It’s important for all workstations and servers to agree what time it is. There’s a long list of reasons for this, including log file synchronization, and avoiding the inevitable end-user complaints when their computer’s time does not match their phone’s time. Unfortunately, when I recently set up a LAN with a number of Windows Server…
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Point-and-shoot cameras are dying. Whether they die off completely or remain on protracted life support is the only thing left to question. And it’s not surprising, because most people simply need the ability to snap quick shots of family and friends. If they already own a smartphone, there’s no reason to carry two devices. Now…
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If you’re familiar with the evolution of personal computers over the past three decades, then it could be easy to take for granted the menu bar in Apple’s OS X operating system (OS). When sitting in front of a Mac, the menu bar is right there, at the top of the screen, where it’s always…
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It didn’t have to be this way. Digital video recorders (DVRs) were supposed to give us complete control of our television viewing. I got my first DVR (ReplayTV…ah, what a blast from the past) 13 years ago, and it was indeed a nice improvement over the video cassette recorder (VCR). But instead of mastering our…
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A few weeks ago, David K. Sutton posted his thoughts on passwords on this blog, and since I had coincidentally just finished trying to hack a password around that same time, I thought I might add and/or elaborate a little on what he said, and offer some real world context and numbers. WORKPLACE CRACK Someone…
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The ever ubiquitous GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), developed in 1987, is a computer graphics specification that has lived a long and fruitful life. From an hour-long download to obtain a single GIF image back in the pre-World-Wide-Web Bulletin Board System (BBS) days, to animated GIF memes spread by social media, the format has a long…
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Remember Novell? Remember NDS or eDirectory as it later became known? NDS might be mostly dead, in favor of AD (Active Directory), but NDS did have many advantages over AD, and one of them was the ability to assign rights (permissions) via OU membership. Want to give users in a specific OU access to a…
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This post is aimed at home users, but the ideas are sound for business as well. If you’re like me, you’ve reached a point where most of your must-have information and data is in digital form. Whether its photos, music (commercial or self-created), financial records or documents, all my important data is virtual. That is,…
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