Eric Njimegni's IT Blog

  “Big Data" collects all aspects of your personal interactions on websites, mobile devices, and even IoT.   I have personally had experience where my personal information was collected on websites or mobile phones. Sometimes when I am having a conversation about an item I want, and the think I see on my phone an ad of that same item pops up. If I search for an item on amazon I receive an ad via email of the same item from eBay, and sometimes Intergram displays an ad of the same item.   You never know what information they collect, and they collect your personal information, personally I think they should not be allowed to collect the information they collect from users. Some applications track and store your locations and your browsing behavior or history, and you do not know who they share it with or how they handle the information. If it is possible to stop this, I want to say something should be done to limit the amount of information they collect, how they colle...

  Most recent Cybersecurity attacks: 2022     British Council data breach   The British Council, which provides English language courses to students worldwide, experienced a third-party data breach revealing more than 10,000 records. Researchers discovered an unprotected Microsoft Azure blob repository and reported the incident on the 5th of December 2021.       The blob container (a group of data held in the cloud) was indexed by a public search engine. Clario Tech reported in a Mackeeper blog that the blob contained at least 144k xls , xlsx, xml, and Json files.       The datasets held students’ personal data worldwide, including student IDs, full names, study duration, email addresses, and enrolment dates.       Any student or individual that may have been affected by the data breach should change their password straight away. They should also watch out for suspicious-looking emails and links.   The NHS Trus...

Skylum Luminar Neo vs Luminar AI. What differentiates Luminar Neo from all previous versions of Luminar is its ‘modular engine’. ‘Modules’ help to evenly distribute the load while using the various editing tools in Luminar Neo for faster image processing. This allows you to apply lots of different tools to an image without significant performance loss, with all edits saved automatically. Where this is most noticeable is when you’re using the various AI-powered tools in Luminar Neo, such as Sky AI and the new Relight AI tool. The new modular engine also uses less memory (RAM) and storage space on your computer. Users with low-powered computers who were frustrated with slow performance in Luminar AI should have a better experience with Neo.       In an ideal world, Luminar AI would have been built on this same modular engine, but for whatever reason, it wasn’t. To take advantage of the fastest version of the software yet, you need to buy Luminar Neo.   New tools to fix...

Advantages of the solid-state drive vs HDD     Fast Boot Speed:  comparing with traditional hard drive, SSD does not have such process that motor accelerate rotating.   Less time to read:  SSD does not have Hards and can be quick to random read file. Some people have done a test: two computers under the same configuration, one computer shipped with HDD spent 31 seconds from start up to desktop appearing, however, the other one shipped with SSD only use 18 Secs in the entire process .   Fragment does not affect reading time:   Because it is not relevant between seeking time and data storage place, therefore, disk fragment will not affect reading time. Faster to write: the writing speed of SSD based on DRAM is faster than HDD.   0 decibel noise:  there is no mechanical motor and fan, so, noise value is 0 decibel while working.   Lower heating:  low-volume SSD based on flash storage will keep lower level on power consumption and...