Google Website Backup
Google offers a lot of things, and I mean a lot, but this isn’t really one of them. And yet, in a fashion they do.
A good friend of mine recently lost a rather good blog post due to a server issue (it was on a Linux box, so I’m not sure how that could ever happen [...]
Amusing Computer Quotes, Part II
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“The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That’s where we come in; we’re computer professionals. We cause accidents.”
- Nathaniel Borenstein
“The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn’t get bigger or heavier.”
- Bill Gates
“In all large [...]
Verizon Survey – Not!
Five days after I switched to AT&T, I received an e-mail from Verizon with the request: “Please tell us how we can improve”.
I thought I would let them know they might try having a better selection of smart phones (sorry, 19 different flavors of Blackberry only count as one), letting customers know when more suitable [...]
Out of Band Windows Update
As you may or may not know, Microsoft releases patches every second Tuesday of the month so that businesses can plan on having a regular update schedule.
This week Microsoft released two critical patches one for Internet Explorer and the other to fix code generated by Visual Studio. Since this is outside of their normal release cycle, it’s [...]
Gmail Unleashed
Great googly moogly! After five years Gmail (and Apps) is no longer in beta. And instead of yelling it from the rooftops (since many businesses won’t rely on beta products) they are just mumbling it quietly.
I guess Google doesn’t need the business since they are pretty much just printing money at this point.
Your Own Blog as a Resource
I thought I’d share the irony: for the second time this week I’ve used my own blog as a resource. Once for Exchange 2007 logging and then today to find the wireless key viewer link.
At least someone finds it useful ;-)
SaaS and Cloud Computing
I happened upon an interesting article by my favorite tech curmudgeon, John C. Dvorak, in PC Magazine. In the July 2008 issue (yes, I’m still way behind on my magazines), he puts together a list of good reasons why “the future” of computing, namely SaaS and Cloud Computing is just another way to make even more [...]
It’s Linux too
Just back from a long a trip to Panama which was eventful yet fun.
On the first airplane leaving SFO I was watching the spinning hourglass on the entertainment screen in the seat in front of me. The captain then told us the system was experiencing some issues and they would be rebooting it.
So they did, three times. I snapped a pic [...]
Amusing Computer Quotes
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“Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.”
– Anonymous
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
– Isaac Asimov
”Science is supposedly the method by [...]
Only one DC?
Okay, maybe this is a soapbox item, but I’ve been to too many companies with only one domain controller.
Most of these companies have a full system backup running, but upon complete failure a restore will take a few hours minimum. One such outage and the cost of labor to pay an IT professional to restore [...]