“You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day.”
That’s how the TV Series Person of Interest used to start in the past.
Since the last series was aired in 2016 past couple of interesting years. This TV fiction shows how abuse of power could lead to invigilation of the world citizens.
The problem starts when the fiction starts becoming reality, and we do not even know about it.
Recently I decided to connect an UPS (uninterruptible power supply) at work to one of the devices that runs 24 hours a day. The UPS that we currently have is the APC Back-UPS 1400 (Back-UPS XS 1400U), in addition to the ability to connect up to 6 devices, allows you to monitor the status of the device using the PowerChute software via USB port.
The problem is that this software is not compatible with the server we use, since it is available in a version for personal use (Personal Edition).
So I decided to use one free port (we use another one for additional internet connection using a 4G router) to connect a UPS to it to monitor its status (this device does not have a display apart from two diodes). If we can do something more, it would be even better, but it all depends on what can be achieved using OpenWrt.
In September 2018, I wrote a few words about Windows Defender, as my default antivirus for Windows 10. It’s been a few years since I’ve used it at work (as well as the rest of the people in the company). I recommend Microsoft’s default solution built into Windows 10/11 to anyone I help with their computer.
So I decided to check if Windows Defender is still a solution worth recommending. After all, it’s free, and you have to pay for all the others, so what’s the catch?
Half jokingly, half seriously. I recently discovered what was eating up my disk space on my work computer.
Sooner rather than later the time has come when another person asks me what to do when they are running out of space on Google Photos and therefore on Gmail.
I decided to move yet another website from WordPress to Hugo. This time the website has much more traffic than any other “of mines” (the ones that I am managing).
The main reason was speed (but also recent discussion about the environment and impact of technologies on it).
Continuing my previous post “Windows 11 on Unsupported Hardware - Day by Day it’s time for further considerations.
Overall, Windows 11 is not bad. Everything is going in the right direction, but it’s not yet time for a mass switch, and here’s why.
It’s been a while since the official release of Windows 11, and it’s time to get to know it better.
Although I’ve been using Windows 11 for some time now on a virtual machine on macOS, it’s not the same, because I don’t work with it every day.
To see how everything works, I decided to update my “unsupported” computer at work, according to Microsoft, to see if it’s safe to migrate others to the new system.
Microsoft made Windows 11 available to all users worldwide on October 4, 2021. Not everyone was able to try it, especially those with older machines that do not meet requirements such as having a TPM 2.0 chip.
Well, you can install Windows 11 from scratch using an ISO image, but what about updates where we don’t want to lose our settings, programs, and games?
As announced, on October 5, 2021 (to be more precise, at the end of October 4), Microsoft officially presented the final version of Windows 11.
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