How To Set up a Home Office Network
Part 1: Getting Internet Service
The first step in setting up a home office network is to figure out how you are going to connect to the internet. You need an on-ramp to the information superhighway. There are several different ways to get on the Internet. This is good because competition lowers prices and improves features, but bad because marketing geniuses have a gift for confusing everyone about their choices.
How To Set up a Home Office Network: Part 1 – Getting Internet Service
How To Set up a Home Office Network: The Overview
How To Set up a Home Office Network: The Overview
This is a multi-part series to explain in simple language the process of connecting to the internet and setting up a home network.
The Overview – Includes a checklist. Looking for the basics? Start here.
Part 1: Get Service – Choosing an internet service provider
Part 2: Get Connected – What equipment is necessary for connecting one or more machines to each other and the internet.
Part 3: Get Secure – Securing your network from hackers and pests. (coming soon)
Part 4: FAQ – Submit your questions in the comments or using our form. (coming soon)
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Laptop Stolen from VA Teleworker Recovered
The head of the VA reported that the stolen laptop with veterans’ personal information on it had been recovered.
If, as it appears, the data has not been compromised then this is good news for vets. However, I don’t see how it lets the VA off the hook for their shoddy data security practices.
They don’t need to forbid teleworking, they simply need to implement policies and practices to protect data. Some of these practices will include technology, some will include behavioral changes. All will include an awareness of security implications on the part of all who access or transport data.
Wow! Buffett Gives $37 Billion to Charity!
Yeah. That’s billion with a “B”.
Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world, announced that he is giving about $30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. (You know, the charitable foundation created by the richest man in the world.) Buffett is also giving about $7 billion to the charitable foundations of his wife and kids.
For those counting along at home, this leaves about $7 billion for those incidental expenses required as Warren winds his way through his senior years.
Wow!
I don’t really know what else to say. I just hope to do the same thing some day. I had better get started.