BY ANDY BLECHER Managing Partner/Network Engineer Backplane Technology Group If you haven’t heard the news, Windows XP is officially end of life as of April 8, 2014. If you have a computer with Windows XP what do you do? Well, let’s first examine what this means. As of April 2, 2014, Microsoft will no longer […]
BY STEPHANIE DOLCE When you get invited to a wedding and you’re single, you panic. Period. Many visions of nightmare situations start bouncing around in your head. Where am I going to be seated? Will I be asked to bring a guest, if so should I bring one? What if I am not asked to […]
GOTHAMIST An allegedly gender-segregated park run by a Hasidic enclave in Orange County will now be subject to strict NYCLU and ACLU oversight, thanks to a lawsuit that was settled this week. Last year, both the NYCLU and ACLU sued Satmar-run village Kiryas Joel, an enclave in Monroe, NY, claiming that the village had been requiring […]
Clarkstown drained its reserves keeping afloat budgets rippled with a river of structural deficits. It must now sell a Town asset for cash or lose its Triple A bond rating. Clarkstown’s seniors will be muzzled and ‘sold down the river’ for cash. BLOG BY MICHAEL HULL From news reports it is becoming increasingly worrisome that the Town […]
BY STEPHANIE DOLCE When you decide to play cupid for yourself, sometimes you hit tricky ground. Over the past few months I have felt every emotion I thought I could possibly feel, and unexpectedly. See, that’s what “Cupid” has the power to do. It all started off with a smile, that quickly turned into realizing […]
BY ANDY BLECHER Managing Partner/Network Engineer Backplane Technology Group Too often I come across computers, smart phones, even servers, and other network devices without a password. “Nobody is going to break into this? Why would they want to? There’s nothing valuable on my computer.” Wrong. You’re computer has a lot of value. Ever been somewhere […]