Perfect way to start a Monday:
Being introduced to the new employee that no one bothered to tell you about, and having to explain to her that she doesn’t even have a computer to use yet because no one told you she was starting. Oh joy!
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I did some research and found that the SMC Barricade WAN port does not act as an uplink, I need a crossover cable to connect the Hawking Router to the SMC wireless router using LAN ports. So that explains why that wasn’t working last night. Rule number one of tech work, always have the correct…
One of my users got hit with spyware today. It seems they went to a website that used either an ActiveX or popup javascript to drop an .exe file in their Temp folder at 8:59AM. This .exe then went to work and by 10AM his PC was infected with eZula, eXact search, WhenUsearch, MaxSpeed, Bargain…
Thanks to Tom, who was kind enough to let me know he was viewing the site with Windows XP, I was able to learn some new things about this apparent bug in the stats program. I thought perhaps the XP visits were being counted as something else, but I realized by comparing Tom’s visit and…
This is why it’s important as an IT worker (especially if you do desktop support!), to have a bottle of anti-bacterial hand wash in your office. I try to use mine as soon as I return from dealing with someone else’s machine, especially if I had to use the keyboard or mouse! Follow these topics:…
Check out Ev’s new blogtoy. Seems to me there’s a big difference between someone calling you an “egotistical twat” in the comments, and splattering it right there in the middle of your blog! I think I’ll pass. 🙂 (That particular comment will probably be overtaken by the time you read it, but trust me, it…
Well last night I was REALLY hating Symantec, I’ve since cooled off a bit. A friend of ours purchased, and then tried to install, Norton’s System Works 2006. She thought she had a successful install, however when she restarted her computer, her new System Works immediately went into red stop sign mode, telling her that…