Productivity increase by blocking non-project related sites is one of the myth that I’ve seen a lot on various online forums and as well there are always counter research data as to this has nothing to do with ‘increase in productivity’. I guess, I kinda agree too (Well, I know one of the leading IT companies who doesn’t give computers with internet access to any employee and only the lead/manager has it, that too re...

When I started off this site, this was rather a note to self kinda thing and over years I learnt that people actually do visit my site. So recently, very very recently I signed up for Google Analytics to see how much really is the traffic onto this blog. Prior to that, I thrived to avoid adwords/analytics etc, just ‘coz it was of no interest to me; remember, this was a blog to self and was never intended to do b...

  How often do you update the drivers for the computer/notebook? I did a Google search of this and found out 2 interesting things about it; 1. Users prefer not to update their drivers and the main reason is they are vary of issues that might happen once the new drivers are installed. 2. Users think of driver update the same way as Windows Update, in fact; I saw couple of forum comments mentioning about...

Continuation to the last post of MPF on Cisco ASA series, Juniper’s nextGen firewalls (SRX series that run JunOS software) can also be used for blocking unwanted sites. While SRX supports integration to SurfControl/WebSense etc, this post is more focused on the inbuilt capabilities just like what Cisco’s ASA had. UTM feature (Unified Threat Management) is integrated into SRX devices. So in order to block a site(s); ...