I wrote earlier about a grand experiment with Open Office that I’ve been trying. Today, the experiment kicked in to full gear with the arrival of our two laptops. After setting up one of them, including an install of Open Office 2.3, I only had a chance to open a couple of files and see…
Joe Wilcox does a good job of finding the FUD in Microsoft’s 10 reasons not to use Google Apps. I’d have to agree with him that Microsoft’s reasons are pretty dumb. One thing that does jump out at me though, is number 7: Enterprise companies have to constantly think about government regulations and standards?while Google…
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…
I didn’t even realize that Microsoft had disabled the ability to dock the quick launch bar on the right or left of the screen, forcing it to stay down with the taskbar. That is, I didn’t realize it until I just tried to move mine! Since I like to hide all the desktop icons and…
A while back, you’ll recall that Phil did an interview with me about working at the help desk. Since he’s a help desk manager, I thought it would be interesting to get some input from him about the management side of things. He was kind enough to take the time and respond to my questions,…
In case you ever run into a laptop like the one I did today, where you had to reload applications, the Internet activation of Office 2003 failed and you couldn’t get the phone activation information to come up. From KB article 875452: SYMPTOMSThe Microsoft Office 2003 Activation Wizard disappears when you use the telephone option…