Q&A Monday: Controlling the IT Budget
Question: I am under great pressure from management to decrease our IT budget for next year, while providing the same level of services. I’ve spent time with my team trying to figure out service contracts or software upgrades to cut, what are some of the ways you’ve cut budgets? Judith R. Eastman Knoxville, TN Answer:…
Security Update: Blackberry Enterprise Software
Blackberry has announced that there is a vulnerability on their Blackberry Enterprise Server product and have released a patch to fix the vulnerability. RIM (the maker of the blackberry) has released the patch for what they are calling a high risk vulnerability and being that it is being classified as “high risk”, it is recommended…
Q&A Monday: Hold onto spare parts?
Question:
Jim,
I have a boss that constantly wants us to keep computer equipment, even though most of it is trash. He claims that the parts will come in handy if we need them down the line, but we have some computer parts for over 10 years, does it really pay to hold on to technology?
Linux still for the Über Geek?
When I first tried getting into Linux almost 10 years ago, I found that is was hard to learn from the world of Windows that I had grown up learning. If I haven’t mentioned in the past, I have a horrible memory which makes remembering new commands in a OS I didn’t use often,…
Bad Manager Behaviors
This week I started thinking about the bad managment behaviors that could quickly kill the moral of your workers. Luckily, I’ve dodged this bullet and havn’t had any horrible managers, but have seen my share of them and the havoc they bring on their teams. Some of these problems can be worked on and corrected and…
Safe Web Browsing Myths
More often than not, if you are reading articles from this site, you consider yourself a savvy computer user. Though many of us think that we are using the internet in a safe way, we are actually vulnerable to malware or viruses. The problem I often run into, is that people think getting infected is about going…
Q&A Monday: Waiting for the dream job and offered another
Question: I know this is more of a general question than a technical question, but I expect end of next week to have two offers on the table from companies that are under a lot of pressure to get their positions filled. There is also third company, probably my favorite, which doesn’t seem to be under the same pressure and…
Windows Security Best Practices
In todays age, you can not be too secure when it comes to your network it’s better to be safe than sorry. In the current economy I’ve seen many companies consolidate jobs and add new burden to already over-burdened admins. One of the places where this will hurt companies is the network security departments. I’ve learned many…
Q&A Monday: Hide Accounts from XP Welcome Screen
Question: I am currently setting up a couple of computers for a small business and not in a domain, and they prefer the Windows XP Welcome menu to log on to the computer. I have set up an Administrator account and would like that account to be hidden from the welcome screen. Adam E. Jones Dallas, TX Answer: To…
Helpful Powershell Commands to Know
Recently I was talking with a colleague about our histories of working in the computer field, all the ways from the early days of DOS to where we were currently. I remember the early days of working on the computers and using the DOS commands to get stuff completed, today Microsoft has started using PowerShell for…