5 Things That Shouldn’t Be Stored On Your Devices
Technology can be scary at times. In fact, I simply don't trust it with anything. I'm not into conspiracy theories and don't think the world's going to end. I simply…
Storing Data: Backups are one thing, but nothing beats a properly designed properly designed RAID1 computer system.
No matter what business you're involved with, I can almost guarantee there's some type of data. Data can be as simple as a mailing list or a complex database, without…
Pictures and More Pictures: Smartphones, digital cameras, and infinite storage options make hoarding digital photographs and images easy.
Pictures, pictures and more pictures. When I was a kid my mother used to take tons of pictures of my brothers and me. This weekend my mother dragged out the…
Encryption: 2016 will be the year of encryption. Encryption in politics and everywhere else, you wait.
Imagine you and me sitting down and creating a method of mincing and reassembling vegetables that only we knew. One day you pulled a potato from a bag of other…
Reporting Inaccuracies: Don’t trust everything you read on a computer screen.
Monday morning I was boarding my flight from St. Louis when I received a text message asking if my parents could hitch a ride from Boston. Of course I obliged…
Medical Imaging: Digital technology in hospitals has made patient care faster and less expensive.
Digital imaging in the medical field is a huge advancement since the days of film based x-rays and exploratory surgeries. Rather than take an x-ray and wait for it to…
Intercepting data: It’s important to understand that your privacy can be compromised at any time when using technology.
During my younger years I lived in a fairly congested part of New York. I was fortunate enough to live alone and had neighbors on all four sides of my…
XP Support: Why you shouldn’t be worried about April 8th
My parents bought their first Beta VCR in the mid eighties and used it until I moved out later that decade. Because every movie I owned was in the proprietary…
Medical Records: Electronic medical record systems are designed to be fast, accurate, and most of all private.
It was a fairly normal Saturday afternoon; I opened the Gardner store at 10:00AM and had computers streaming in and out throughout the day. Around 1:30PM I looked at my…