Archives: 2008 January

I frequently need to write instructions to people about doing something with their My Documents folders. So I start writing something like “Right-click on your My …” WHOA! It changes to “Right-click on you’re my” — that’s not what I want.
After suffering silently with this for years (it was only a few letters to type [...]

Give a man a fish, and he’ll have food for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll have food for life — if he works really hard at it and is lucky enough to live near fish. Give a man a job and a supermarket — now we’re talking. That’s the message I’m [...]

JungleDisk, which uses Amazon S3’s storage space for backup, looks like a promising competitor to Mozy and Carbonite. But it appears not to be targeted for server use — except for Windows Home Server, that is.

Kevin McLaughlin of CMP did just that. I said no.

Microsoft recently announced that American and Canadian customers will soon be able to buy licenses by subscription, as customers in many other parts of the world have been doing for some time. I’m already on record with my first impressions of this program, so here are my second impressions, formed after listening to today’s webcast.

There [...]

David, usually when I have Outlook open my mail comes in automatically, but now I have to hit Send/Receive every time. How do I fix this?
I get asked this question at least once a month, so I figured it was worth writing up here.
If Outlook loses its connection to the Exchange server for a while, [...]

I’m quoted today in an article at CRN.com about a forthcoming Microsoft licensing program. The new program will allow businesses to pay for software licenses on a subscription basis as opposed to an outright purchase of a perpetual license. Details of the program, which starts in March, will be released later this month. I’m not [...]

Laptop and other electronics batteries are subject to new limits. Better check these out before you board your next non-stop flight to Hong Kong with a pile of DVDs in hand. CMP has the story:
DOT Levies Lithium Battery Limit - Networking - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness

I tried to open a Microsoft Word document that I had stored in a Groove 2007 workspace. I got this instead:

Suggestions one and two were definitely not on track. Suggestion three was a bit problematic. How do I use the Open and Repair option for a document saved in Groove?
There may be a more [...]