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
WELCOME to New Readers – If you are new to this newsletter just a word of explanation – I do this newsletter roughly once a month – and I put in it various things that I’ve observed in the computer world, mac world, windows world and sometimes more 🙂 I never do anything else with … Read more
GREAT NEWS FOR THE ELDEST GEEK! TOP TECH is OPEN! Come visit! Our new address is 8332 Richmond Highway, Suite 205! Check out our nice SIGN on Richmond Highway: “Home of the Eldest Geek” 🙂 We have had the store running for a while now – drop by for a visit! We are open 10-7 … Read more
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