In an odd turn of events, a now former IT director gave the passwords of the Cisco routers and switches he managed for San Francisco's Wide-Area-Network, after being jailed since July 13th (nice day to go in).  

This old TechTV video gives you tips to figure out if your kids might be computer hackers. A must view for any concerned parent.

I was wrong about the facelift - it didn't come as expected, but hopefully at least a template change will happen this year.

JMRTechnet.com may be getting a facelift before 2007. There are many plans in the works, including the conversion of JMRTechnet to a different CMS or even a modified version of Wordpress.

JMRTechnet.com has lasted 2 years! For the author, time has just flown by.

A professor of anatomy at large university, had a website developed by students for the class of 217, ends up serving over 250 thousand visitors!

There continue to be problems with Windows XP SP2, as Microsoft programmers have finally released a patch to stop the vulnerability that has existed since October, 2004 which allows for a computer to be taken over via Microsoft Internet Explorer.

JasonMichael of JMRTechnet.com Makes Top 100 List of top scorers of Pac-Man, over at AlbinoBlackSheep.com's Pac-Man game.

Rice University in Texas, reported that a security flaw was found in Google's new desktop search utility.

www.NetIdiot.com was started in August of 2004, and is slowly becoming a popular viewing site of blog savy web surfers to keep up to date with the latest Internet scemes and scams.

The creators of Globus Toolkit are creating a company to introduce Grid computing to the business world. 

Cybersource Corporation, predicts that December 14th, 2004, will be this years biggest online shopping day.

Univeristy of Alberta researchers have discovered a way to create a computer chip that uses hundreds of times less energy than computer chips made with current chip making processes.

QFilter, developed by the students and staff of Penn State University, is a utility that acts much like a firewall, as it filters queries to a database.

Penn State University's Information Techonolgy Services department urged its 80,000 students to stop using Internet Explorer, due to constant security threats.

As Walmart begins its implementation of RFID, tracking groceries and merchandise as they arrive from vendors to their stores, what is to stop professional criminals or snoopers from scanning our trash for RFID information?

Kingston developed a memory tester, they call the KT2400 Dynamic Burn-In Tester, which is able to put memory through stringent tests and determine if a memory module is defective or prone to ELF - Early-Life Failure.

Intel's website speaks of ways in which the concept of 'Location Aware Computing' can save a company money by tracking assets and employees.

A new type of Brain Computer Interface (BCI) will allow for greater freedom of injured or handicapped patients.

Yahoo will release a beta version of a desktop search utility to compete with a similar utility already released by Google, and also will compete with Microsoft's upcoming OS release.

For $999, RNK Telecom is offering customers a lifetime of service to its U.S. customers.

U.S. law is against commercial spam, but the laws allow for spam seeking "souls" and not money.

While the big players try to agree on a standard for the new DVD formats, Disney supports Blu-Ray.

Three video game stores, part of a chain Chain in D.C. Shutdown For Microsoft Copyright Infringement.

Next time you're shopping around for a burgular alarm or pet sitter, consider buying a robot to do the job.

The slow growth in IT spending in 2005, predicted by research firm IDC, will make 2005 a challenging year for IT vendors.

KnowledgeStorm, a highly regarded search engine in the IT field, has teamed up with PostNewsWeek Tech Media in order to reach more government technology customers.

An unprecedented move has taken place on Ebay - Jeremy Wright, a known blogger, has put himself on the auction block at Ebay.

CompTIA will be offering an RFID certification and training class that will cover the technical aspects of how the technology works and how to implement it.

Yahoo Toolbar with Anti-Spy allows for PC users to prevent spyware from being installed, without upgrading to XP SP2.

Walmart set its deadline of having RFID in place by January 1, 2005.  Already, Walmart reports that 100 suppliers are ready to meet this requirement.  200 more will be ready in 2006.

JMRTechnet's, Jason Michael, authors Part 2 of his series on how to create a simple, PHP content management system.

JMRTechnet begins a series on creating your own content management system using PHP.

JMRTechnet.com presents a new tutorial with scripts for secure logins.

JMRTechnet offers its visitors a special deal on web hosting.  $1.50 per year - Offer good until August 31, 2004.

This news item discusses Phishing schemes and how WholeSecurity has developed software technology to fight them.

Microsoft's newest upgrade for Windows XP has been released, and within hours problems have been reported with various incompatibilities with users' current software.  Users of XP should do research on the problems associated with SP2 before considering an upgrade, in order to know what they should expect.

This article announces the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2.

After reworking some of the code for JMRTechnet's Content Management System (CMS), visitors of our site may now contact the staff.

eWeek reports that salaries for tech workers are a bit higher if they have Linux skills and a certification to prove it.

After hours of downtime, totalling over a couple days, JMRTechnet.com moved to another server.

After a couple months of using a semi-descent template for jmrtechnet's main page, the web designers of jmrtechnet agreed upon a layout that would further optimize and beautify the website.

History was made when, jmrtechnet.com, published to the World Wide Web, its first technical tutorial on PHP.

As the growth of JMR Technet picks up its pace, we are nearing the completion of the Technical Tutorials section. 

History was in the making, as the JMR Technet's first technical tip was published here, online.

JMR Technet will soon be offering technical tips on Windows, Linux, Networking, Hardware, Software, and Web Programming!

Adware is becoming an increasingly hot issue with a small IT Department in Ann Arbor.

The "Outer Links" is jmrtechnet's collection of technical links on a variety of topics. 

The website, jmrtechnet.com, has been in the planning and development stage for several weeks, but is now available on a limited basis.