It’s been over two weeks now since I installed a Verizon Wireless Network Extender at home. We can get a weak Verizon signal at our house, but it varies based upon where in the house the phone is. I wanted to have a way to reliably use my Verizon Wireless cell phones at home. That [...]
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“Backups are the disaster recover plan!”, he emphatically said. And so began the conversation… Of course, backups are a part of the disaster recovery, but not the complete plan. Just last night I found out about a local business whose server crashed. They had been dutifully performing backups. The backup subsystem reported that backups had [...]
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By now we’ve all heard that Twitter was offline for a couple of hours today, and that FaceBook was running slowly. The reports are that they both were victims of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. While this was limited to sites that, admittedly, have little measurable business value, what if it was a [...]
When the alarm went off this morning (4/27/09), the first thing I heard before I got out of bed was the NPR announcer saying, “… the U.S. is being warned to prepare for a Swine Flu epidemic.” I hit the button to shut her off, stumbled to the shower and spent most of the show [...]
Recently, our town of 50,000 was hit by a tornado. The tornado started as an EF4 when it first touched down, but it weakened to EF2 before lifting. According to public records, 31 homes were destroyed with another 56 suffering major damage. Three businesses were destroyed and 11 were hit with major damage. Many more [...]
