I hope folks are enjoying their weekend especially if you’re in the US with the holiday. This week starts with an apology as we had a 90 minute outage on 5/19/08. Of course, that segues nicely into some “failures” I spotted on the web this week. Don’t worry, as failure can be beneficial and lead to future successes.
Continue Reading May 25th, 2008
Have you ever wanted to see if an email item was fake, but did not want to open the item in Outlook? Sometimes it’s an email that looks real, but you’re not certain. One quick test I use to judge email is to use the message options feature, which shows the email header information.
Continue Reading May 22nd, 2008
This week’s wrap-up covers traveling, Apple tech support, web access and free digital photography resources. I suppose I could weave a scenario that involves all those topics, but I’m not. And yes, I did just mention Apple but you’ll have to read on to see how you can benefit.
Continue Reading May 18th, 2008
In this previous post, I mentioned that I was having probelms setting up my HP MediaSmart. I connected the server and a laptop to a router that wasn’t being used. Once I did this, the setup worked perfectly, and I configured it.
When I connected the server back to the network, the probelms came back. I then discovered, that if I disconnected my D-link NAS, the problem also went away.
I then tried connecting to the MediaSmart with RDP, and that works, even with the other NAS connected to the network. I am able to do everyhing, and more, through rdp that I could do through the configuration application.
There is something wrong with the configuration client. Maybe it has something to do with both the NAS and the MediaSmart being on different workgroups. Maybe the clients sees one workgroup, the one from the NAS, and then it stops looking for the MediaSmart that happens to be in a different workgroup.
Continue Reading May 17th, 2008
USB or universal serial bus has been around since the mid-nineties. Although the technology is ubiquitous, people are still confused by some USB types and limitations. I’ll admit it can be confusing, but I’m glad I no longer have to wrestle with parallel and serial ports. I’ll explain the differences and tell you how to find out which version you’re using.
Continue Reading May 15th, 2008
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