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

Windows 7 error 86

Windows 7 & Windows 2000  –  Error 86 when mapping drives. One of my upgrades this week to Windows 7 was from a Windows XP laptop. Following  the steps I outlined in my previous post the initial process was a breeze!  No problems at all!!  Simple, some would say,  and as everything else goes as soon as “they” said it … Read more

Friday Funny: Service?

Happy Friday!!  This week’s Friday Funny is a short and quick funny I got the other day in my e-mail.. Made me giggle. Yes I said giggle. And snort, I think I snorted once.  😀 Enjoy! Service? I was confused when I heard the word service used with these agencies: Internal Revenue Service U.S. Postal Service Telephone Service Cable or … Read more

Got an iPhone? Better turn it off!

I just followed a tweet over to Mashable and read another article about the latest Apple security flaw. This time affecting the iPhone. Cybersecurity researchers, Charlie Miller and Collin Mulliner, have identified a vulnerability in the iPhone OS that will allow an attacker to take control of the Phone via a SMS message.  They have, supposedly, notified Apple more than … Read more

Zune HD Video!

Hi. As they say on twitter, I’m “the guy” with a Zune. Well, one of them anyway. Microsoft has recently officially announced the release of a new Zune this Fall. The Zune HD! Some of Features of the new Zune include: a Touch Screen with multi-touch navigation. This is a 3.3-inch screen and has a vivid 16:9 OLED display (480×272 … Read more

Remote Desktop Slow in Vista

I am using my Vista Ultimate machine primarily now for day-to-day work.. And everything is running quite smoothly to be honest. No crashes, no freezes, no spyware.. Everything is great. I help manage SEVERAL servers across my WAN and use Remote Desktop to great effect. But, last week a new Server was added. I logged in with my trusty Remote … Read more