Schlagwort: ‘Internet’
Software Freedom Day and One Web Day 2024
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In our increasingly digital world, there are two important awareness days that underscore the importance of free and accessible digital spaces: Software Freedom Day and One Web Day. This year, the two awareness days took place on the same weekend, which is why we would like to dedicate this blog post to both days.
IT-Bites: Quick Fixes
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In the age of digitalization, IT problems are an everyday nuisance that can cause significant disruption for both individuals and businesses. However, the good news is that many of these problems can be fixed with simple and quick solutions. In this blog post, we take a look at some of the most common IT problems and offer practical tips on how to fix them quickly.
Data Privacy on the Internet: Protect Your Privacy
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In our digital age, digital data has become the most valuable asset. Every click, every search query, every ‘Like’ are collected and analysed. For many companies, this data is of inestimable value, for example in order to better understand target groups, place personalised advertising, etc. However, while companies can use this data to boost their business, criminals also have a keen interest in such data, as any of this information can potentially be used to cause harm. From identity theft to financial losses – the risks are numerous. Protecting your own data is therefore more important than ever before. In this blog post, we would like to give you a few suggestions on how you can protect your privacy on the internet.
“Help, I’ve deleted the internet!”
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Do you know any such experts who have deleted the Internet from their PC? How did they come to think that in the first place? It often happened by mistake that you deleted the icon of the browser you were using (often Internet Explorer in the past) – and thus the usual way of opening “the Internet”. But is it even possible to delete the internet? In this blog post, we want to get to the bottom of this myth.
New SSID – RWTH institutes – in the WLAN
RWTH Aachen University offers wireless data communication (via WLAN) to all WLAN enabled devices throughout the university. This WLAN service is offered by WLAN access points.
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These access points broadcast one or more SSID’s, which the devices can connect with and thus get internet access. The term SSID stands for Service Set Identifier and is simply the name of a WLAN network. RWTH offers many SSID’s such as:
- eduroam for students, employees and guests of participating institutes
- RWTH-guests for quests without an eduroam identification
- RWTH-devices for IoT devices, e.g. measuring instruments and sensors
Green Surfing on the World Wide Web
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Google is probably the most popular search engine in the world.
Since 2004, the verb “to google” has even been in the German Duden dictionary. This is of course because Google is the big player in the search engine business. In 2022, Google became one of the most valuable companies in the world with a brand value of around 819.6 billion US dollars (source: statista.com).
But there are green alternatives that we can set up as our default search engine – after all, every query consumes electricity and increases our CO₂ footprint.
