Tony writes, asking about how I got to be a one-man IT Department. Since many of you may be looking for the same type of position, here’s my answer to him: Actually I sorta got into this postion by accident. I used to work in accounting, but spent alot of my free time working with…
File this under the headline of “old hoaxes never die”. I’ve been dealing with the jdbgmgr.exe hoax this morning. Apparently, someone with another organization fell for this one and passed it on. You should see the “to” line of the email. There are more addresses there than I care to even guess at. Let me…
The fine folks who make The Ultimate Troubleshooter offered me a free copy of the software to try and use and to tell you all about. Being a sucker for free software, well, what could I say? I installed in last night so I haven’t used it nearly enough to get anything resembling a real…
I was able to run in those two conference rooms in between meetings this afternoon, only to discover that they both seem to work fine now. Figures! I’m still going to try and take advantage of the mystery network problem to put together a proposal on using a router with DHCP to give easy internet…
So I checked the switch that conference room was connected to and the port is fine and dandy. I can plug my laptop into the port directly and it has no problem connecting to the network. This is not good. This may mean there’s trouble in the wiring in the walls of that room. I’m…
I hate it when there’s a conference room full of people, one of our folks is all ready to do a presentation using our website and suddenly, for no obvious reason, the network port in there just seems to die. Luckily I have a 100 foot Ethernet cable so I just ran the connection over…