We are configuring 2 PC’s for use in a retail Tea store. One PC will have two PowerPoint presentations displaying the Menu on 42 inch LCD monitors. The other PC will Run three Flash presentations with features and benefits of their products. Sounds real easy doesn’t it? Well it is not! (more…)
We have been testing a 50 Mbit business class fiber circuit. It’s very difficult to measure the performance since so many external factors influence the real throughput. The ISP does not have tools to allow us to measure circuit performance. There are many speed tests on the internet, but they each produce significantly different results. Another factor influencing speed is the distance between the test sites. Most circuits show a dramatic drop off in performance when measured to a point more than a few hundred miles away. (more…)
We were configuring a pair of sophisticated layer 7 Firewalls for high availability (stateful fail over). Stateful failover allows the firewalls to maintain actual session states, providing an almost seamless transition from one unit to the other. Layer 7 refers to firewalls that provide application-layer filtering. In test mode everything worked fine and when first brought them on line, they worked perfectly. (more…)
Aside from the most obvious security mistakes such as using default user names and passwords for web applications, there are many other serious threats that can easily bring down your website. SQL injection attacks are one of the more common threats. They are easy to create and can destroy your sites data. If only certain parts of your site are attacked you might not notice it for a while. In this situation you may need data backups from prior days or even prior weeks. Be very certain that you have a solid backup plan. (more…)
At Micro-Point we are beginning to phase out back to tape and are moving to External drives for data protection. Disk based backup is faster and more reliable than tape. As a perfectionist, I noticed some minor issues (bugs) with our external storage devices and since I was aware that a new generation of software was available, I decided to investigate. The new package (both software and firmware) had been out for 6 months, so I thought it would be safe to upgrade out storage devices, thereby fixing some minor issue and using the new features. (more…)
