I talked about running a firewall on Friday. Today, I find this article on ZDnet:
Why you must install a firewall NOW
Yes, once again, you heard it here first!
Life of a one-man IT Department, beating major media sources on a regular basis, and by that, of course, I mean it happened at least once.. 🙂
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Kevin is working on a year-end podcast. He has an assignment: Since this will be my last podcast before Christmas, I’m giving you all an assignment for a End of Year Podcast. Either send in audio feedback, ..OR.. call the listener line (206-888-4488), ..OR.. call the Skype line (callto://inthetrenches), and leave your input regarding 1)…
We survived my office holiday party last night. As they say back in my old neighborhood, there was no gun play so it was a good party! (No that’s not a trivial matter, there is quite a bit of animosity between various people in my office. *L*) Seriously though, the food was alright, (although Angela…
As many of you know, in our small office the network server sits in my office. So do the spare laptops, and my own desktop with Admin access to everything in the building. Because of this, I take the extra physical security step of locking my office door at night. That means that my office…
It’s one of the areas of working in IT, specifically on the helpdesk, that no one ever prepares you for. They don’t cover it in the tech magazines, they don’t talk about it on tech podcasts, and you don’t hear much about it when you’re training for your career, but at some point, you will…
Things had been running so smoothly around here lately that I was actually beginning to think that when I do decide it’s time to leave, (probably next year, I get fully vested in the pension at the end of this year) it probably won’t be too big a deal. Then yesterday afternoon happened, and I…