Monthly Archives: July 2014

Still Running Microsoft Windows Server 2003?

With so many companies still tackling the upgrade or replacement of Microsoft XP computers and Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers, the last thing many want to hear is that another server operating system is also about to hit it’s End Of Life. July 14, 2015 has been given by Microsoft as the end of life date…

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The Technology News Website CNET Has Been Hacked

CNET has acknowledged that hackers broke into some of their web servers several days ago and accessed a database of website users.  A Russian hacking group that goes by the name w0rm has publically taken credit for the stolen database, which they claim to be of more than one million users world wide.  The data…

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The Cost Of Data Loss & How To Avoid It

Recently more than 1,000 small to mid sized businesses were surveyed, by Spiceworks, about their data backup and recovery budgets, technologies, and planning.  According to the survey results 45% of the respondents said their business had experienced a data loss and of those data losses 54% were due to a hardware failure, 28% were due…

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm…

An Asus Eee PC came in-shop today staunchly refusing to eject a DVD from the Optical Drive. Once the computer was opened we discovered a sticky note had been inserted into the optical drive followed by a DVD which pushed the sticky note far into the back corner. This felt very reminiscent of years ago…

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