by wwarren | Aug 2, 2025 | Security
I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker on the Be The Hummingbird podcast. Laura is a certified financial planner out of Walkersville, MD. We talked about some real basic steps you can take to protect yourself…and not simply trusting in technology to...
by wwarren | May 4, 2025 | Annoucements
Christian Gamers Alliance I have been affiliated with this group for a long time over the years. It’s run by one man on his own and survives by the grace of the community. I got called back in after a hiatus as the previous hoster went offline in terms of...
by wwarren | Apr 27, 2025 | Brave, Browsers
I have been looking deeper into Mozilla lately and not liking what i am finding. For the past few months I have been using Brave since Brave has privacy as it’s primary focus. It’s not perfect and there are some tweaks to be made to make it even better,...
by wwarren | Apr 24, 2025 | Security, Security Alerts
With a recent security update Microsoft a folder called Inetpub. This folder is normally for the Microsoft Internet Information Services web server. I immediately thought this was a bad idea and i went about removing said folder on all of my office systems. ...
by wwarren | Apr 2, 2025 | Government Regulations
Maryland has passed the sales tax on IT services. Of course, they are not thinking that IT is easily moved out of state. Every facet of my business is impacted by this. It is not “only” a 3 percent tax. There are additional compliance costs as well. I am...
by wwarren | Mar 9, 2025 | IOT, Security
Many cameras require open ports for remote access.and also run outdated operating systems that are ripe for takeover. This article points out this attack leveraged Linux…Linux itself isn’t the issue, the lack of security updates AND the fact the cameras...
by wwarren | Feb 24, 2025 | Annoucements
PFSense is becoming closed source as announced by Netgate. IXSystems has take TrueNAS to Linux with Scale away from its BSD roots. While OPNSense is a BSD based firewall and often completes with PFSense they are based in Europe and do nto have 24 hour tech support. ...
by wwarren | Feb 2, 2025 | Hardware
Earlier I made this post about my initial thoughts on t he s25 series of phones but most pointedly the S25 Ultra. After seeing JerryRigEverything’s video about the even greater downgrades given to the S25 if you have a S Series that’s the s23 or the S24 I...
by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting, Linux, Open Source
For the first 10 years of my hosting service I have used Ubuntu Server LTS. Ubuntu has become quite bloated and the amount of time I spent turning off cruft in the background has gotten to be on par with Windows. With RedHat now being totally a paid for product that...
by wwarren | Feb 1, 2025 | Annoucements, Hosting
ETC Maryland would like to announce a further expansion of our hosting products. With our new datacenter partners, new opportunities have presented themselves and we would like to pass these opportunities to the general public. We would like to announce the...
