Matthew Inman of the webcomic The Oatmeal has released a coloring book featuring our favorite number, 404! Robot number 404 has gone missing. He's on his own little adventure and you can color in the story as it unfolds. In cozy Robot City, all robots are tucked in and accounted for, but #404 is missing. Is he searching for the city of Atlantis...or was he attacked by the … [Read more...]
Happy SysAdmin Day 2016
Today is the 17th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. The last Friday in July is a reminder to thank your SysAdmin for keeping your operation running. I like to extend SysAdmin Day to all IT Pros because it usually requires a team effort. From the help desk to DBAs to developers, communication, problem-solving, and constant learning of new technology is … [Read more...]
No More Ransom Project combines Intel Security, Kaspersky, and police to fight ransomware
The combined forces of Intel Security, Kaspersky Lab, the Dutch National Police,and Europol has resulted in a project called 'No More Ransom'. The cooperations has the goal of assisting the public with ransomware, a type of malware that can encrypt and hold your files hostage until you pay the ransom. If fewer people paid the ransom, it would be less profitable and might … [Read more...]
NVIDIA announces the new Titan X
NVIDIA has been impressive lately with their latest generation of graphics cards with the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, as well as the budget GTX 1060. Pushing the envelope to the maximum, they have announced the new NVIDIA Titan X today. Its specs are maxed out (though I'm sure the next generation will prove me wrong): 11 TFLOPS FP32 44 TOPS INT8 (new deep learning … [Read more...]
Weighing printer security risks
This post brought to you by HP MPS. The content and opinions expressed below are that of 404 Tech Support. In this month's batch of Windows Updates, Microsoft included KB3170005 in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS16-087 to address a vulnerability that could allow remote code execution on most versions of Windows and Windows Server. The proof-of-concept shows this is done … [Read more...]