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Question from Darla: I went online to search for a new wall charger for my phone and iPad and I noticed that some of them were labeled as GaN chargers.
I had never seen that before (but it’s been years since I bought a new charger).
What does the GaN mean? [Read more…]
When people talk about winning in business, they usually focus on growth charts, customer counts, and market share. Bigger is supposed to mean safer. More customers are supposed to mean more power. A larger slice of the market is often treated like proof that a company is on the right track.
But that story leaves out the question that matters most on a random Tuesday afternoon when payroll is due, a supplier invoice lands, or sales slow down for two months: can the business actually pay its bills? [Read more…]
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Question from Lona: Hi, Rick. I have a really short question that I’d like to ask if you don’t mind.
What does the term “Social Engineering” mean? I keep hearing it but I don’t have a clue what it is. [Read more…]
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Computer technology has changed so much since the “stone age” of personal computing (circa mid-1970s).
Back then our mass storage options consisted of cassette tapes that were slower than ice melting and 8 inch floppy disks that held just a few kilobytes of data each.
What’s more, those floppy drives and floppy disks were very expensive!
Today we have hard drives than can hold several terabytes of data and solid state drives (SSDs) that can swap data in and out of a computer’s RAM at breathtaking speeds. [Read more…]
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Regular readers of this blog know I’m always mentioning how important it is to create regular backups of your computer’s hard drive or SSD.
After all, always having a recent backup on hand is the very best “insurance” you can have against a catastrophic drive failure or a crippling virus infection.
But there’s one important point that I probably don’t stress nearly as much as I should…