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A Host with No Backup
This week on Battle Born Tech we don’t have Linux Lee who was featured over the break. Joe’s hair on the fire is the old bug-a-boo interpreters gone wild! This one is code execution hidden in MMS text service in your phone messaging. Use RCS instead if your carrier supports it.
Nancy finds out how to leave a Zoom meeting she is a host and keep the meeting going with someone NOT on the Zoom account.
Charlie struggles with getting Windows 11 taskbar back up on the side of his monitor. There are third party programs to modify the task bar position but there is a warning it is NOT supported by official Windows API.
Kirk has a sad story about a death of a hard drive, leaving no heirs. We help him through the stages of grief for his dead hard drive. Let this be a cautionary tale for Backup: different locations, different media is mentioned.
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“I Zoom a couple times a week.”
“On your way out…it gets pretty pouting”
“It’s like a church job…unless you find your successor…you can’t leave”
“Best Used By Date for Tech Advice.”
“I guess it makes a little bit of sense.”
“Microsoft said: No!”
“Find yourself on the wrong end of an update.”
“Accidental Technology.”
“Cloud: Other People’s Computers”
“The dust is the only thing that keeps it running”
“Hammers are always good.”
“Backup! Backup! Backup!”
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BATTLE PLANS
with help from Claude.ai
SMS
Short Message Service is a text messaging standard that allows users to send and receive plain text messages of up to 160 characters over cellular networks.
MMS
Multimedia Messaging Service is a standard for sending messages that include multimedia content such as images, audio, video, and longer text over cellular networks, extending the capabilities of traditional SMS.
RCS
Rich Communication Services is a messaging protocol that upgrades traditional SMS by enabling features like high-resolution media sharing, read receipts, typing indicators, and group chats directly through a device’s native messaging app.
API
An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate and share data with each other.
Cloud
The cloud refers to a network of remote servers hosted on the internet that store, manage, and process data, allowing users to access computing resources and services from anywhere rather than relying on local hardware. Sometimes used to generically refer to the internet.
3-2-1 Backup
The 3-2-1 backup rule is a data protection strategy that recommends keeping three copies of your data, stored on two different types of media, with one copy kept offsite to protect against hardware failure, disasters, or other data loss.
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