YWAM IT is a community where you can discuss IT and Web issues as they relate to your ministry and non-profit. Through greater cooperation as a mission in these important areas we believe that we can have a greater impact in the nations.
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In the beginning of the year my private webspace got hacked. I'm glad that it wasn't the webspace of our YWAM base for that I am also responsible. But out of this experience I learned some things and wanted to share them with you.
What happened?
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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
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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
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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 loo
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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
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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-site
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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 target
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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 th
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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
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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 ...
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