Tech

  • Not the best layout

    I wonder if anyone else ever has this problem. You go onsite to do some tech support at a conference or other speaking engagement, they’ve been nice enough to let you know that they have the projector, screen and all that already, you just need to bring your laptop and plug in, but when you…

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    My laptop may be dying

    I hope not, but my not quite 3 year old HP laptop, with Windows XP on it, is having difficulties. It only boots correctly every other attempt, or sometimes the third attempt. Sometimes in the off attempts, it hangs on the HP boot screen, other times it goes all the way to the login screen,…

  • Goodbye Google Sync

    I thought I had the bugs ironed out using Google Sync for the Blackberry but today was the last straw. While prepping for a meeting, I went to verify the location and discovered that, despite the fact that this event had existed, without problems, in all 3 places (Blackberry, Google Calendar and Outlook), for weeks,…

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    E-Discovery Impact on IT

    I thought this quote from a ComputerWorld article really sums up what I’ve been thinking since I moved into Litigation Support and out of a strictly IT job. ?[FRCP] has made their lives incredibly complicated,? Nirken said. IT is now responsible for immediately locating electronic files that ?can exist just about anywhere ? in networks,…

  • PC sound troubles

    So I spent two hours + troubleshooting a friend’s PC tonight, and not getting it fixed. How frustrating! Here’s the scenario: She noticed a few weeks ago, after doing her annual AV/Firewall renewal, and other updates, that her sound wasn’t working. Now, it may have not been working prior to this, this just happens to…