IT Professionals
Don’t Forget Your out of Office Message This Holiday Season
“Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… Please put a penny in the old man’s hat!” Taking time off over the holidays to recharge is important. However, not everyone chooses to take time off. With this in mind, creating an out-of-office message is important to ensure that people who email you know that you [...]
What Not to Do at a Holiday Party
Sure, it’s not even Halloween yet, but we like to prepare early. (It’s not like we’re a retail store putting up Christmas decorations in June, so cut us some slack, please!) With the holiday season soon to once again be upon us, it’s time for those office Christmas parties. I’m sure we’ve all seen that movie [...]
Remote IT Monitoring Can Reduce Support Costs
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of GoToManage. All opinions are 100% mine. Many of us who work in IT start out with the goal of solving interesting technology problems only to wind up mired in operations sustainability. Sometimes this is because there simply aren’t enough people to do all the [...]
Will Personal Servers Be Replaced by Cloud Computing?
Gnomie Roberto asks: “Will personal servers be replaced by cloud networking?” Chris Pirillo answers: “This is a really good question, because I think we all face this, especially if we’re afraid of letting our data be out there. Of course, usually the people who say they’re most afraid are the ones who use all these [...]
Measuring the Potential Effects of Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks
When you’re planning out your castle in anticipation of a potential siege, it’s good to know what kinds of enemies you might be facing somewhere down the line. If you think Dracula is likely to attack, for instance, build a moat and the sorry old bloodsucker won’t be able to cross the water to get [...]
Is Brand Important?
Over at LockerGnome’s new YouTube channel, Questions to Answer, Gnomie Frank Angelone asks: “Since branding is extremely important in the online space with getting recognized as a personality or just to establish your company name, if you were to redo it all over again today, what would be the name you would choose for LockerGnome [...]
EoIP: Ethernet over IP
At first earful, ethernet over IP, or EoIP, sounds like a backwards technology (usually we do IP over ethernet). But it’s got some very practical applications and helps to simplify situations that can easily get out of hand under more complicated systems. If you’ve ever run DD-WRT or some of the other router technologies, there’s [...]
Solid State: What Does It Mean, and What Are the Advantages?
The term “solid state” is used to describe devices that don’t rely on moving parts to function, and, as a result, generally enjoy longer lifespans than their traditional predecessors. Because it doesn’t have the wear and tear, friction, and vulnerability inherent in devices with moving parts, a solid state device should keep carrying on the [...]
Throughput Vs. Latency
Sure, if you’ve ever dealt with broadband merchants trying to upsell you to their most expensive network packages, you’ve heard the terms throughput and latency thrown about with fervent gusto. It all sounds very impressive, but do you know what these terms really mean to your networking experience? LockerGnome’s Brandon Wirtz talks about the differences [...]
Proxy Vs. Firewall: Keeping Your Network Fast and Safe
When people talk about network security, it seems that there’s a bit of misinformation going around as to the differences between a proxy and a firewall. Some think they’re mutually exclusive — that you can’t use both — but that’s not at all true. Some say that a proxy guards against incoming traffic by filtering [...]
