There’s nothing quite as frustrating as carving out some time during the weekend to get caught up on some website stuff, upload some photos, answer emails, etc. and having your internet connection hosed all day. Ugh! Oh well, maybe between tonight and tomorrow I’ll still get it done. Technorati Tags: InternetConnection
You may recall a while back I talked about G.ho.st the online Virtual Machine project. I haven’t gone back to look at it again in some time, but I got an email from them today, and given the new features, I may have to take a look very soon: As part of our continuous efforts…
Neville Hobson posted something interesting over the weekend, and Shel Holtz added some further thoughts to the discussion today, about the number of companies who have simply blocked access to Facebook and other social networking sites. I think they cover some of the objections to this pretty clearly, but I want to focus on a…
I read with interest the post by Security Monkey today about swatting flies, not because I don’t agree with him about his point, but his example really brought to mind another of my pet peeves about working in IT generally, but Help Desk specifically. Let’s start with his example: Your help desk reports to you…
So you’re a cable repair guy. you go to someone’s house and there’s obviously a network running. The cable modem is giving the customer problems, so you decide to try and replace it. In fact the tech support folks on the phone told the customer that there seems to be a recent history of the modem losing connection to…
We’ve been having problems off and on with our Internet connection at the house. Finally, last night Angela gave them a call. The bad news is that it’ll be Thursday before they get out to our house, so I can’t really plan on having reliable Internet connection during the evening until then. (For example, it…