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By Ross Madden
March 12, 2010 1:47 pm MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Security News, Tips and Tricks, Windows
By Ross Madden
March 12, 2010 1:47 pm MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Security News, Tips and Tricks, Windows
One little project I have been researching involves installing and monitoring an inexpensive video/image surveillance system in order to secure assets and resources. This need has arisen due to several thefts that have taken place on campus. My hope is that having installed this system will prevent any attempt, and if one does occur, I […]
SSL certificates are the little files installed on a web server that allow a computer to establish secure (SSL) connections for transmitting sensitive data over the Internet. Web sites that use ‘https’ must use these SSL certificates to create these secure connections from client to server. In late (very late) 2009 the SSL certificate provider […]
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By Ross Madden
January 5, 2010 3:34 pm MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Security News
By Ross Madden
January 5, 2010 3:34 pm MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Security News
UPDATE (1/8/2010) – This problem appears to be fixed. Clients should now be receiving a correct date on their definition updates. I received this message from ACNS and thought I should pass this around. Hopefully we will get correct dates soon. I wanted to let you know that Symantec is aware of an issue where […]
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By Ross Madden
December 3, 2009 9:25 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Tips and Tricks
By Ross Madden
December 3, 2009 9:25 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Tips and Tricks
The Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) has just announce that registration is now open for the 31st Annual Professional Development Institute. The Institute will run all day on January 6 and 7, and the morning of January 8, 2010. Below you will find a list of my suggested computer related sessions. These are by […]
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By Ross Madden
November 19, 2009 9:43 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Tips and Tricks, Windows
By Ross Madden
November 19, 2009 9:43 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Tips and Tricks, Windows
UPDATE: The information regarding the Cisco VPN in this article is deprecated as the Cisco IPSec VPN client has reached its end of life . Please use the Secure Gateway instead: https://gateway.colostate.edu. It has been stated before and will be stated again, but here goes – Cisco will not be releasing a VPN client for […]
I am often asked these two questions. I have a new computer, how can I remove all the CRAP that came preinstalled? I have an older computer, how can I speed it up? I will share with you a little IT secret, and that is CCleaner. In short, this program optimizes your system, by removed […]
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By Ross Madden
November 10, 2009 11:03 am MT
Posted in Apple, General CNSIT, The Cloud
By Ross Madden
November 10, 2009 11:03 am MT
Posted in Apple, General CNSIT, The Cloud
With the release of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) there have been reports of slowness, and hanging of the Finder when attempting to access SAMBA (SMB) network shares. SAMBA network shares are essentially the most popular type of network share in use today, and the primary method of sharing files between Macintosh computers and […]
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By Ross Madden
November 6, 2009 8:16 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Security News, Windows
By Ross Madden
November 6, 2009 8:16 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Security News, Windows
I have restarting one of the Department of Biology’s Domain Controllers this morning at 7am on Friday, the 6th of November. This restart was necessary to apply a few security patches. Chloroform is one of two domain controllers within the Department. Fluoroform is the other domain controller and was not restarted during this maintenance. Domain […]
“Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets” (http://www.twitter.com). What the heck does that even mean though? Twitter has actually been around for several years, but only this past 12 months has it picked up steam and become a household […]
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By Ross Madden
October 8, 2009 9:03 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Windows
By Ross Madden
October 8, 2009 9:03 am MT
Posted in General CNSIT, Windows
No, I’m not pitching some “Google pays me $1,425 a week” foolishness. I am talking about how you can connect to your work computer from home if you find yourself sick, or if one of the campus’ emergency plans are implemented due to pandemic, weather, or whatever else you can think of. I have created […]
