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Response to the PHP2Shell Vulnerability
Approximately two weeks ago, on October 20th, an extremely serious security flaw was disclosed for PHP—the software that powers the vast majority of web servers and roughly 70%...
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It’s Official - We’re Expanding
Our occasional collaborator and co-host Dr. Nadine Robinson is now formally working with the Smartypants team to help communicators and adminstrative staff make safe and...
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The Battle of the Bots…And Best Tools for Transcripts
All of the major tech players are releasing every more powerful A.I. tools. While many freelancers just want a reliable way to create transcripts from recordings.
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AI in Everyday Life - Part 1 of 5
The first of five two-hour sessions about AI in Everyday Life. Discussions, demostrations, relevant videos and video clips, documents and some very recent news about the world...
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An Overview of AI in Everyday Life for SCANS (Senior Collage Association of Nova Scotia)
AI seems like it just arrived, when in fact it's pretty much everywhere. This hour-long overview was a pre-amble to a 10-hour course that went far and wide to find real-world...
Continue ReadingA.G. Bell Redux - Fibre to the Home (FTTH)
The best conference I've ever attended was back in the 1980's in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in honour of Alexander Graham Bell, who's famous as the inventor of the telephone yet generally...
Continue ReadingAnother set of spam tracks
The name that keeps showing up in a series of similar domain names / spam is BayViewMarketing. They're supposedly based in Oregon and, while they have various web and mail hosts all...
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Spam today included the following participants (as the source, the website host, the DNS service, or the domain name registration):
Limestone Networks - limestonenetworks.com
Gogax...
Continue ReadingStephen's First Law of Technology Issues
When confronted with malfunctioning technology, the problem with invariably resolve itself exactly 5 seconds after you go to the effort of contacting technical support.
Continue ReadingWho's involved in today's spam?
I periodically report spam using IronPort's Spam Cop site and, in the process, have a look at the spammer's web hosting provider, domain name register, and domain name management. And...
Continue ReadingAs You Post, So Shall You Reap
Last year, I worked on a training project with Canadian ground troops. They were set up in a camp less than a kilometer from what was supposedly a village in some far-0ff land. The...
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