May 2008 Entries
I was reading an article about why you shouldn't daisy chain UPSs. Initially, I couldn't understand why this was even article worthy. I'm thinking who in their right mind would do that. Then I thought maybe someone had leftover UPSs from a downsized company. It's finanacially smarter to buy the UPS you need than two half the runtime. On a 120V battery, 2 hours might cost you 40$ whereas 10 hours might only cost you another 20$ more. It's a no-brainer to go for the 10 hour. I know you can find them...
The other day I was called to the desk to fix someone's browser hijack. Ran Adaware and spybot and still it was hijacked. Looked through the processes in task manager and control panel add/remove programs.; I deleted everything suspicious. Still it was hijacked. If you haven't tried super antispyware yet, do try it. It was the winner. It found and destroyed the spyware. Get it at http://www.superantispyware... Just a note on Lavasoft Ad aware 2008. It does seem to be considerable faster and better...
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A laggy old PIII was my test subject yesterday. Installed xubuntu desktop v. 8.04 (a linux distribution) on it and it was browsing the internet as fast as my desktop which I am continually tweaking. It was unbelieveable. Just wiping Windows turned a reject computer into something I'd want to take home with me! Incredible. Xubuntu is available at http://www.ubuntu.com free of charge. The desktop version is 544 mb for x86 computers. The iso needs to be put on a cd. The install is a breeze. Choose guided...
Without a doubt, the best value around for techs is IEEE membership. The dues includes a subscription to Computer magazine, podcasts, online periodicals. A full-year membership is $165, but you receive so much for that amount. There are 1300 online training classes to choose from. They are tech and business related so there is something for everyone. Visit http://www.ieee.org for more details
If I were to establish a motto for my career, it would have to be "Making technical concepts understandable to my users." If someone walks away from a help desk thinking, "Huh?" then it's not a successful encounter. The department I am proud to be a member of recently won a service appreciation award. I take that as a success for us. Over the months that follow, I'll be sharing what I learn about the various technologies that we employ at my place of employment. We utilize Microsoft technologies,...