McDonalds have this week announced that free high-speed wireless internet is to be rolled out around their 1200 or so restaurants. This, they say, takes them to the top of the free internet hotspot providers.

Check out the details at the cunningly titled www.mcdwireless.com

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If you buy a new laptop today - more often than not it will come with a wireless management program from the company you purchased the laptop from. This (in theory) should work efficiently with the computers hardware giving you no problems with setting up access to different wireless access points and networks. I have [...]

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Research conducted by IT security and control firm Sophos has revealed that 50 percent of workers are being blocked from accessing Facebook by their employers who are worried about the website’s impact on productivity and security, and have therefore put policies or access controls in place to ban its use in the workplace.In a Sophos [...]

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I just got off the phone with on of our partner ministries in Darwin. They have some visitor there right now and they were having troubles sending e-mail. They could receive e-mails, but they could not send e-mail.
After spending a good chunk of time checking the configuration of their router and their local computer and [...]

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One of the things that I get called about frequently here at my job (despite not really being in technical support), is people saying that their internet is down and can I help them get back on. The main complaints are that either ‘I cannot connect to my wireless router - the computer finds it [...]

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A network sniffer is an essential tool for any system/network administrator. The famous Ethereal used by the Linux has now a nice GUI (also for Windows), a different name and a new company behind it.
Wireshark works by catching all the traffic on one or more interfaces. To catch all the traffic on your network you [...]

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