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College football? O.K. Any football. It is
that time of year folks and I am hopelessly addicted.
Do you know Alabama, Auburn and LSU all play today? I
know that is quiet a mixture! You see I grew up in Bama a fan of The Bear
(remember I am a senior citizen) and had a basketball scholarship to Alabama
when in my youthful southern county boy patriotism I decided the war in Viet Nam
was more important.
Still, I prefer the people doctors over the animal docs in
sports matters. But the War Eagles have to take precedence over any third
party. Oh, yes LSU. I spent a lot of time in the Sportsman's Paradise
where my favorite fishing holes exist to this day so when it comes to
college teams the Tigers are my third fave.
Today I live in Tennessee, but just can't get into the
Vols or any other Tennessee College Teams. However, like my step sons,
I am an avid Titan Fan.
So what is all this about? Just a note to say unless
something of over riding importance comes along (like Santa Clause maybe) I will
not be posting on the weekends for awhile as I have previous engagements that
consume a lot of time on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, and Mondays.
Wow, that don't leave a lot of time, does it? Oh, what
the heck you only pass through this world once...might as well enjoy it!
Pop a top, grill a T-Bone, bake a tater, make some well
buttered garlic bread and join me!
Life simply can't be all about the root of all evil. We
will work again Monday.
Relax !!!!!!!!!
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Scott Dunn
and PC World
have reported loudly on Microsoft's latest stealth activity affecting private computers running Microsoft's XP Operating System
against the wishes of the computer owner. Makes one
wonder!
It is a full size Gateway Tower running MS Windows XP on
one hard drive, Linux on another, and Windows 'ME' on still another. Why?
Great little test and repair machine without risking cross contamination.
This computer has been running these operating systems for
years without any unusual problems to the extent that can be said without a
contradiction in terms when referring to Microsoft software.
Then shortly after it was revealed that Microsoft was
sneaking around in people's computers yet again, some funny things started
to manifest themselves when running XP Pro. Since there were no problems
with the other operating systems it was apparently not a hardware or network
issue.
The usual battery of tests were run, nothing. More
in depth tests were run with the same outcome. The only result, all security settings were
changed without any user or administrator input.
A restart and log in as Administrator was required.
One by one, step by step all security settings were reset to the specs
desired. Ah! Everything in the world is good! Well, at least until
restart when the computer promptly reset itself to its' self declared
preferences. Damn what the user and administrator prefer.
Next Step: Dump everything and start over.
Thanks Microsoft. That is precisely why I don't use dual boot
machines...no cross over issues.
If I went into Bill Gate's or Steve Job's house uninvited
whether physically or by tunneling I would be in jail whether I screwed up
anything or not. When no one can walk in my closed front or back door
uninvited, how can, as a matter of law, Microsoft waltz in whenever and
wherever it pleases and change whatever it pleases to suit itself no matter
how secure I try to make my system?
Come on Mr U.S. Attorney General!!
Why can Europe hold Microsoft responsible, but America can't seem to?
Never mind. My 13 year old granddaughter looking over my shoulder just
provided the answer, "It is called M-O-N-E-Y and political influence".
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That is no misprint and it is right. So what
operating system does Michael Dell use if not
Microsoft Windows?
Ubuntu. "uh" what? Ubuntu. A
Linux version.
First, What Ubuntu Is:
Ubuntu is one of the world’s most popular open source
operating systems. Ubuntu is a Linux-based operating system that is
community developed, updated regularly and offered for free. Designed to be
user friendly, the Ubuntu OS comes with built-in software for office
productivity (i.e., word processor, spreadsheets and presentation
applications), e-mail, calendar, chat, web browsing, photos, and more.
The name of the distribution comes from the
African concept of
ubuntu which may be rendered roughly as "humanity toward others", though
other meanings have been suggested.
The most recent version, Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty
Fawn),
was released on
April 19,
2007.
Version 7.10 (Gutsy
Gibbon) is scheduled for release on
October 18,
2007.Ubuntu aims to use only
free software to provide an up-to-date yet stable operating system for the
average user.
Kubuntu and
Xubuntu are official subprojects of the Ubuntu project, aiming to bring the
KDE and
Xfce
desktop environments, respectively, to the Ubuntu core.
Edubuntu is an official subproject designed for school environments, and
should be equally suitable for children to use at home.
Second, What Ubuntu Is Not:
It is not windows! Like anything new, if you are an
avid windows user (and who is not?) it will take you slightly out of your
comfort zone for a moment.
Ubuntu does have a user friendly grapical interface so it
should not take long to get up to speed. But don't expect windows!
Don't expect to need to purchase all the bells and whistles you like.
