Beware of USB-C devices that aren’t reversible PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston One great benefit of USB-C cables (defined in 2014) over the older USB-A standard (1996) is that you can push a C cable into any C-compatible port without squinting to see whether the end of the cable is “up” or “down.” But the reversibility of C cables is being ruined […]
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Modernizing the network in a town treasure ISSUE 22.48 • 2025-12-01 BEN’S WORKSHOP By Ben Myers The General Store, at the very center of Harvard, Massachusetts, is a one-of-a-kind place to meet and greet friends and colleagues. It offers excellent food and some occasional live performances, all in a rustic building constructed in 1850. The computer equipment used by the store is […]
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A reminder that previews are just for testing Yesterday, Microsoft released KB5070311 which are preview updates for non security components that will be included in next month’s security releases. Just a reminder that these are for testing only as evidenced by the fact that they nearly immediately posted a known issue regarding white flashes that may occur when you are running in dark […]
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Using AI to counter AI I have a line-of-business software application that dumps out information in a format that is less than ideal. Often, I want the data in rows and columns in order to do my magic slicing and dicing. In the past, I would save as a PDF and then go into Adobe Acrobat to save/convert to Excel. […]
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MS-DEFCON 2: The first month of ESU ISSUE 22.48.1 • 2025-12-04 By Susan Bradley Here we go again: This month brings the first security patches to be released to Windows 10 during the Extended Security Update program. Because last month, Microsoft released an additional update to all Windows 10 PCs to fix an underlying issue with the ESU deployment. As a result, […]
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