Category: Technology

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 – [...]

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 [...]

Just wanted to alert all Schlog readers to a new blog I’ve started: www.StopBuyingServers.com. That blog will focus on “cloud computing” for small businesses. If/when I find something interesting to write about that is more relevant to on-premises computing, I’ll continue to post it here.
Please forgive the extremely boring graphics at StopBuyingServers. One of these [...]

Got this ad today for the Sony VAIO Lifestyle PC, one of the new “netbook” models.

I just checked all of my suit / sport coat jacket pockets and none of them are wider than 4.75”. Add the thickness of the machine, and there’s no way they could fit anything wider than 4”. Some overcoats [...]

Five years ago, I was a relatively early adopter of Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS) 2003. One of the servers I set up back then is still going strong today. However, the self-signed certificate that the server uses for SSL transactions was set to expire five years after creation, and we just reached that mark.
The [...]