To anticipate and prevent
Recently Lauren and I attended an open house for a Datacenter/Hosting Company. Since it was an open house, there was no set schedule other than the event starting at 4 PM. I mention this because we showed up within a few minutes of the start time at a point in which there was basically no…
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We’ll call this post a PSA. As of today, John is off on this crazy thing called a “vacation” (aka Fleeing the country). As he is the Master Of English around these parts, we’re throwing a little party while he’s gone. The party is where I slaughter the English language for shits and giggles. Fear…
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Guild Wars 2 had an open beta this past weekend and I received an invite since I had pre-ordered the game (back in August of 2009, for the record). It was very clearly labeled as an open Beta, “Feel free to talk about it with your friends,” noted the load screen. Sure, it’s just NCSoft…
As a professional IT person, I make a point of watching the livestream for events like WWDC Keynotes. Within 24 hours someone is asking me if they can have the new X, what I think about the new Y, or some questions about the exact details of Z. Plus I prefer to get my information…
Somewhere between 350,000 to 400,000 internet users are currently infected with some very nasty malware known as “DNSChanger”. It got this very clever title because it… wait for it… changes your DNS. Hijacking someone’s DNS would allow bad guys to do click-fraud, login hijacking, man-in-the middle attacks, or any number of bad things. Fortunately the…
As everyone knows, today is IPv6 Launch Day, where we (the internet) are supposed to turn on (and leave on) IPv6. It saddens me that I am unable to participate in this launch day by turning on IPv6… because We’ve been natively v6 accessible since June 2011. Even before that, Snowulf & company were accessible…