Category: 932: Internet Security Standards, A Package Manager for your Mac, Tech Bits!

Remember starting up your old mac and having every Mac user’s nightmare? That’s right, the sad mac! This symbol was used on older Macs and iPods and would show up upon start up when the device was experiencing a severe hardware issue. Have you ever wondered how this icon came about? This image was designed…

I’m a Mac user by way of Linux. From the time I was in college around 2008 to up until the beginning of 2015, my primary computer ran various versions of Linux. My favorite was “*Linux Mint*”:http://www.linuxmint.com/. Prior to using Linux as my desktop OS I had been using it on various web servers for…

Encryption is used to keep your private information safe on the Internet, whether it’s credit card numbers and contact info, your search queries, or iMessages to loved ones, by making them unreadable by anyone other than the sender and the intended recipient. The last year or so has been crazy in the realm of Internet…

The dog days of summer are here! We are in the heat of summer here in Vermont and with it we have seen some pretty extreme weather conditions; even in the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont we are not immune from extreme heat and torrential rains. These past few weeks it seems that if it’s…