I am planning to re-design the wireless network at our YWAM base and need some advice from people with experience and expertise.

We own a two story brick building at the far edge of the city where the only internet service currently available to us is ADSL over our single telephone line. We have a consumer grade D-Link DSL router

Tablets are all over the place. More and more apps are developed and the existing ones getting better and better. There are tablets (and phones) with dual core processors available. The platform and raw numbers might not be directly comparable to those of desktop processors. Still, we can see quite some process. It's almost everything one needs on the go.
The question come to mind, do we actually still need a laptop? I think, it's a question worth thinking about. Of course, a tablet can not replace all computing needs. But what is it, we need on the go?

After not having used Facebook, let alone any of the earlier expressions of social networking like MySpace, I thought I'll have a look at Google+. So far so good. What can I say, it works. Whether it's good or not so good I cannot tell, since I have nothing to compare it to, besides maybe having looked over the shoulders of those using Facebook.
Who here is using it, what do you think about it? How does it compare to other social platforms? What do you think is missing?

About a week ago the FTC (US Federal Trade Commission) has approved for Microsoft to take over Skype. Depending on who you ask, this is either good or bad news. Skype might be available on service where, so far, it's not. Integrated in some Microsoft software, most likely it will work very well with these. Also, added service to XBox will attract some people towards the platform.

I have seen a few ministry blogs out there running on free services. Some of these services, like Wordpress.com, occasionally put advertisements on these services if you are using the free services. While this might sound like a good deal, it’s not…

Don’t run contextual ads on your ministry web-sites!

What can we learn from the recent attacks that target big companies like Sony, IMF, Google, Governments, etc. Has that any impact for YWAM, missions, or Christianity in general?
Of course, we could say that these companies, agencies, and even individuals that got attacked are all high-profile targets for cyber criminals. Of what internest could YWAM really be, let alone an email account of someone of a Base Leadership Team somewhere in the world?

What is the "perfect" network layout for a YWAM Base? Well, I guess we all agree that there is no such thing as a "perfect" set-up. I believe, however, that we all had those moments when we thought this or that is/would be "perfect". On the the other hand most, if not all, of us probably had more then enough of those "oh-no-this-is-useless" moments. Recently I set out on the quest to find out what these "oh-noes" (in the context of a YWAM Base) are and what can be done to avoid them.

Some time ago, I wrote an article called Authentication: Is he who he says he is?, based on the technical fact the faking the sender's email address is rather simple.

How can we educate the user to learn the right degree of (dis)trust when treating with emails (or telephone calls)? We need to be a culture of trust, yet be resistant to social engineering. Do you have policies concerning this matter?

The use of technology in our mission is growing. As we look at how we can best make use of technology in YWAM we all bring our own strengths and experiences. This site is one way that we can discuss and share what we have learned, but I want to try to expand this discussion ...

I got a really interesting telephone call, today. It was someone with an Indian English accent claiming to be from Microsoft, and warning that my computer was continuously downloading dangerous viruses. I was suspicious. You see, Microsoft doesn't do that. (See http://www.microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/msname.aspx for a statement from them saying so.)