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How to Increase your Bandwidth while waiting for the NBN

The Problem Increasingly I am finding organisations who rely on cloud applications and want to gain all the benefits of improved communications such as Imap or Exchange email accounts , Video Conferencing and In general need greater bandwidth to achieve these things...

Linux VPN and Codemeter

I have blogged previously about the advantages of a Linux Server for such things as virtual private networking , web servers , file and backup servers etc. Centos Linux server , produced by Red Hat, is free and in my 15 years of using Linux reliable and can run on low...

Linux Server Build and VPN’s

  My first point of contact to any new clients is usually via a computer or network problem which they need repaired and over time as you do more work for these clients more interesting and complicated tasks arise. This came up quickly with one client who was...

Microsoft makes 2 Billion Dollars a year from Android

If you thought the CSIRO were doing well from their patents over Wi-FI technology , see my previous blog about job cuts at the CSIRO, then you will be really impressed by the royalties Microsoft acquires from the Android Operating System. That’s right all those...

Massive Job Cuts at CSIRO

Job cuts at the CSIRO would not normally  make their way into a Computer Technology blog but part of the cuts introduced this week involved the sacking of CSIRO lawyers whose job it was to protect and enforce CSIRO patents. What is not generally known is that for the...

Android Malware on the Rise

In a recent post I mentioned that malaware for Android phones ie Samsung , HTC , LG was on the rise. The following are examples of attacks focused on phones with this Operating System. ADROID FAKDEFENDER – has recently been found by Symantec researchers in some...

How to Browse the Web Anonymously

I know many of you are concerned about how easy it is to trace your online activity and how that infomation can be used and while I am not suggesting you engage in criminal activity it occurred to me that the collar bomber who attempted to extort money from the pulver...

Can you be Too Paranoid about Security

Well the answer happens to be yes.  A recent article in Ars technica explains In the U.S. in 2011, the Department of Homeland Security informed the Economic Development Authority  and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that there was a possible...