Yearly Archives: 2010

6 posts

SBS 2003 Server running out of disk on C:

Bad Partitioning Decisions: Pruning

Many old Dell Servers with Windows 2003 Server or SBS 2003  pre-installed were shipped with 10-12GB Primary Partiton (C:) and the rest to (D:) .  Just a few years later, many System Administrators are dealing with a near panic level of space remaining on the Primary Partition (C:). Why was […]

iPhone 3GS and 4 after 3G Microcell

AT& T 3G MicroCell

I’ve had my iPhone 3GS for about a year. I love the phone, but reception at our office is horrible leading to an unacceptable number of dropped calls. Enter the new AT&T 3G Microcell. Complaining that I have to pay $149.99 for the Microcell when AT&T should provide service at […]

Google Apps

Consider these three scenarios: 1. You are running Microsoft Small Business Server 2000 or 2003 that, while initially state-of-the-art, now requires an increasing amount of labor each month to maintain. -Disk space runs low due to the growing number of e-mails, documents, spreadsheets, and images being stored on the server. […]

Google Goggles

Last December Google announced an application that would utilize cameras on mobile phones (iphones, Androids and other smartphones). This application was called Google Goggles. What is Google Goggles? Google Goggles is an application that uses pictures you have taken with your mobile phone and searches the web for information on that picture. For instance, if you took […]

Cockroaches in a computer

Dust out your computer!!

Dust and dirt inside your computer can cause fans to stop working and hinder airflow.  Lack of proper cooling can result is overheating which may lead to hardware failure. Who knows what may lurk inside your computer?  The machine below was actually brought to our shop for service.     […]