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Category Archive: Macs

Upgrade or Replace?

Can you squeeze more from your existing Mac, or must you replace it to improve performance?

April 7, 2015 Macs, Technology

FileMaker 12 and 13 SSL security updates

If you use FileMaker’s SSL feature for connections between FileMaker clients and FileMaker Server, then you need to […]

April 7, 2015 Macs, Technology

Getting resilient

I am a great believer in the Internet remaining relatively unregulated, free to all, and free for all. But we need direction to provide better for disruption and disaster.

April 7, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Network hardware – shifting packets

Can you tell a router from a switch, do you know the MAC of your Mac, and what is the difference between IEEE 802.11b and g?

April 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

The Internet of Threats

Just as drug cheats always seem several steps ahead of those trying to stop doping in sport, so computer security is always playing catch-up to hackers. And now they can hack into vending machines.

April 6, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Unsupported – how to re-use your old Macs safely

Why hoard or recycle your old Macs when you could do something useful – but not dangerous – with them?

April 5, 2015 Macs, Technology

The joy of TeX

Few computer products thrive for over 30 years: the Mac (31 years young), Unix in its many guises (46), and TeX (37) each spring to mind.

April 5, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

SSL and HTTPS – should you trust them again?

Most of our financial and personal transactions should be protected by secure Internet connections. A year on, how has the Heartbleed bug changed this?

April 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

A C of Insecurity

Like the moth which flies miles to contact an irresistible lantern, only to die in its flame, the C languages continue to draw programmers to their nemesis.

April 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

What do you do when your broadband goes down?

With more and more of our documents cloudbound, failure of an Internet connection can spell disaster. Do you give up and chat, read a book, or what?

April 3, 2015 Macs, Technology

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