I was contacted by a 13 News reporter recently and asked if he could interview me for a news story they were doing. This story was in light of Google’s recent admission that they collected data about unsecured wireless access points while taking pictures around Hampton Roads for Google’s “Street View” service. Long story short, [...]
Have you ever needed to send a file to someone through e-mail but found it was too large to be attached? Perhaps this is a collection of pictures, a CAD drawing or the contents of a CD. The free service “WeTransfer” will allow you to upload your files to their servers and then distribute a [...]
You probably have at least one USB Flash Drive sitting around. There are all sorts of useful things you can do with a USB drive.
Speed up your Windows Vista / Windows 7 Computer – There is a feature called ReadyBoost present in Vista and Windows 7 that will allow you to use a USB [...]
Windows 7 is supposed to address most of Windows Vista’s shortcomings. From what I’ve seen, it looks like Windows 7 is going to be all the things that Windows Vista was supposed to be. I’ve got it installed on a few different systems now and I’m pleased with what I’m seeing.
1.) Windows 7 [...]
I don`t even know how many times I’ve sent an e-mail along on its way and then thought `"DOH!, I forgot the attachment!" Wanting to quickly recall the message, but alas it is already too late. I end up sending the obligatory "OOPS!" message explaining my folly…
Hail the Missing [...]
Noun
S: (n) Google (a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user’s search)
Verb
S: (v) Google (search the Internet (for information) using the Google search engine) "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day" [...]
Warning: This is a technical rant…
I was recently configuring – or rather – trying to configure, a customer’s Palm Centro Smartphone to sync Outlook (Exchange) information with their shiny new SBS08 Server. I quickly realized that this can prove to be a lesson in futility…
The first thing to know is that, for whatever reason, the [...]
Its obvious that the Internet is a great information tool. The purpose of a Search Engine like Google is to help us to find this information more quickly. Sometimes knowing how to find an answer to something is just as important as actually knowing the answer…
The most simple example is the usage of a [...]
Now I just love this. This RFC (Request for Comment) states the 12 fundamental networking truths. This stuff is hilarious in a "so-true" kind of way.
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Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This [...]
Towards the end of the year we usually spend some time going through our various client’s systems’ checking and double-checking on things. I was doing some check-ups and found a Windows 2000 Server that had an uptime of 427 days!!! That is, the server has been online, without a reboot for this duration!
(Below is the [...]
