Electronic mail remains one of the fundamental network services. Here I explain POP, IMAP, and SMTP basics.
Category Archive: Technology
The one thing that sticks in my craw almost every time I browse amazon.co.uk is how dumb its recommendations are.
Security, like terror and debt, is a concept that can generate nightmares, or deep indifference, depending on your level of paranoia and anxiety.
We are only human, and each of us screws up on occasion. Large multinational corporates also screw up, […]
The real world performance of S.M.A.R.T. to warn of imminent drive failure is not as impressive as its claims, but here is how to get better use from it.
Forget Guy Fawkes, February now seems the month for having your bonfire.
There are strange stories, wild and fairly uninformed rumour I suspect, about the Apple Watch. When it ships […]
Over the next couple of years, the EU is set to shut down as many as 100,000 small businesses across Europe.
Network problems are most common when something comes along and upsets a network which previously seemed to work […]
This blog is almost a month old now, and it would help me to cater better for your […]
The Eclectic Light Company 