I was reviewing some exam questions for the A+ exam over my lunch today, using the practice tests included with Mike Meyers’ A+ Certification Passport. It’s a decent book and the practice tests seem decent, but one of the questions had to do with someone who’s new email client could get incoming email but couldn’t…
It seems that my latest webcam pic, which was taken after a successful install of Red Hat 7.1 as a “play and learn” installation, has gotten the attention of non other than Lockergnome’s head Penguin himself, Tony Steidler-Dennison. Like I said in Tony’s comments, I’m still getting paid to be a Windows guy but what’s…
Today will be a pretty work intensive day as the calendar conspires against me. Not only is this the Monday after a 4 day weekend, which would be quite a bit of catching up on it’s own, but it’s also the time to update our website database, which occurs every other week, and it’s the…
Angela braved the Friday morning crowds to pick up a new toy for us, well for her more than anything, but we’ll both be enjoying it. At $154 the Kodak EasyShare CX4300 digital camera was a nice addition to the family gadget collection. Anytime you can grab a 3.1 megapixel camera for that price, it’s…
I hate when I’m at the in-laws and I forget to change the outgoing server stuff for the email. Their SBC Yahoo dialup connection only lets you send email out through their server, and I spent soo freakin’ long trying to figure out why my email wouldn’t send from Outlook. Duh!
The office is closing a couple of hours early today to give everyone a head start on their Thanksgiving holiday. (I’ve still got a couple of things to finish up, so I’m blogging this now, instead of right before we leave.) Since we’re driving down to West Virginia to see Angela’s parents today, the extra…