If you like Jazz, then you need to check out the latest CD from the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra. This CD titled, BLUES MAN FROM MEMPHIS, contains "more from the Musical Mind of Donald Brown" and features John Clayton, Stefon Harris & Gregory Tardy. CD tracks: Nancy and the Children's Playground Blues for Brother Jerome Theme for Malcolm Daddy's Girl Cynthia New York The Scenic Route to Donny's Heart The Thing About George Coleman Peace for Zim This really is a great group and … [Read more...]
CA Arcserve version 9.0 and IE 7
I ran across an interesting error on a client's server this past week. Their nightly backup had begun crashing without any reported cause. The results of the last back-up simply said crashed. The logs did not show any clear reason why this would be happening. Other than they had several instances of "Bad media" reported in some of their last actual back-up attempts. Side note: Pay more attention to your back-ups people!! if you start seeing "Crashed" errors. Don't wait a month … [Read more...]
MAC Security? Oh my, Oh my…
I got a note this morning about an interesting article over at IT Security. It's been called one of the safest operating systems of all time, but Mac's OS X Tiger may not be as safe as it seems. This list provides its top security issues and how to plug them. They've just released a report detailing some "Holes" in the OS X Tiger Operating system. They've given some suggestions on how to plug these holes. If you're a MAC user or a thinking about being a MAC user … [Read more...]
Exporting FireFox Book Marks
One of the things with this Vista machine is the fact that I didn't have all my trusty book marks from FireFox any longer. It's easy to get your Favorites from Internet Explorer... just copy the Favorites folder in your user profile to the new machine and you're done. But, FireFox.... there's no file to copy for them. But, luckily in FireFox it's easy as well. … [Read more...]
Vista… Still Going….
Software installation update.... Here's my installation update for 3/19/07: Installed: Quickbooks 2007 Installed Perfectly.. No problems Adobe Acrobat version 6 Don't do it. This is a pig. won't work. Use version 8 Macromendia Studio MX 2004 All works well. DreamWeaver needs permission to run each time.. Have to check on that Flash.. no problems FreeHand... Wunderbar Fireworks... Changes video mode of Vista to "Basic" while running then changes it back on exit. Otherwise. … [Read more...]
Vista Ready?!
Ok.. I'm ready. I have a machine built and Vista Ultimate installed. I used the following hardware for this new PC: ASUS P5W64-WS Professional Motherboard Intel 2.4 ghz Core2Duo Processor 2 Gig Kingston DDR2 800mhz RAM ASUS 7900 GS (NVidia) Video adapter Plextor PX-755SA Dual Layer DVD/CD writer Two Western Digital 500 gig SATA drives in RAID 1 I chose the ASUS board because of the 1066 mhz Front side Bus and DDR2 800 mhz RAM support. And, because I like ASUS, their boards are … [Read more...]
Supporting Vista!
Since I've started having clients asking me about upgrading to Windows Vista. And, come to find out, I have to assist in the upgrading of an entire office network to Windows Vista I decided that I need to immerse myself in this new OS. You know.. since 1/2 my business is about PC support. Might want to know about this. Ya think. So, I am going to build myself a new computer with Windows Vista Ultimate. I'm doing a new PC because of the support issue. As it stands currently, 90% of … [Read more...]