Sunday, 27 March 2005

Free advice to the University of Memphis IT department

Four hints:

  • You might want to run a spyware and virus scan on the guest PC on the fourth floor of the Fogelman Executive Center. It sorely needs it.
  • Don’t try to secure your wireless network with MAC address security, particularly if you allow guest login access to a PC on the network.
  • If you do secure your wireless network with MAC address security, don’t allow known wired MAC addresses to connect wirelessly.
  • Don’t annoy your alumni by not granting gratis wireless access to guests at your own hotel. Particularly when the Holiday Inn across the street, also operated by the university, does have gratis access for its guests, and you already have wireless infrastructure in the building. (This annoyance, by the way, will be remembered when I have some money to give to various alumni associations.)

Toodles!