ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Computer Technical Advisor Do you have a coin? Flip it. Tails, you are about to be the victim of identity theft. Heads, you’re safe — maybe. That’s the situation created by the recent Equifax data breach. The hack exposed the personal information of 143 million Americans. That’s half of […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Computer Technical Advisor What exactly is Big Data? Forbes defines it as “the exponential explosion in the amount of data we have generated since the dawn of the digital age.” Harvard researchers, Erez Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, explore this phenomenon in their book, Uncharted: Big Data as a […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Computer Technical Advisor A couple of weeks ago, a violent clash broke out between protesters and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. The violence occurred at a rally organized by white nationalists, angry at the imminent removal of a memorial for Confederate General Robert E. Lee. I was home and watching […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric W. Austin Computer Technical Advisor Elbridge Gerry, second-term governor of Massachusetts, is about to do something that will make his name both legendary and despised in American partisan politics. It’s two months after Christmas, in a cold winter in the year 1812. Typical of a politician, the next election is […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Computer Technical Advisor There’s a war going on, although you might not be aware of it. It’s a war between the almighty dollar and the information superhighway. I began my career in the early ‘90s, just as the internet-fueled tech boom was taking off. I’ve watched the internet grow […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Computer Technical Advisor Let me take you back a few decades to the 1980s. I was 12 years old and cruising around the neighborhood on my ten-speed mountain bike. On this particular day, I was exploring the garage sales along Lakeview Drive that are so prevalent this time of […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Computer Technical Advisor This past weekend I was the unfortunate victim of a hard drive crash. I have multiple drives installed in my computer, and this was my main Windows system drive. Even more infuriatingly, the drive was less than a year old. It took me two days to […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Computer Technical Advisor The land line rang at 5:29 p.m. Suspicious. I picked up the hand-set. “Hello?” “Hello! Do you have a few minutes to talk this evening?” It was a vivacious young lady. But something was off. I couldn’t put my finger on it. “What is this about?” […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Technical Advisor h, information. The internet has so much of it! In this climate of political chaos, news breaks faster than most of us can keep up. Fortunately, the internet is here to fill our heads with all kinds of wrong information! While the convenience of the internet is […]
ERIC’S TECH TALK by Eric Austin Technical Advisor So, there’s this thing called Netflix. It used to be you rented DVDs from them. They came in these little red envelopes. Now it’s out with the DVDs and in with the streaming video. One of the new ways kids have found to stay inside during beautiful […]