Aug - 7th
Automatically archive old email
Posted at 7:32 am | Filed Under technology
From Lifehacker: Are you sick of hitting your email server’s space limit every month and having to clean out old messages manually? The How-To Geek explains how to configure Microsoft Outlook to automatically archive old email messages onto your hard drive. For example, you could have Outlook archive all messages older than 6 months every [...]
Jul - 6th
Open source, less secure?
Posted at 4:18 pm | Filed Under technology
Disturbing article on C:net regarding a ruling affecting software radios: Mobile-gadget makers are starting to take advantage of software-defined radio, a new technology allowing a single device to receive signals from multiple sources, including television stations and cell phone networks. But a new federal rule set to take effect Friday could mean that radios built [...]
Jul - 5th
Pain-free remote access
Posted at 5:36 pm | Filed Under technology
We’re technology professionals. Whether we’re paid to do tech support, we get called upon to do it anyways. We go home for the holidays, and bring key drives with Windows patches and new software for our parents. We walk friends, neighbors, and relatives through DSL problems. We work with dodgy information, sparse details, colorful error [...]
Jun - 26th
Pulling Bluetooth
Posted at 2:55 pm | Filed Under technology
I’ve been on-call all my working life and have carried an assortment of devices – old numeric pagers, alphanumeric pagers, pagers with email gateways, old analog cell phones, early GSM phones, and now a Blackberry Pearl. When RIM released the Bluetooth-equipped 7290, I saw a LOT of requests for upgrades. Everyone wanted to be a [...]
Jun - 15th
Disruptive Email Change
Posted at 11:19 pm | Filed Under technology
I was always quite proud of my email organization – first using IMAP folders, and now an Exchange server. I had lots of folders, and spent a bit of time organizing mail items. I ran into problems quite often where an item could appear in two folders; for example, an office folder and a technology [...]
May - 25th
ReCaptcha
Posted at 2:37 pm | Filed Under technology
http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most [...]
Apr - 9th
Google Bait – automating SyncToy
Posted at 2:42 pm | Filed Under technology
Re: scheduling, you’re right the SyncToy (free) doesn’t do this from its interface, but it can be run as a Scheduled Task from Windows: “SyncToy does not provide a user interface to schedule folder pairs to run at designated times. However, there is a method to schedule tasks using the Microsoft© Windows© operating system. To [...]
Mar - 8th
Is Yahoo! making a comeback?
Posted at 9:19 am | Filed Under technology
Yahoo mail has grown on me; despite the ads, the interface is nice and I have a lot of sources that use that email address. Yahoo! messenger is still my IM of choice. Yahoo! to go looks like a nice application to distill the best of Yahoo! into a phone interface. I might set my [...]
Mar - 1st
DST
Posted at 8:02 am | Filed Under technology
Who thought that changing the times that Daylight Saving Time (note the correct spelling) was a good thing? I have an outsourced Exchange environment, 300 laptops and desktops PC running Windows XP, and 40 servers running Linux and Windows server 2003 that I’m in the process of patching. I wonder if anyone can do the [...]
Feb - 26th
More google-bait (AGP boot problems)
Posted at 7:41 am | Filed Under technology
Note to self: When you re-install Windows XP on your ECS L4VXA2 motherboard-ed system, install the drivers, the ECS service pack from www.ecs.com.tw, then remove the VIA AGP to PCI bridge. To remove, take the VIAGP.SYS and VIAGP1.SYS files from c:\windows\drivers, then uninstall and reboot. That will solve teh BSOD STOP: 0x100000EA THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER_M Additional note [...]
