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Back Up Your Data: Why & How? Lunch & Learn to benefit Get On Board Skateboarding – Tuesday July 28th 2015

Back Up Your Data: Why and How? The proceeds of this Lunch and Learn event benefit the Get On Board Skateboarding program, empowering children with autism. Tuesday, July 28th 2015 at JoJo's on 22, 7800 Allentown Blvd, Harrisburg 17112. Click the ticket image above to reserve your seat today! A Molnar Home Computing Lunch & Learn event to benefit Get On Board Skateboarding The most important aspect of MHC's Lunch and Learn events is that they're about more than helping people to understand and use technology: at their core, these events are designed to benefit reputable charitable organizations in [...]

2017-09-06T21:06:17-04:00By Charles|

Finding MAC Addresses: Consoles, PCs & More

Finding MAC Addresses: The Talk In the first part of this three part series, we discussed MAC (Media Access Control) addresses. We learned that computers are full of address information. We learned that the MAC address can be thought of as the hardware address of a computer, gaming console, phone or tablet. In fact, just about every device that can communicate on a network has a MAC address. We learned that a MAC address consists of twelve characters (hexadecimal numbers) from 0 to 9 and A to F. These twelve characters are represented as six pairs. Each pair is traditionally [...]

2017-09-06T21:06:18-04:00By Charles|

MAC Address: It Isn’t 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino

MAC Addresses: The Talk Computer systems are full of addresses. Some of them look like regular numbers to the human eye (192.168.1.1) and some of them look a little more complex (2bb1:db8:85a3::8a2e:fa53:7b3c). There are others less complex ( 7255: F13B) but still just as meaningless to the average eye. Our computer systems need these addresses for the same reason humans need addresses: to find things. We use addresses daily to find work, home, friends' houses and school. Having a street name and a number associated with a city and zip code helps us find our way. We also use addresses within the [...]

2013-08-23T11:10:16-04:00By Charles|