told this is by design by Apple itself.  Backup, backup, backup....

Apple abandons Quicktime.

It is about time as Quicktime has been slowly dying as even Apple has been shifting to HTML5 and mp4 based videos. If you have this software on your machine it is time to remove it. If you are offered it decline it as it will now be a major entry point for all kinds...

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