There are a large number of firewall and security appliances on the market, some good some awful. I tend to use a lot of Cisco security products. With the current supply chain problems in getting hold of Cisco products I have been looking around the market. I have noticed that a number of products are
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Date: June 2010 08:15:14 PM Category: IT Solutions
Growing up in the 1980’s as a teenager I was exposed to new exciting developments of the Micro Computer. These were machines which plug into the home television and you can play games and experiment and learn. I had a commodore 64 on which I taught myself 6502 machine code at the age of 14.
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Date: June 2010 09:16:03 AM Category: General
The man in the white suit is a comedy film made in the 1950’s about an eager scientist that creates a revolutionary product to help mankind. He observes the poor trying to keep themselves clothed and clean. The older washer women struggling to clean clothes, so he decides to fix the problem. He decides to
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Date: May 2010 01:53:43 PM Category: Open Source
I have been an keen advocate of open source software and Linux in particular since discovering it back in early 2000, and the power it gave me to manage network environments. Network engineering is more core skill, and I discovered Linux and a myriad of network management tools whilst working for a cash strapped automotive
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Date: March 2010 12:02:15 AM Category: Open Source
Pictured below are the people involved in creating and developing Ubuntu Linux. This is just before version 9.10 was launched. if you have not tried Linux before. I recommend you give Ubuntu Linux a try. Many thanks for all your hard work guys.
Date: December 2009 04:48:28 PM Category: General
If you read my article on ” What is Applied Information Technology” you will see that I take the view that the use of technology in business should create strong benefits, otherwise technology becomes a burden. You should be able to see a direct business benefit in the operation of your business, and also your
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Date: December 2009 07:19:39 PM Category: General
Caveat emptor ( buyer beware) , server hosting plans are not always as first described.
Date: June 2009 05:20:15 PM Category: General
A rather dangerous security flaw which can cause major havoc on the ability to deliver internet services has been discovered. A team of security researchers have discovered a security flaw in the protocol called TCP.
Date: October 2008 08:06:05 PM Category: IT News
The New York Stock Exchange depends on Red Hat Linux to perform. They use Linux for trading systems and they purchase support from Redhat. Key fetures looked for are: Speed Reliability Cost Flexibility
Date: October 2008 12:03:23 AM Category: Open Source
The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo.
Date: September 2008 11:12:37 AM Category: Humor
I have recently come across a very promising ecommerce product called Magento. The current version is 1.14. At the time of writing this post, Magento is just over 1 year old. It is still a very young product and show’s great promise. It is designed using current PHP coding standards, and is based around the
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Date: September 2008 08:37:28 PM Category: Open Source
When you boot from a Ubuntu Live CD, you do not get access to your LVM volumes. LVM is a storage arrangement which allows you to create a file system across multiple discs. For example If you have 2 500GB discs, You can make a file system 1TB in size… Be aware that without a
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Date: September 2008 07:54:32 PM Category: IT Solutions
Over the past few months quite a my friends and associates have been complaining about the latest windows operating system, Windows Vista. The complaints range from the fact that they perceive windows vista to be slow, or certain hardware devices or programs have stopped working since installing Vista. Some problems have been so hard to
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Date: July 2008 09:00:50 AM Category: General
Data protection Stupidty. I’m getting quite worried about the amount of news items that I have seen recently which highlight security breaches due to laptop theft or missing CD’s in the post. One of the most public is the HMRC data of 25 million records on non-encrypted media. A number of security experts have mentioned
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Date: July 2008 09:00:42 AM Category: IT Solutions
I have been working with CISCO networking equipment for over 10 years. Over the years they have created a very strong brand dominance. This is then fed by the fact that most corporations will only insist on using CISCO network equipment within networks. However over the years CISCO’s competition has improved product offerings immensely, and
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Date: June 2008 04:24:03 PM Category: Networking