The Schlog

I’ve just posted a copy of my WISP to my web site. If your company does business in Massachusetts and you have no idea what I’m talking about, you might want to read the rest of this post, which I created as a guide for small business IT consultants like myself.
How to Help a Small [...]

The DNS system is great because it means you don’t have to remember the IP addresses of all the web pages in the world. You do, however, have to remember the IP addresses of the DNS servers. For most people, this isn’t a problem because DNS is generally a set-and-forget kind of thing. So if [...]

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One of the neat features about Windows Home Server is the ability to restore a hard drive from scratch. If you check out the help files, you will learn that the process is as simple as booting the dead PC from a special CD and following the on-screen instructions. Yeah, right.
The most common problem people [...]

Just got my first voicemail-transcribed-to-e-mail on my new Google Voice account. How cool – someone can leave me a message and what they say is converted to text and sent to me. And it works perfectly. Here’s the text of the message I got:
hi my name is angie and i’m calling from kind of mark [...]

A month ago I performed a fresh install of Windows 7 RC1 (32-bit) on an HP tc4200 tablet PC (Pentium M 1.86 GHz, 1.5 GB RAM, 120 GB HDD with two existing partitions including XP operating system partition).
Some things that caught my attention during the install and setup process:

The upgrade advisor indicated I would have [...]

After installing Windows 7 on my HP tablet, I lost the ability to use my mobile phone as a modem. Getting the average AT&T Wireless support rep to understand my problem and give me the information I needed was not going to happen. Fortunately, I found this post:
Tethering Moto Q 9H with AT&T – [...]

Working with computers is easy. Working with people working with computers is hard.

I play it pretty safe when it comes to web surfing and rarely venture to sites with unknown or questionable reputations. But just now I was on Facebook and after clicking a link I saw these two windows appear:

Having spent lots of time eradicating “Personal Antivirus” from computers that should have been protected [...]

Microsoft partners (e.g., consultants like me) often get their knickers in a twist about perceived slights by Microsoft to the partner community. A recent example is the move by Microsoft to offer on-line services to small businesses using the partner community as sales agents earning a small commission rather than true resellers who are able [...]