Craig Baker GREAT NEWS FOR THE ELDEST GEEK! WE HAVE A NEW LOCATION! I am happy to announce that we have signed a lease on a new space, and we will be in the Marcel Center – a strip mall a few blocks down and on the other side from Mt Vernon Antique Center. The address is … Read more
MT VERNON FIRE UPDATE FROM THE ELDEST (and temporarily Homeless) GEEK Its not been a week since the fire (Monday Night). I’ve put up some images on my website www.theeldestgeek.com Insurance folks have NOT let anyone onsite. They are concerned about injury if a beam were to fall on someone going through the rubble! As … Read more
dont usually write these emails this often (as you all well know) but I’ve been asked by quite a few of you what you can DO about KRACK – the new WIFI vulnerability that has recently made big news. Well – read on! And as well I picked up some SUPER nice laptops that need … Read more
MORE HIGH SIERRA ISSUES! HUGE SECURITY FLAW – and Filesystem changes! There have been additional problems with High Sierra – And it was revealed last week you can log in as ‘root’ with NO password onto any mac running High Sierra. Thats a WOWSER of a flaw – and Apple has been working on it. … Read more
MAC OS 13 – High Sierra. Upgrade or no? short answer NOT YET I have been evaluating High Sierra the lastest Mac OSX – and there are a number of serious issues. They fall into various categories. Work arounds are available for some, but far from all. For now STAY AWAY. A number of customers … Read more
ALL ABOUT KRACK NEW WIFI VULNERABILITY – I’ve had a quite number of customers ask me about KRACK – the subject of quite a bit of recent news! Well – here is the scoop. KRACK – the name comes from Key Re-installation Attack. It exploits a weakness in the WPA protocol that protects Wifi traffic, … Read more
THE RUSSIAN THING I have been watching this with considerable interest (as I’ve pointed out several times) and I’ve been asked recently -whats changed? whats different? and what do we really KNOW. These are interesting questions – but fundamentally I’m still convinced that Russia had NOTHING to do with the hacks. Not because they might … Read more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Jobs in the future We are getting VERY close to a true AI system folks. And the implications are rather huge. No I’m not talking about Watson – I’m far from impressed by it. A true AI system. And I can tell you where it will start (been saying this for … Read more
SSD UPGRADE IN YOUR FUTURE? MAC? PC? iMac? BEWARE YOUTUBE!!! I’ve been struck in having 3 customers very recently who all purchased SSD upgrade kits for their Imacs. In each case it seemed to be a simple job and youtube showed how to do it. All led to major problems if not disaster. BEWARE YOUTUBE … Read more
SIERRA – whats the story now? OS Sierra seems to be acceptable now – and we are putting it on our newer macs 🙂 And I’ve just installed it on MY macbook – and make sure you immediately get to 10.12.2 updates! Apply ALL updates. So far, so good! I like it and it seems … Read more