If you don’t need Windows only computer games, here’s a Linux version you might want to try: https://betanews.com/2020/03/05/zorinos-152-linux-windows/.
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Remind Employees (and Yourself)
To maintain information you need to regularly remind yourself and your employees to be attentive in their use of tools. We learn to follow certain safety rules with power tools, but often we forget to be similarly attentive with the devices that store and (hopefully) protect our information Some...
Narcissistic Leaders Are Narcissistic
… or something. The actual headline was How Narcissistic Leaders Squash Collaboration. My question is this: Did we need a study to tell us this? The results are worth reading, and if you’re choosing someone for a leadership role, they’re worth heeding. Despite all of this, overconfident leaders are...
Gutenberg, Layout Blocks, Resources
I have been working on using layout blocks for some more complicated WordPress layouts, including a new set of buyer’s guides to various topics. I haven’t really gotten enough expertise to post helpful things on how this works, but I found a site I hadn’t been using before, and...
Securing Your WordPress Site
A recent post on the Wordfence blog discusses a major set of attacks against WordPress sites, title WP-VCD. Most of my readers will not be interested in the technical details (which are, in fact, very interesting!), but the basic actions to keep your site secure listed near the end...
Barracuda Content Shield in Managed Workplace
You can guess how I feel about this one as I provided a quote. Barracuda Content Shield provides off-site checking of content, while Managed Workplace is the core of my services to small offices. If you’re one of my clients, you’re already benefitting from this to some extent. If...
Linux Enlightenment Desktop
Since I have a project to provide free computers to those who cannot afford them (I’ll be creating a page about this soon), and since I use a version of Linux to accomplish my mission, I’m always on the lookout for better desktops for Linux. I haven’t tried this...
Watch Those File Attachments
Multiple recent incidents of clients having difficulties with email attachments have set me to calling people to remind them of good security practices with email. You don’t have to be a victim. Dealing correctly with attachments to emails is extremely important because it has become one of the primary...
There’s Always an Excuse for Lying
Ars Technica reports that the FCC has found that major cellular carriers overstated their coverage, something most of us already knew. Based on that article, it seems that the FCC is using basic manipulation of when and in what way a release occurs to limit the attention paid to...
Ubuntu 19.10 PHP Not Working after Upgrade
I just want to put this in there for those who may be searching for help. After I upgraded to Ubuntu 19.10, my localhost server, which I use for a number of databases, quit rendering PHP pages. HTML continued to work. I found this page, Apache PHP no longer...