Author Archives: Brian Schoen

-18F today with a 100% chance of WIFI Tomorrow

  From the cold depths of McCook Cold Storage in McCook, IL Realnets recently starting wrapping up it’s task. Cover over 190,000 sq ft of -18F warehouse space with perfect, continuous WIFI for their automated scanning systems. We worked all the issues – heated equipment enclosures, intense interference, overlapping zones, 5 stories of height, and endless product in between the devices [...]
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Worthy Insurance Group = Expertise

  The insurance game has always been about knowing what your getting. All those items in fine print can really hurt you when you need help most. In the computer infrastructural engineering spaces you can really get yourself in trouble. You need insurance. You need someone that can tell you what your getting and not getting. You need [...]
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Technology making “Do-it-yourself historians” the future

  Today someone posted a pretty cool item on Facebook. It led me down a unexpected trail. Let me just start real quick with the item. It’s a old gas station pump globe. Ends up the guy who found it may have obtained a item from a old gas station that is no more, but [...]
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Symantec customer? Norton Anti-virus / pcAnywhere Source code shows up in India

  Last week Symantec announced their source code for serval of their products including Norton Anti-virus was stolen. This of course allows anyone with the source to scan it for vulnerabilities.  It could possiably allow you to write a virus that the program couldn’t detect. I’ve always belived that Symantec focuses on to many products. Now it appears [...]
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Solar Storm Affects Computer Networks

  It seems that today’s solar storm has taken down some services on the US East coast. Comcast users are feeling the effects of failed DNS servers due to the storm (reported by theweatherspace.com). Did you know that you can protect your infrastructure by taking proactive steps. Realnets provides monitoring solutions that can be customized to [...]
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