A little explanation today, as background to the bizarre fax we got this morning. We don’t have a traditional ISP, we have a company that we are partnered with, who provided a consultant about 6 years ago to put together our computer network. (Before I worked here). We’ve simply thrown up a fractional T1 between…
Speaking of why I do this website, I got this from one of the hundreds of folks who wandered over from Lockergnome yesterday: “Hi, Mike. I’m another Gnomie visiting your site. I used to be a one man IT dept, until I moved to the mountains to work from home in a different capacity. Now…
Wow, Badtrans just seems to be everywhere doesn’t it? We’re still seeing quite a few copies of it flowing into the generic mailbox we have setup at work. One of my co-workers got it at home over the weekend too. She was asking me first thing this morning about the possibility of it spreading to…
News UK: BT admits sending internet virus to its customers. Ouch, that’s a rather embarrassing thing for an ISP to have to admit. Of course if people had kept their browser upgrades and patches up to date it wouldn’t matter who sent it to them, it couldn’t hurt them. Guess that’s asking too much though,…
Rant for today, Why does it seem like company websites are afraid to just give you basic information, like say, pricing!?!?! We got a mailing from Sprint today about their business dedicated internet access, the mailing said for more information either call, or visit their website. Since we’re not really looking to switch ISP’s or…
File-swapping case may break new ground They may have a case, Napster did have a central server and was designed to share MP3’s, many of which they knew would be copyrighted. These guys are simply distributing software that can be used to share copyrighted materials, but can be used for many other things as well….