Seems like a definition update for Microsoft Security Essentials has broken it on Windows XP. Found this error on our XP test machine this morning. Microsoft has announced that they will provide definition updates for MSE on Windows XP until July of 2015, so what is going on here? Tried […]
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I was content simply using the Verizon provided Actiontec Router at the head of my home network until I logged into my Verizon account and saw this: This is wrong on a number of levels. First, the Verizon e-mail account I’m forced to create when I got Verizon FiOS is […]
Getting ready to move local Exchange services off the LAN and to the Cloud, but wait… how are any applications on other machines going to send mail when the Exchange server is gone? It’s certainly not going to work trying to get Microsoft or Google to relay our internal mail. […]
Several of our customers with domains run on SBS 2008, a decent option for those wanting Exchange on-site. However, a few servers that have been in service for a while had started to alert our Nagios server that space on their C: partitions was getting low. On one server, we […]
Have an iPhone and a Windows PC? Still using a cable to copy photos from your iPhone to your PC? There is a better way! With the launch of Apple’s iCloud, you can have all your photos from your iPhone or iPad download to your PC automatically and shed the […]
Solid State Drives (SSD) are fast, but are small and expensive. When building a new machine, how do you balance speed with storage needs? If money was no object, you could purchase one (or more) large SSDs. A more sane approach would be to use a SSD for Windows (C:) […]