ROBERT OWEN — Technology Leader & Musician
Technology leadership, music, and the space where they overlap

Jazz Anyone??

by

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 … Read more

CA Arcserve version 9.0 and IE 7

by

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 before asking someone for help!

We put new tapes in the drive and attempted the back-up job again. It would run the first section of the job until 5-10% then it would just stop. No errors.. Just stop..

Read more

MAC Security? Oh my, Oh my…

by

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 … Read more

Exporting FireFox Book Marks

by

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….

by

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 … Read more

Vista Ready?!

by

Ok.. I’m ready. I have a machine built and Vista Ultimate installed. I used the following hardware for this new PC:

  1. ASUS P5W64-WS Professional Motherboard
  2. Intel 2.4 ghz Core2Duo Processor
  3. 2 Gig Kingston DDR2 800mhz RAM
  4. ASUS 7900 GS (NVidia) Video adapter
  5. Plextor PX-755SA Dual Layer DVD/CD writer
  6. 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 generally fairly reliable.

Windows ultimate installed perfectly. No need to install any drivers except the RAID on the motherboard. Otherwise it looks like Microsoft has started to get their act together.

Read more