It’s said that during both Gulf Wars the US military blocked commercial GPS, but in fact this was known as selective availability to confuse the enemy, which luckily wasn’t the case during our road trip to the north of Argentina last week, where we met […]
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As a tech, you would think that my life was only about technology. Not true! There is something else I enjoy almost as much. That would be American Football, and when you combine the two, that’s my idea of heaven. It is almost time for
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My 2015 saw many new gadgets enter my life. While they are all good, some are great. Here is my ranking of the various devices that I acquired in 2015. 1. Apple Watch Sport While the Apple Watch has not seen stellar press, I love my
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Following close on the heels of the Lenovo “Superfish” debacle comes news of yet another major manufacturer embroiled in similar security controversy, this time it’s the US-based Dell. As part of an enhanced support tool, Dell installed a self-signed root certificate (eDellRoot) and corresponding private
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A few weeks ago we published an article describing what sort of security arrangements are being utilized by the DCT Team, catch up that article here: PC Security: What does the DCT Team Use? This time, we’ve asked them to tell us about their own
Computer Specs: What the DCT Team Uses & Why Read More »
We all know what is coming out this December right? If you don’t know than you have been living under a rock (or just not in tune to your Jedi Force). This epic movie has my geeky Jedi-force growing stronger. With that being said, it got
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“Telemetry is an automated communications process by which measurements are made and other data collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring” ~ Wikipedia A lot has been written about privacy issues in Windows 10, which, to some extent, have
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The net is abuzz with news of a vulnerability uncovered in the popular WinRar software, potentially affecting over 500 million users worldwide. The vulnerability, which makes it possible for malicious code to be executed when opening self-extracting (SFX) ZIP or RAR files, was recently discovered
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Administrative Tools More articles in this series Part 2: Event Viewer Part 3: Windows Firewall With Advanced Security The Administrative Tools suite within Windows has continued to improve since XP on a slow but steady pace. I wonder though how many average users are aware of the tools
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One of the products announced at Apple’s Special Event on September 9th was the next generation Apple TV. According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, “the future of television is apps.” And, sure enough, the 4th-generation Apple TV will have an App Store. A redesigned remote
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