http://www.kozick.comThe Kozick.com Weblog - Life Kozick-StyleCopyright 2014. All rights reserved.At the Library, we’re “all in” on 3D Printing and the Makerfaire movement. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=516/12/2014 2:00:00 PM -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=505/29/2014 10:00:00 AMOne of the most common problems we get called about are "Printer Problems". -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=495/19/2014 6:00:00 PMHeartbleed is strangely enough a problem with Linux and not Windows for once. Downside is that a lot of major sites use vulnerable versions of OpenSSL. Make sure your protected, and make sure that your sites have actually changed their certificates and patched their systems before you go through the trouble of mass-changing all your passwords. Otherwise, you're really not fixing the problem. Here is some advice on how to test if a website is safe to change your password. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=484/12/2014 10:00:00 AMMicrosoft and Google are like two grumpy neighbours that keep trying to one-up each other with their gardening. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=471/19/2014 10:00:00 AMMicrosoft recently released Windows 8.1, which came bundled with the new Internet Explorer 11. After initially only being available with the update, Internet Explorer 11 is now available for Windows 7 as well. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=4612/2/2013 8:00:00 PM -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=4511/2/2013 11:00:00 AMI received an email from Microsoft this afternoon, and have only now returned to my desk to be able to comment on it. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=447/1/2013 10:00:00 AMMe and Shawn Whetsel went to tour local company MakerGear near Beachwood. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=436/25/2013 10:00:00 AM -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=426/23/2013 10:00:00 AMI have like 10 different companies trying to get my copier business. For a long while, we used Toshiba Business Solutions (Toshiba copiers obviously). -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=416/21/2013 3:30:00 PMApril 8th seems like such an innocent date, but it carries with it broad implications on the security of the internet and our computer systems. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=409/16/2013 7:10:00 AMI decided that I needed a little more storage and protection for network files. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=399/16/2013 7:00:00 AMWhat’s important to an enterprise disaster recovery plan (a.k.a. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=387/28/2013 10:00:00 PM -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=377/17/2013 10:00:00 AMMy car has been an ongoing drama for the past month or so. I had some rotor work done after my car got stuck in the Firestone Branch Library parking lot. Along with the rotors, my car was having intermittent trouble starting. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=366/9/2013 11:23:00 AMI always get those letters in the mail from Malone asking me to donate money. Maybe some people from my graduating class have the extra money to donate to them; I certainly don't. I'm looking at *maybe* paying off my own student loans in 5 years, possibly longer. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=355/25/2013 10:00:00 AMWith highly customized servers, one of the problems I have is figuring out how to turn them on. To put my servers into the cabinet, I mount them straight onto MDF. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=3412/23/2012 10:00:00 PMData breeches and thefts are a big buzz word in Tech right now. Many of these errors were caused by people running around with important information on flash drives and hard disks. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=3312/3/2012 11:40:00 AMWelcome to my homebrew series. I wanted to share some of my experiences modding my personal equipment. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=3211/29/2012 1:38:00 AMAdobe recently released their Adobe Reader XI (That’s 11 for you people who don’t jive with the roman numerals). -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=3110/24/2012 9:40:00 AMWe moved to a new place. One of my first computer projects would be to setup and configure my office and LAN. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=299/12/2012 11:00:00 PMI wanted to give some promotion to my friends over at Cleveland Public Library. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=287/23/2012 7:00:00 AMI’m sorry that I’m not some idiot who’s going to plug my machines directly into the internet. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=277/1/2012 10:00:00 PMWe’ve had AT&T Uverse since 2009. We switched to AT&T after Time Warner couldn’t solve an issue on our internet line with extreme packet loss. Besides some issues with my internet interface periodically disconnecting, I haven’t had too many issues. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=266/30/2012 9:00:00 AMMicrosoft is getting into the hardware business. They recently announced their new Surface and Surface RT tablets. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=256/27/2012 9:00:00 AMMicrosoft released the Release Candidate for Windows Server 2012, the next iteration of Windows Server. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=246/14/2012 11:00:00 AMWe happen to have a Cisco WebEx license, and I think that this is the ultimate answer for our problem. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=236/4/2012 8:00:00 AMThe next generation of wireless routers was released this month. The new standard is known as 802.11ac. The good news is that unlike 802. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=225/20/2012 11:50:00 PMUAC or User Account Control is a feature of Windows 7 that helps protect your computer from being harmed by changes made by potentially dangerous software or unprivileged users. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=215/12/2012 10:00:00 AMAnother advantage this year is that I’m taking a step up in technology. I was able to purchase a Windows Server 2008 R2 Volume License. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=201/29/2012 3:30:00 AM -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=1912/13/2011 11:00:00 AMI recently walked into the local Best Buy to purchase a serial cable. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=1612/6/2011 10:01:00 PMKeeping your servers and clients updated is one of the hardest tasks for an Information Technology Pro. There are two ways of going about this .You can manually run windows update, which becomes a tedious and regimented process, or you can set up some mechanism to automatically update your systems. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=149/2/2011 9:00:00 AMForget Patent-gate and forget Moogle (Google-Morotola); the latest bit of Technews is that Venerable PC titan HP is ditching both the mobile front with WebOS as well as the consumer PC biz. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=138/19/2011 5:00:00 AMOracle release Version 7 of Java at the beginning of the week. This is the first full version of Java released since the Oracle takeover. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=128/5/2011 10:00:00 AMOverDrive Inc. is a company that specializes in providing downloadable audiobooks and media for libraries. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=117/27/2011 10:00:00 AM -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=107/18/2011 11:00:00 PMFloppies are dead however, some patrons here at the library are really attached to their floppy disks. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=97/11/2011 10:00:00 AMI, of course, didn’t pay for the phone insurance or Best Buy “Black Tie Extortion Plan”. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=87/10/2011 12:28:00 PMThere was a letter in the news this week by an unnamed “High-level Blackberry Employee”, addressed to the Co-CEO’s of RIM, the company behind Blackberry. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=77/2/2011 2:00:00 AMI was watching the news yesterday, and they mentioned that Shaq now has an iPhone app to help protect kids online. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=66/22/2011 9:00:00 AMThere’ve been a lot of details floating around the about Windows 8. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=36/13/2011 1:00:00 PM -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=26/11/2011 9:00:00 AMI found out about 2 months ago that I have Diabetes. For most of my life, I’ve been relatively healthy; no major issues. This is one of those problems that drastically changes the way you approach food. My eating habits have changed, probably for the rest of my life. -- Visit http://www.kozick.com today for the full story.http://www.kozick.com/post.aspx?id=16/8/2011 6:30:00 AM