80GHZ microwave antenna alignment (and other mm-wave radios)
Recently we had a teaching moment for a couple of folks who had not had much experience with aligning higher frequency antennas with very tight beamwidths. This particular day we were aligning 2 foot Siklu 80GHZ antennas. One of the questions …
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Some firewall and switch work
Some dell servers going in for a client. Cisco 3063 switches, Palo Alto firewalls. The yellow and red power cables denote A and B power.
From the IoT world: Bicycles
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Google voice to do away with voicemail-to-text
As reported on Cnet Google will apparently be removing a Google Voice feature over carriers’ efforts to fight robocalls. In a message shared on Twitter by journalist Brian Krebs, the company has seemingly begun alerting users that by the end …
Defcon News: Vulnerable Windows Drivers
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Another privacy story: Facebook transcribes audio chats
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/08/13/200217/facebook-paid-contractors-to-transcribe-users-audio-chats Facebook has been paying hundreds of outside contractors to transcribe clips of audio from users of its services, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the work.
FBI to monitor and collect Social Media Data
I am sure this has been going on for awhile, but now it is being ramped up. https://www.zdnet.com/article/fbi-seeks-to-monitor-facebook-oversee-mass-social-media-data-collection/ The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is planning to aggressively harvest information from Facebook and Twitter, a move which is likely to …
EMP Shielded Data Center preview – Lifeline Data Centers
From our friends over at Lifeline Data Centers We’re making incredible progress on our new, state of the art Data Center located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We’re looking forward to meeting local press, officials, and the business community so we’re …
Quick tidbit on Cambium GPS sync source
Synchronization source– Synchronization mode supports two types of timing sources: the timing signal provided by a Cambium Network’s Cluster Management Module (CMM) or by the AP’s own on-board GPS receiver. Both these sources require GPS Synchronization capable AP hardware and …