OK all you Mac folks out there. I have a question. In the Windows world, I can use the command line utility Robocopy to copy the contents of a folder to a USB drive, and have it keep the timestamps and other file attributes. Is there a similar way to do that on a Mac,…
I wrote yesterday on the Friends in Tech blog, about why I don’t rely on on-line Office Suites, but here’s a similar thought. Even for something as unimportant in the grand scheme of things as photo-sharing, or Twitter, I still get mighty aggravated when a service doesn’t work correctly and I cant do the thing…
When I first read about G.ho.st the other day, the system admin part of me wondered if an on-line virtual computer could be the end of blocking IM, web-mail and social networking, because anyone with a little smarts could figure out to go to the VM, login, and use that to “browse” to all the…
I’ve got an evaluation copy of Gsyncit running on my laptop right now. It’s a tool that easily syncs your Outlook calendar with your Google Calendar. You can use the evaluation edition for as long as you like, but that means putting up with a nag screen that takes about 15 seconds when you open…
I like the mobile web interface, but why does the Twitter Mobile make me login every day? Am I the only one who’s not remembered when I go back to the site? Tags: Twitter, Mobile
On the latest In the Trenches, Kevin was talking about using checklists, especially when working on a number of machines at once. This weekend was a perfect example of another good reason to have checklists. We were rolling out software upgrades by rolling out a new desktop image to about 120 desktops. This, unfortunately, required…