For the second time since they opened in 1990, I was talked into going to Universal Studios in Orlando. It took all of 10 minutes to remember why I hadn’t been back. (cue flashback fog) The two things that stood out from my last visit were the pointless herding of visitors by employees and the [...]
Today, I had to build a computer for delivery on Tuesday for a very good customer of mine. He really likes using zip drives, so I offered to move his existing Zip 250 into his new computer. I was ripping the old computer apart anyway to copy the old hard drive onto a partition in [...]
Today’s job involves rebuilding a PC based voice mail system that was struck by lightning. I was hoping to get lucky and find merely a bad power supply, but Thor was not smiling when he smote this old box and it looks like the mobo took the hit too. This is going to be so [...]
I spent some time this morning chasing down an odd problem. I got a call from one of my customers regarding a puzzling email issue. For at least a month, he’s had no luck sending email from Outlook. The send dialog would sit forever trying to deliver a stack of phantom messages (i.e. not from [...]
Back to tackling the recalcitrant VM/386 system for me. I went back into the warzone with a primary plan and three backup plans. In that I was still unsure of the health of the dumb terminals and the complete lack of response to anything plugged into the Digiboard, I decided I needed to cover my [...]
Two weeks ago, I finally quit procrastinating about updating my Antivirus software. I’d been running Norton Systemworks 2002 for a while and the updates expired in late June. My intentions were to remove Systemworks and install the latest release of Norton Antivirus. I’ve been holding back only because it seems that about a third of [...]
Have I mentioned lately I still love DOS? I have a new customer. They are running VM/386 with two Wyse Link MC-5 terminals. The application is a homegrown accounting system running on Clarion Professional Developer. Have I mentioned that I started my business developing software using CPD? Living in the lightning capital of the world [...]
Tech: Microsoft Shared Fax Service Platform: Windows Small Business Server 2003 Gotcha: Trust Relationship between computer and server I have this love/hate relationship with Microsoft’s products. They do some things extremely well, but it seems all too often the I get a glimpse of the dark side and it scares the hell out of me. [...]
I’ve been self-employed for over ten years. Over that time, I have provided a changing mix of technology oriented services to my customers. Troubleshooting, networking, website design, programming – whatever they need as long as the checks clear. I’m still pretty passionate about providing good service to my customers, but I’m finding I run into [...]
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