A 19 year old London Ontario resident has been arrested for launching the heartbleed attack on the Canadian revenue Agency. “We would absolutely want to share this with Canadians. They have a right to know,” said RCMP Cp. Lucy Shorey.
Another reason people should be paying more attention to their own personal security, privacy and holding it dear while on the Internet comes to light. The Heartbleed bug or exploit, was discovered over 2 years ago, however, the fact that it has recently come to light in the last few […]
Microsoft announced that April 8th, 2014, is the last day of Windows XP support. This leaves many people wondering what their options are. Do they need to buy a new computer, or just the Operating System. Then, if you upgrade, how will the computer performance affect your usage of the […]
From Microsoft on Tuesday, April 8th 2014. What is Windows XP end of support? Microsoft provided support for Windows XP for the past 12 years. But the time came for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources toward supporting more recent technologies so that we can continue […]
Recently dealing with this virus, and it’s not a pretty sight. This was developed apparently somewhere in Europe and has now traversed the world, and causing havoc for people that do not follow back up plans.
Have you ever called for support and been asked to provide information about your computer? You end up spending almost 30 minutes going through different menus while you try to uncover your devices and hardware for the technician. All the while still being billed for service, and haven’t even started […]
Is your computer running slowly, does it shut down without warning and power off? Does it take longer and longer to start every time you turn it on? This may be an easy solution for you.
Hard drive maintenance and performance, is one of the major bottlenecks in computer performance. Even today with newer computers, we still get slow hard drives. SSD’s(Solid State Drives) are still not standard on most computers, and neither is 7200 rpm(Revolutions Per Minute) or faster drives. The default is the 5400 […]
Printers tend to have a lot of mis-feed’s and paying 45$ or 90$ for a technician to come in and fix it in less then 20 minute’s can be expensive. Here are a few tips, that the technician himself will do.
Backups are a necessity these days, with viruses, malware, spyware, and people taking the power button for granted. All of these can lead to data loss. Data loss can lead to lost revenue, and of course lost time. Does your back up plan measure up?
Before you look into data recovery options, please take some time to evaluate what it is that you are trying to accomplish. Obviously the main goal is to retrieve a file, photo, video or something stored on a drive, that may be corrupt, or has failed for some reason.
Everyone tries to get as much performance out of Microsoft Windows as possible. Whether it’s gaming, or 3d applications, we can always wish our computers were faster. Windows is a resource intensive operating system, taking much more of your available resources then are needed. Windows is designed to pretty much […]
More and more I notice client’s do not do their windows updates, not only on office computers, but on their home computers either. Whether they lack the ability or the know how, these get neglected more often then not.
DD-WRT is a linux based open source firmware alternative for many different routers. You can check for device support at http://www.dd-wrt.ca/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices. The main emphasis lies on providing the easiest possible handling while at the same time supporting a great number of functionalities within the framework of the respective hardware platform […]
I was talking with a photocopier technician the other day, and he asked if I still carried a cross-over cable. I informed him that I haven’t carried one with me for a few years now since most newer computers and peripherals support automatic negotiations. I always carry a 6ft cable […]
