Author Archives: John Shankland

An issue has recently been discovered that may cause complications for all servers running the Xen hypervisor which is utilized on all customer servers in US Central Zone A. Due to the severity of this issue, we will be performing maintenance on all customer servers in US Central Zone A during the next 72 hours.

Here is an article on Forbes that explains it better.

Apple announced that all data stored on an iOS device running iOS 8 is fully encrypted and cannot be accessed without your passcode.

Go to the Apple menu in the upper left corner of the screen and click on About This Mac.

Then click on More Info…

In the following window, click on System Report…

Go to the File menu and click on Save and save the system profile to your desktop.

Then you can attach the file to an email.

28 of our esteemed lawmakers sold more soul and lobbied the FCC NOT to make broadband into a public utility. The top brass wrote a letter that is absolutely unbelievable, except we already know these “lawmakers” totally sold out long ago.

Boehner (R-OH), Cantor (R-VA), McCarthy (R-CA) and McMorris (R-WA) wrote:

“We are writing to respectfully urge you to halt your consideration of any plan to impose antiquated regulation on the Internet, and to warn that implementation of such a plan will needlessly inhibit the creation of American private sector jobs, limit economic freedom and innovation, and threaten to derail one of our economy’s most vibrant sectors,” they wrote.

Here is the full article with the breakdown of what these douche bags were paid to talk bullshit.

Restore Net Neutrality By Directing the FCC to Classify Internet Providers as “Common Carriers”.

Jon Oliver explains it with some humor.

IFTTT stands for “If this then that”. It is a new generation of services that allows you to setup recipes that trigger events. For example, I have one setup that tells me when Apple’s stock price drops below $300. When that happens, it sends me an email. Anther is this post. When I publish it it is supposed to then post to my Facebook Fan page for Axis Tech. Lets see if that works.

The Librarian of Congress decided in October 2012 that unlocking of cell phones would be removed from the exceptions to the DMCA.

As of January 26, consumers will no longer be able unlock their phones for use on a different network without carrier permission, even after their contract has expired.

Consumers will be forced to pay exorbitant roaming fees to make calls while traveling abroad. It reduces consumer choice, and decreases the resale value of devices that consumers have paid for in full.

The Librarian noted that carriers are offering more unlocked phones at present, but the great majority of phones sold are still locked.

We ask that the White House ask the Librarian of Congress to rescind this decision, and failing that, champion a bill that makes unlocking permanently legal.

whitehouse.gov petition