No more VRAM: VMware abandons controversial pricing model | Ars Technica
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...
View ArticleHow To Install VMWare Tools v4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server – Ghost Tx
How To Install VMWare Tools v4 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Server – Ghost Tx.
View Article(the dangers of the public cloud)This Week in Enterprise Tech 8 | TWiT.TV
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...
View ArticleiPhone 5 – Meh
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...
View ArticleWindows New Tablet System Could be a Vista..Only Worse
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...
View ArticleMicrosoft Bloat in Mobile shows itself: Microsoft Surface can not compete...
Microsoft Surface can not compete against real tablet | SemiAccurate.
View ArticleDangerous Minds | FACEBOOK: I WANT MY FRIENDS BACK
I have a Facebook page i help admin and I’ve noticed the stats in all areas cratering. I never could figure it out until I saw the “promote” “feature”. I then knew what this was….yet another backdoor...
View ArticleThe Cloud(and by Extension BYOD) Increase the Risk to Businesses.
Many folks cringe at IT having tight control…but then when users in organizations start tossing things into the cloud they then expect IT to bail them out. That’s an impossible place and I’ve seen...
View ArticleDon’t Allow Direct Internet Access to Your Network.
Folks…a firewall isn’t enough. You should not even leave the ports open for these devices. the only way to have a remote chance of doing this safely is to use a vpn so your connection is encrypted...
View ArticleThe Broken Philosophies of Third Party Digital Certificates and How They Put...
This has been a long standing procedure. If you are online and what to have an online identity certificate that identifies you you have been required to go to various third parties(Verisign, GoDaddy...
View ArticleA Truly False Sense of Online Security. SSL is Done(At Least Third Party...
I have said over and over third party trust on security certificates is stupid. I’ve never really been able to articulate in a simple way why it is stupid. Read below and Karl articulates this...
View ArticleHOw Insecure are Smartphones?
Alli can say is READ THE ENTIRE LINKED ARTICLE then come here for the link to part 1 of the talk. I am providing links to part 1 and part 2 below. Part 1: The militarization of the Internet part 2:...
View ArticleNSA’s ANT Division Catalog of Exploits for Nearly Every Major...
All I can say is wow. NSA’s ANT Division Catalog of Exploits for Nearly Every Major Software/Hardware/Firmware | LeakSource.
View ArticleStarbucks is an open door to your bank account.
There’s not much more to say. If you have the Starbucks app on your phone get it off of there and don’t put it back on. Starbucks has a lazy attitude towards security and it appears they aren’t going...
View ArticleMIcrosoft Office365=fail
Being a Microsoft partner when i saw they were giving MAPS subscribers their top of the line Office365 package I thought this would be great. I was met with several challenges right off the bat:...
View ArticleBizarre attack infects Linksys routers with self-replicating malware | Ars...
The hits to Linksys(now Belkin) routers keep coming. It’s really gotten to the point I can’t recommend these any longer. Might be time for a spike in Sophos UTM home installations? Bizarre attack...
View ArticleCloud Computing Essay (outline)
I’ve finally have items organized in my head. This is an outline for my cloud computing essay. Here is my outline for now. How cloud computing is presented: 1. Marketing usually presents cloud...
View ArticleStill Think the Cloud is Secure? Icloud is Even Wrose
I have an entire section of this blog devoted to the cloud. I has gotten so bad it’s impossible to post quickly enough to keep up. Icloud as soon as it launched I figured was going to be a disaster,...
View ArticleThin is Getting Stupid
Semiaccurate.com has it right with the race to the thinnest device. I’m noticing increased thermal issues with my mega..that were not present with my nexus. The race to thin has passed it point of...
View ArticleApple could be really screwed if this deal is completed.
If Samsung buys the company behind Siri Apple is going to either loose Siri altogether or will be paying some serious licensing rights to Samsung. Unbeknownst to many, Apple does not own the...
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