Category Archives: Computers and Internet

I tell you, some days I love Vista and on others, well not so much.   One feature that seems cool but doesn’t really prove useful is the Flip 3D feature.  Apple has one on their system that makes a lot more sense – press a button (or squeeze the side buttons on the Mighty […]

I’ve been using Vista on my desktop since it was officially released at the consumer level.  I didn’t blog about it, but my upgrade on my desktop workstation did not go well.  Generally, unless you have a large IT department doing the work, my advice is get Vista with a new machine.   Yesterday I caved and […]

The (in)famous Ted Pattison has just announced that The Ted Pattison Group will be hosting a new training class for Sharepoint 2007, starting August 27th.  This class will focus on creating solutions in Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server, without using programming.  See the details at: http://tedpattison.net/Courses/SSE301.aspx.   I’ve been to Ted’s training and found it very helpful.  […]

When I say "in your hard drive", I mean that quite literally.   We are destroying some drives for a medical customer.  Since we do not have the proper SCSI card to actually connect the drives, we’ve decided to physically destroy the drives.  One of them had a stripped screw, and we ended up folding back […]

Recently, while installing CRM on a client’s server, we discovered a "broken" SQL Server installation.  Enterprise Manager wouldn’t run, and certain SQL Services were no longer working.  In order to clear this up, I tried to do an uninstall and reinstall of SQL Server.  Unfortunately, during the uninstall, it errored out.  So I was left with a SQL […]

I complain so often about poor customer service that I thought it would be worth it to call out a company that takes servicing their customers seriously.  On June 20th I ordered a new Thinkpad T60 from Lenovo, with some very high end specs.  It shipped on June 22nd from Hong Kong and was at […]

I’ve been experimenting with subscription music services.  A while ago I started with Rhapsody, and while I despised their darn application (why not just be an add in in Windows Media Player?!), I enjoyed their service.  Unfortunately, after I converted to Windows Vista (super duper edition), I discovered that Rhapsody didn’t work with Vista.   […]

I’m pretty sure I’m not normal.  This Hitachi, um, demo of perpendicular storage technology appeals to me…   Enjoy the show, and make sure you can hear the song!