Archive for March, 2007
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
A Friendly Reminder for Daylight Saving Time
It is coming this weekend… are you ready? IT consultants have been scrambling for the past two weeks to complete the necessary transitions in this “mini-Y2K” and no doubt will be burning the midnight oil this weekend, thanks to the usual last-minute customer calls. Here is a quick list of valuable links to educate yourself [...]
Comments Off - Posted in Daylight Savings, IV General Posts, Productivity, Reference, Software, Technology Planning by Jake Carey-Rand
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Microsoft Trounced Again; This Time by the FAA
Although it’s not yet a done deal, David Bowen (CIO of the FAA) said recently that he’s taking a very close look at Google’s application offering (to be run on Linux), in place of Microsoft’s Office Suite and Windows Vista. The idea is to have Dell (the FAA’s primary hardware vendor) supply them with PC’s [...]
No Comments » - Posted in IV General Posts, Microsoft, Software, Technology Upgrades, Vista by Jake Carey-Rand
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
I Just Proved the Importance of Backing Up Your Data!
You may or may not have noticed that our blog was down for a short time recently and just came back online. It went down when we tried upgrading the backend of the system and it didn’t match up well with the database. However, thanks to a backup of the data (both in a SQL [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Disaster Planning, Disaster Recovery, IV General Posts by Jake Carey-Rand
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
DOT says NO to Vista, Office 2007 and IE7; Just the Beginning?
Well, here we go… Chalk up another stumbling block for Microsoft to hurdle in its plans of world domination. They were hoping organizations would begin to upgrade to Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7 by now, however apparently the Federal Government doesn’t agree. I’m sure Microsoft didn’t appreciate hearing Daniel Mintz (CIO for [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in IV General Posts, Microsoft, Software, Technology Upgrades, Vista by Jake Carey-Rand
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
NetVibes2Go
Of all the things to come out of “Web2.0” (some useful and some entirely useless), I think one of my favorites is NetVibes. For organizing your RSS feeds from across the web (i.e. blogosphere, news sites, product reviews, email, weather, etc.), NetVibes is a wonderful tool I’ve been using for about 10 months. I have [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Aggregators, IV General Posts, Internet, Productivity, Reviews, Software, Startups, Web2.0 by Jake Carey-Rand
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
ThinkPad Battery Recall; again…
“The defect occurred in the joint design of the battery packs, not because of an internal battery cell problem,” this according to spokespeople from both Lenovo and Sanyo (thanks to Reuters for the clip). Just a quick note to anyone who wasn’t caught up in the large-scale Sony battery recall last year: turn over your [...]