Don't expect operating system crashes on a regular basis. Don't expect
it to get slower and slower the longer it runs. Don't expect difficulty in
finding drivers at set up. Don't expect being over run by viruses.
Third, Tell Me More:
The Tennessee Mountain Man, Computer Man, has installed Ubuntu on a lot
of computers and personally runs Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). So
far, there has been no installation issues with the exception of wireless
drivers. Ubuntu will run off the CD or the hard drive, and locate and
install all drivers automatically. Try that little trick with windows.
Ubuntu has a complete FREE office suite built
in that will work with documents you have already created with Microsoft Office.
Dell unveiled two consumer PCs in Europe – the Inspiron 6400n and the
Inspiron 530n – with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux operating system factory
installed. Available now in the United Kingdom, Germany and France, the
systems are Dell’s first steps to meet the needs of the Linux enthusiast
community outside of the United States.
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When The Tennessee Mountain Man was a young fellow,
Elvis, singing "All Shook Up", was shaking his body to the sheer
chagrin of Ed Sullivan as we watched with bated breath on a six inch
viewable black and white CRT picture tube mounted in a heavy monstrous cabinet.
Now we watch 21 inch true color computer monitors as starlets display body
parts better kept covered in public. Talk about all shook up....Elvis had no
idea!
Technology has come so very far and, yet, has even farther
to go. I remember one of my uncles telling my paternal Granny about
Sputnik when I was a child. That old Cherokee who was a new born baby
on the Trail of Tears and had lived the coming and going of a century and
witnessed the advent of electricity, the electric light bulb, the iron
horse, the ice box, the telegraph, the telephone, and the radio was not
buying any of it. To the day she died, there was no telephone in her
house...let alone a television.
I wonder what she would think of a space ship that went to
the moon and back? a house floating in the heavens with people living in it?
Computers providing instant pictures and communications around the globe? I
wonder what that uncle would think of a 52 inch flat panel LCD television
with hundreds of channels, no snow, and no antenna that required you to run
outside and adjust every time you changed one of the two or three channels
whose signals could reach you and even more often during inclement weather.
A few days ago I gave in and upgraded an old cell phone
with all the bells and whistles which my 13 year old granddaughter
immediately setup for me. No manual or user guides necessary here.
I asked, "Baby, where did you learn to do all that?". Her answer,
"Papaw, don't you know a girl's best friend is a cell phone and a laptop?".
I was all shook up...ok amazed. On the ride home she had
accomplished what would have literally taken me hours to work through.
I must have felt a little like my granny back in the day. The Computer Man
who deals with this technology all day every day surpassed by a 13 year old.
She can also see clearer, hear better, think faster, dance
smoother, carry a tune, and negotiate the blackberry and the internet's
social networks better than Papaw.
I can't help but wonder what will get shook up in her
world. If we can outsource and run remote 'IT ' service and
helpdesk, repair computers over the internet, and telecommute today what kind of world will
she live in as senior citizen? Since we have moved from factories to
home based businesses and from one room schools to many acres of campus to
distance learning what will the education of tomorrow be like? And,
how will computer students get hands on experience? Will
there even be aircraft, cars, televisions, computers, web design or an internet as we
understand them today? I sincerely doubt it.
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With the increase in oriental advances in math and the
sciences and America's apparent inability to keep up comes grave danger. We
may soon find ourselves with no choice but to out source to parts of the
world the very 'IT' projects our enemies from the so called
third world are hacking with seeming ease.
Have you canvassed your local computer repair shops lately?
How many are owned or staffed by American citizens? How many speak English
proficiently? I am certainly not an isolationist, but I do believe in buying
American First when possible.
Being an old Viet Nam Vet, I was amazed and I guess amused a
couple of days ago while browsing when I came across a gentleman from Viet Nam
giving computer repair instructions to an American in perfect English. I was
also thrilled. A former enemy, a contemporary friend. He was probably not
even born during the war.
Have you noticed the decline in maw and paw computer sales and
service shops? Or is it just me? It seems that what the big box
stores did to these local community resources, foreigners are doing to the PC
repair shops.
I know small businesses cannot afford an ' IT '
Department. They outsource their ' IT ' services. But it
appears to me, at least, that they should consider buying American first.
One fellow I am aware of whose family owns stores in America,
takes the money and runs home to Syria with it on a regular basis. Does
anyone know who Syria is? If you do, do you believe Syria to be a friend
or ally to the United States?
Have you been to a doctor or hospital lately? You
know your doctor did not grow up in America. You wonder where his
turbine or her berka is. I can't help but remember all the doctors being
arrested here and around the world lately trying to destroy all we
love...who we are at the core.
