by wwarren | Sep 21, 2012 | Microsoft, Security, Windows, Windows 8
Without turning off the built in A/V..:) The Windows hosts file offers a great way of blocking or redirecting certain Internet hosts. I’m for instance using it whenever I move websites to a new hosting company to check the life site before the DNS has fully...
by wwarren | Sep 19, 2012 | Apple, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Internet, Microsoft, Tablets, Windows, Windows 8
If Microsoft really plans to get into the mobile space(and Win8 is all about tablets) this is not the way to do it. $600 bucks for a tablet isn’t going to fly when Andriod and Ipads are already established with superior featuresets already. For a while...
by wwarren | Sep 12, 2012 | Apple, Cloud Computing, Hardware, Internet, Microsoft, Smartphone
So Iphone is stil behind the competition in many ways. Plus you get locked into doing it Apple’s way or no way. No thanks. pricing is ok abut I can get my nexus for $99 and an s3 for less than 200 both with features not found in ithingies. Apple is no longer...
by wwarren | Sep 11, 2012 | Hardware
With Apple now trying to sue it’s competitors out of business Apple is having to play catch up to many Android competitors. let’s hope the Iphone 5 is a truly game changer…i’m not so sure. I’ll post my opinions once i’ve seen the...
by wwarren | Sep 3, 2012 | Open Source
There’s CLEAR prior art and the fact that the jury said they skipped it says this judgement is nullified or thrown out due to misconduct. this ruling needs to be dismissed and the patents invalided immediately. Apple likes to claim it is an...
by wwarren | Sep 3, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Security
Discussing the high profile compromise of an online journalist and how to protect yourself. However it doesn’t address the underlying insecurity of the public cloud. one thing that still holds true…if you are going to use the cloud..make sure you have a...
by wwarren | Aug 30, 2012 | Cloud Computing, Linux, Open Source
How To Install VMWare Tools v4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server – Ghost Tx.
by wwarren | Aug 29, 2012 | Security, Security Alerts
Adobe is slowly killing flash as HTML 5 takes over. Flash with it’s myriad of security issues needs to go. Java on the other hand has been so thoroughly breached that if you don’t know for sure you need to run it you need to remove it…now. There...
by wwarren | Aug 28, 2012 | Open Source
SBS was a good idea with SBS 2003. with 2008 they began doing the Microsoft thing and jacking the price up. SBS 2011 was such a huge, bloated, overpriced mess that very few wanted it. What does this mean? I have much cheaper and even free ways to do what SBS...
by wwarren | Aug 28, 2012 | Cloud Computing
What was interesting is the CEO who announced this horrid pricing was a former Microsoftie so I can’t say the announcement was surprising in that regard. To borrow from another blogger…vmware thought they had more leverage over their client base than they...
