Just a few things that have struck me about my new Vista machine: OK, so Dell announced on June 18 that they were going to allow customers the option to not have some pre-installed software. I ordered my system the week before that and saw that option, how new is it really? This system came…
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,…
You know, a lot was made of Vista’s security feature that would ask a user to approve something before it was allowed. I’m sure you’ve even all seen the Mac commercial parody of it. But it’s interesting that in my tests with using Ubuntu on my desktop, that’s where I see this same sort of…
Here’s an interesting theory from Daniel Taylor (Spotted via Adam Gaffin): I think of it like hot dogs. Nobody wants to know what goes inside a hot dog. And once you do, it’s kind of hard to get excited about eating one. That’s the way it is with mobile devices. There are gadget heads in…
I just wanted to share a little story of good tech support. I needed to set up a mailing list, and on my hosting account the tool available to do that is a program called EZMLM. It works fairly well, but I needed to make a small edit to one of the configuration files for…
Something I’ve discovered over the time that I’ve been doing photography is just how much trouble I have editing digital images. Seriously, my wife can open up Photoshop on her Mac and do some amazing things, while I’ve tried a variety of Windows apps, including Gimp, and I just have never quite gotten the hang…