by borealis | Jun 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
If you’re like me, you get a lot of junk mail. But at my house, there’s one piece of mail I get frequently that infuriates me. In fact, my wife can tell from my reaction exactly what I’ve received. In my business, I have a large number of domains...
by borealis | Jun 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
As an IT Consultant, I’m consistently presented with computers that have not been updated in years. The process of getting these dinosaurs up-to-date is not only time consuming, it becomes expensive in a lot of other ways. First, consider the time it takes to...
by borealis | Sep 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Don’t be like Jennifer Lawrence. The recent celebrity photo hacking scandal brings to mind how far we’ve come in the world of technology, but also reminds us not to get too complacent about data security. Technology has come a long way, and it has even...
by borealis | Aug 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
For a number of years I have been fascinated with network and Internet security. However, over the past several years, as security threats around the world have steadily increased, my interest has become keener. My involvement...
by borealis | Aug 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
Let’s look a scenario. XYZ company has an opening for a Level II help desk position in its IT department. The hiring decision comes down to two people: Applicant A has a few years of experience, has done some user support, maybe worked on server or two, but has...
by borealis | Aug 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
In an interview with the Australian Financial Review, Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins went so far as to suggest that Apple’s iOS was an outdated operating system and that Blackberry would soon be passing it by. Really? Never mind that Apple’s iOS operating...
