Wayne Rash

I was on the phone with the credit card company, trying to determine whether the Visa card I carried could be used during my upcoming trip to Cuba. But first, the agent at the card company said that they had to be sure that I was really who they said I was. I’d already signed […]

On July 31, 2018, Facebook announced that the social network was removing 32-pages of bogus accounts for what the company called “inauthentic behavior.” Facebook gave a detailed explanation regarding the accounts it removed and noted that the behavior was similar to actions carried out by Russia’s Internet Research Agency before the 2016 election.  The next […]

T-Mobile’s CTO Neville Ray jubilantly tweeted on July 27, that the company had successfully tested a simultaneous, non-standalone 5G “New Radio” and 4G LTE connection.  This along with its first standards-based 5G NR bi-directional transmission in June, has shown that T-Mobile along with partner Nokia, have the technical ability to build a 5G network.  Qualcomm […]

A few days ago, I laid out the considerations involving a processor swap on a professional workstation. The idea is that you can improve the performance of your workstation by replacing the processor that’s in the machine now with one that’s faster. This can work if your workstation can accept a faster processor, but as […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun a series of briefings with executives of utility companies into the successful penetration of their supposedly secure networks by Russian hackers. The briefings, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, began in 2016 and continued into last year. DHS previously warned about the activities through an alert […]

A new antenna design and an integral modem chip that will allow mobile users to communicate using millimeter wave technology is now in production, according to chipmaker Qualcomm. Mohammed Al Khairy, Qualcomm’s Senior Manager of Modem Marketing, said July 23 that the new components are already in production, and that cellphone makers already have samples. […]

As part of its run-up to nationwide 5G communications, T-Mobile has launched narrowband IoT, a series of bands intended specifically for sensors and other devices that communicate only small amounts of data at any one time, but which need a dedicated band in which to do it. To do this, T-Mobile has utilized the guard […]

The indictment filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday the 13th reads in places like a crime novel. The story explains step-by-step how a group of Russian operatives who are part of the Internet Research Agency targeted the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign, hacked into their computers and then stole vast quantities […]

Now that we’ve outfitted our old HP Z620 Professional Workstation with more memory and solid-state drives configured in a RAID data storage system, one of the few things remaining that can be done is to replace the CPU that came with the machine with one that’s faster.  But before you start searching on Amazon for […]

When it comes to speeding up your older workstation, replacing the existing hard disks with solid state drives is probably the first step you should consider. Your workstation depends on its mass storage devices for more than just storing data and programs. Those swap files I mentioned in my previous column about workstation memory can […]