It is bad enough when foreigners come here and elbow
Americans out of the market place while running off to God knows where doing
what only God knows with our dollars, but it is a down right disgrace (in my
humble opinion) when Americans prefer to shop off shore and do business with
someone they cannot even understand. But, maybe that's just me, a Native
American by birth. A proud American by choice!
When our young men and women are dying on foreign soil in
the War Against Fundamental Islam (interpreted Terrorist), our motto
must be: OUT
SOURCE, NOT OFF SHORE !
TMM
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There are family owned companies,
stock holder owned
or publicly held corporations, and even employee owned businesses. There are
also
partnerships,
sole proprietors, and
franchises all of
whom require websites.
The peddler ain't coming so you have to find another way to get into their
homes and in the modern
world that is often done via the internet with a computer.
The biggest of these business models, in
sheer numbers, is probably sole proprietorships (you may even have one and
not realize it) followed closely by MLMs and franchises.
When we think franchise such things as
McDonalds TM
and other chain operations which require a hefty
investment of capital come to mind. But, by far
the most prolific are relatively small MLMs
otherwise known as network marketers and other internet based work at home
opportunities which are essentially franchises and one may need only forego
a cup of coffee or invest some time and sweat to buy in.
They are everywhere! But caveat emptor applies (did you
check out the link at MLM above)! There "ain't no such thang" as free
puppies or a free lunch. If you wish to eat on a regular basis you need to
learn to fish. A character on a TV
show recently had a truism I liked, "talk is cheap, whisky costs money".
Do I work at home? You bet I do! I am married
and I have a puppy. My wife and my dog have a habit of eating on a regular
basis and I love them both. They don't, however, cut grass, rake
leaves, trim hedges, take out trash, wash vehicles or get in wood for the
fireplace. Know what I mean?
Is there anything wrong with working at or from home?
Of course not, but like anything else it is not for everyone. Both my wife and I have home based businesses. It
is the wave of the future, and the future is now. If you think it may be for
you and you need ideas you might try this
or this or this or this
or a hundred other similar sites. All I am suggesting is
that you do your homework before you
pull out your wallet because regardless of whether you are doing
data entry
or taking surveys or whatever it is called
bythe promoter you will be
buying into an MLM or a franchise.
There are places to get help like the home
income team. Right "thar"
and research research research. Time is on your side.
TMM
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Over the years I have had customers complain about not
being able to prevent attacks on their computers. I have even been
accused on a couple of occasions by elderly clients of infecting PCs so I
could clean them. There was one particularly antagonistic fellow whom I
assured we raised viruses in a Petri dish in the refrig for just such
purposes.
With the recent attempted attack on my own network and the
revelation that China managed to hack into the computer of America's
Secretary of Defense, it was all driven home again.
The Threat Explorer
by Symantec is a life saver. It is a comprehensive resource for daily, accurate and up-to-date
information on the latest threats, risks and vulnerabilities.
The threats are real, they are out there, they are
constantly and consistently improving their techniques, tactics and
devestation. They are on the prowl 24/7/365 and they are looking for you.
Unfortunately the clean up crews like The Shield
Deluxe, Norton,
McAfee,Kaspersky,
CA,
BitDefender,
NOD 32,
Panda,
Trend
Micro, AVG and the others are always and forever playing catch up.
The generals, as in any war, are always playing the "what
if" game and trying to anticipate and get in front of any attack, but in
reality the professionals see threats on the near horizon that they fear
they will not be prepared to meet for 5 to 10 years.
ConsumerSearch.com
proclaims among retail anti virus programs Kaspersky has a slight edge in
the defense of your computer. Nevertheless we all know I have used most if
not all of them over the years, and my personal preference is still AVG.
Perhaps they are like automobiles. Some folk prefer one make and some
another. That is subjective and does not by any stretch of the imagination
make one model better than another. I like what a member of the
judiciary ( a personal friend) said when questioned by a reporter, "well,
you know, some of my friends feel one way, and some of them feel another and
I always stand with my friends".
256MB RAM and 300MHz processor, 150MB free hard disk
space
$40 annually
TMM
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It is a trojan that tries to force the infected operator
to purchase their program to clean their program. At best
WinAntiSpyware 2007* like error safe and error
detected site* is a big pain in the ass and may
install malware, adware and/or spyware. And, at best it sure tends to eat up
a lot of memory and CPU capacity. Unfortunately simply uninstalling the
program will not fix the problem.
Ever so often one of these jerks that cannot compete in the
free market place screw up untold computers holding their owners hostage to
extort money. It is a crime and these dudes need to be found and fined and
jailed for... for a long time. But, don't hold your breath.
In the mean time you can clean it manually by getting rid of
all file, memory and registry references to "vundo". Barring that
time consuming task, there is
a FREE PROGRAM that will clean the menace out of your system. Download
and install SuperAntispyware.
