Disaster Recovery

If you’re leasing server equipment in a hosting provider’s data center, you’re likely paying through the nose for antiquated technology. There is peace of mind that comes with that service in the form of care free hardware maintenance, but is that really enough to keep you paying for that same 4GB of RAM every month for life?

Spanning the globe to joke about this week’s top tech stories, from North Korea to New Zealand with a quick stop on Mars

The Spirit rover’s Mars mission almost ended before it really got going due to a DOS-related software bug, which wasn’t caught due to a rushed development schedule

Unfortunately OpenX has taken some poorly thought out and executed measures to attempt to monetize their open source version of the software which has introduced some major security flaws.

What happens when the Naughty or Nice server goes down?

This is the third post in a series of posts describing a variety of home backup strategies and options. External drive backup has been the primary method used for proper backups for the past two decades.

Wanna give a good Halloween scare to that special system or database administrator in your life? Try mentioning one of these commands

I never wanted to be in IT support; now I am - at home

The FAA's plan to allow as many as 30,000 observation drones to fly over the U.S. by 2015 could be catastrophic, especially the big planes FedEx plans to use to cut delivery costs. GPS spoofing can confuse drones and give attackers "a missile" to direct as a weapon, not an instrument of rescue or law enforcement, researcher warns.

Login data for as many as 6.5 million LinkedIn users has been posted on a Russian hacker site. LinkedIn hasn't confirmed the breach, but Tweets confirm many real passwords are on the list. Change your password. Get a password vault. Use different passwords for important sites.

Not every telling photo is accurate; not every accurate photo is telling. This one, which appears to be two trained police dogs restraining a Chicago cop in riot gear from attacking protesters, tells a more interesting story than the cops-punch-protesters headline image of the protest.

Hope you can swim evildoers