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Contingency Planning

November 3, 2009
By Gerry

It’s the kind of situation that none of us like to think about–a fire burns the headquarters or a flood damages inventory and shuts down the entire area, but it’s the kind of situation every small business needs to be prepared for. We’ve all seen news stories after disasters showing people who don’t know...
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Eavesdropping

November 2, 2009
By Gerry

As a technology person I work at coffee shops a lot. I usually try to avoid listening in on other peoples conversations – mostly out of respect for the privacy of other people and partly because I just don’t want to know. In this...
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Sprint security

October 29, 2009
By Gerry

So I find myself in the middle of an issue with Sprint. I have to say that while I like the quality of their phone service they do leave something to be desires from a customer service standpoint, but that is not the worst...
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Virus protection

October 27, 2009
By Gerry

So there’s always a debate on which is the best anti-virus program. One day there’s a study showing one is the best and the next day that program seems to be at the bottom of the list. This one is faster, that one catches...
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Windows 7 torrents

October 27, 2009
By Gerry

I had a couple of items I needed to download via torrents last week. I installed uTorrent on my newly set up Windows 7 machine and got started. Now I am used to the idea that when torrents are going on in the background...
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