Yesterday, late in the day, I got some email from a mailing list I had joined a couple of years ago and that I had pretty much given up for dead, since it’s been a few months since I heard anything from it. The list is a listserv discussion list run by a statewide organization…
The wife and I were tripping through one of the local Sam’s Club’s last night, and as usual, I decided to skip over to the computer area and see what they had going on. (Especially in light of the fact that a certain holiday is coming up and I need to start looking for gift…
A technology company engaging in anti-competitive behavior. The installation for their software makes sure that their peripheral will only operate with said software and disable it’s ability to communicate with the competitor’s software. Why that no good lousy, Bill.. What’s that? Oh it’s Apple. Nevermind…. Yes that was sarcasm, personally, I don’t use iTunes or…
Oh, in addition to what I said below, lying to your IT person about what you may have done to create a problem, is also not a good idea if you want cheerful service!
Now, normally the things I write about here are for other IT folks, sharing information, commiserating about work, or software companies, stuff like that. Today, however, I want to take a moment to talk to the end users and offer up some advice. Now I offer this advice for a very simple reason. When other…
I’ve been having on and off problems connecting to Yahoo using Trillian, looks like maybe Yahoo is playing games with trillian users now. I’ve had to switch to different servers twice in the last 3 days, and I’m not holding out much hope that this is going to stop. There’s more in the trillian forums…