The Wiki Demystified

Knock down information silos and improve operational efficiency By Charles Groce, CEO of Pearl Street Consulting Republished from Graphic News magazine, May 2015 I recently had the displeasure of having a dryer belt slip in my laundry room, rendering the dryer useless...

The results are in…another fantastic year for open source

Open source software company Black Duck Software just released the results of the latest Future of Open Source Survey, and they definitely point to where the trends are going.  Some highlights: Seventy-eight percent of respondents said their companies run part or all...

Should you be focusing on Google+? Uh, no.

So a couple of geeks out there on the internet had an interesting question.  How much of Google+ is really just vapor?  After all, Google basically created its social media network out of thin air, converting about 2 billion Gmail and Youtube accounts into Google+...

FREAK and OpenLDAP

If you’ve got a Windows 2003 server running your small or medium-sized business network, you need to take the FREAK threat seriously.  The vulnerabilities in various operating systems that this attack is taking advantage of are enabled in Windows 2003 and...