Ten months

It’s hard to believe, I know, but today marks the 10 month mark of working at the law firm instead of being the one man IT Department that I was before. It seems about as good a time as any to do a little reflecting on the plusses and minuses to working as part of…

IE 7 beta 3

Yes, beta 3 of Internet Explorer 7 is available. Naturally, I had to go grab it. I decided to uninstall beta 2 first, which sets you back to IE6. Then I had to restart. Once it restarted I ran the install for beta 3 and that install also included re-installing all of the IE-associated patches…

How would you do it?

You have a medium-sized network, say 350 machines spread over 3 locations. You’ve suddenly, in the last week or so, noticed that your Internet connection has gotten a whole lot slower! Where would you start to look for what’s causing the bottleneck? In the last week we’ve found one machine with a trojan, gotten it…

Practice makes perfect

Like anything in life, as well as technology, the best way to learn and get better at something is to practice it. I’m looking forward this weekend to getting a whole lot of practice with photography this weekend. While plenty of folks who’ve seen my abilities with landscape photography, and I’m fairly proud of how…