Computer Everything

We are very proud and excited to announce that our very own Alec Cedrone has won an award from Open DNS as a 2010 System Admin of the year!   Several awards were given to some very highly regarded professionals, Alec was awarded the Shoestring Budget category for his excellence in cost-savings for his other [...]

Today we ordered Eight HP brand PC’s custom configured with Windows 7 Pro/Windows XP Pro downgrade option.  They arrived preinstalled with XP Pro so I upgraded one to Windows 7 Pro to do some benchmarking on two identical machines.  This is what PassMark had to say:

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Out of bordem I googled “hacker games” to see what would turn up.  I came across a fairly cheesy yet cryptic puzzle game called Hacker 2.  I was unable to complete the first level but I didn’t give up.  I decided to decompile the .swf program and  see how it was written.  Well deciphering the [...]

Recently I’ve been keeping a close eye on netbooks with the hopes of building a mini BackTrack beast with hefty battery life. Well thanks to Asus I’ve turned that hope into a reality.
Several weeks ago I had some spare time after being called to jury duty which turned out to be canceled. [...]

For one of my employers I’ve been facing a huge storage challenge due to a lack of IT budget and growing profiles, shared folders and email stores.  I’ve been on the hunt for an affordable solution and been looking at everything from Email Archiving Servers to SAN and NAS devices.  Last week I got approval [...]

Today I deployed PDFCreator to one of our Windows print servers and unfortunately the program doesn’t work quite how I’d expected. I was hoping each user could install the printer, and when printing, have the choice on where to save the .pdf file. Instead this destination is configured by me the administrator. [...]

Started the day off as usual… verifying backups, auditing logs,  and sipping coffee over emails.
Vendor newletters, webinar invites, forwarded spam, ERP and CRM upgrade gabber… Ooh yay, another Labelview problem and potential solutions from their support vendor.  Guess what?  Our legacy environment is NO LONGER SUPPORTED by Teklynx…  understantably so since the About window shows [...]

After a week of being sick and falling behind at my other job I’m finally all caught up and then some!  During my downtime I was able to get much accomplished on this website which is finally almost finished!  Today started a little slow as I’m still recouping from the vicious cold that’s been going [...]