Yesterday, while in Knoxville putting the finishing touches on a clients network, I had my first experience with a structural fire, sprinklers, and flooding. My clients office is on the extreme lower level off a large office complex undergoing renovation. Apparently someone on one of the upper floors started a small fire which set-off the buildings sprinkler system. Being in a nearly sound proof basement with no windows, our first indication of [...]

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I had an odd ball case a few weeks ago. I was contacted by a friend of a good client who needed me to do some data recovery on a laptop. Not all that unusual occurrence since, statistically speaking, data is more likely to be lost on a laptop top a on a desktop. When [...]

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While DNS is somewhat complicated, I’ll try to explain what is going on. A URL is composed of three or more parts. For example www.taborcg.com is the domain name for our site. The three parts are Host (www) Domain (taborcg) and Top Level Domain (com). there can also be one or more “sub-domains” between “www” [...]

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