Then update it and run a
complete scan. If you have a big hard drive full of data it may take a while so
pop a top, enjoy the game, and check back later.
I did not provide links to these rogue sites in the text because I
did not wish to add to the problem, but if you are one of those souls who just
have to go take a look, you now have the fix and you are on your own, so here
they are:
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There are loads of new software out there
ranging from free to much too expensive covering every imaginable subject.
So whether you are in the mood for a new game or in need of some new
application software or upgrade odds are that it is available through
C/Net's
download site.
The searching is made as easy as possible
with definable filters:
Filter by
Personally, I am an icon freak, and there some nice ones...free ones like
Business Office Icons 2 from Regimages.
50 Free Business Office Icons and Website interface icons for your website or
Software applications. If you are building any kind of website, e-mail,
accounting software, contact management, or server application- these are the
perfect solution.
Regimages is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock
images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock
images and illustrations. Regimages offers the largest image bank of free and
affordable royalty free images and illustrations perfect for any personal,
commercial projects ,Including web designs, software applications, advertising,
film, video, and computer games.
So whatever your needs, go get 'em.
TMM
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I don't like copying another's work...but
what follows (a redirect essentially) is so important to a great many
Microsoft Windows users that we have decided to do just that.
Many of the complaints I receive about
Vista are
answered here. Most of the requests I get are to just get this slow piece
of #!*! off my computer and get me back to
XP.
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O.K. Perhaps today's blog is not as edgy as
normal. It is also mostly off subject. Or, as Bill O'Reilly might opine,
not pithy enough. But after weeks of triple digit temps and dry skies
this weekend's 50 degree nights and 70 degree days preceded by 24 hours of
cooling rain to help with this year's drought was a Godsend.
It was only a few days ago that my computers
were over heating. Farmers' ponds were so low the county had to haul them
water for their livestock. Man, animals, and machines were dying from the
heat. My old ticker was over taxed, my wife was suffering mini strokes, my
kids lost their home, and my dog had a heat stroke. What a summer!
But alas for everything there is a season and
Bama simply had to beat the
Razorbacks Saturday.
Tis the season of the year when the world seems to me at least to begin to
renew itself. It is full of young love and memories anticipating a one
horse sleigh ride
through the snow with your girl at your side.
Growing up on a farm in North
Alabama the sudden
change in weather meant we would soon be picking cotton to make Christmas
money and buy new Sunday go to meeting shoes. Could hardly wait as
that was the time when the Christmas wish books from
Sears Roebuck & Co,
Montgomery Ward, and
Spiegel arrived providing a young man with endless
hours of dreaming and wishing and hoping and planning and preparing and....oh those
were the days.
It was hard work not like setting at a bench
in front of a recalcitrant computer, but back then we didn't know the
difference. Everyone we knew earned their money the old fashioned way.
They worked for it. By this time of year, the gardens were almost gone. The
last of the canning was being done. School was starting back up from
the summer break. There was corn to pull and other crops to get in, animals
to slaughter and salt down (what is a freezer), wood to cut to keep the old
stoves going through the winter providing heat for both keeping warm and
cooking.
There was also plenty of fun to be had.
We enjoyed running the ole dogs and hunting small game which at the end of
the day provided a delicious deep fat fried southern meal (get over it!). Along the way we kept an eye out
for that perfect Christmas Tree which we knew we would soon be needing.
There was basketball and football and endless school and church activities.
It was a busy time of year on our way to Halloween and enough candy to stuff
the biggest fullback or center...on our way to Thanksgiving when we had more than
enough reason to be and really were thankful for the harvest which was
shared with family, friends and neighbors whom we actually knew, loved and
visited.
But that was when a new home cost about
$10,000.00 with land, when gas was twenty-five cents a gallon, when a car
was a car and a big bright shiny new one cost less than $3,000.00.
That was before Viet Nam, before
divorces, before addictions, before heart disease, before cancer, before the
death of family and friends, before the loss of innocence, before inheriting
all the responsibilities of the surviving family elder. That was before....
Now I watch my grandchildren as a new
generation make their own memories...different memories. Hell, they
have no idea that one can either eat or read grits not to mention delivering
Grits to make a little spending money and earn some nifty prizes. They never heard of
77 Sunset Strip,
Edgar Bergen,Dick Powell,
Zane Grey, nor
Dick Clark's American Bandstand.
They never enjoyed the music of Lester Flatt...Earl Scruggs...and the Foggy
Mountain Boys, run with the Rat Pack or used a
heavy black rotary dial phone on a party line. Though the party line,
at first glimpse, I am sure would catch the attention of my 13 year old
granddaughter.
While they may never have to pick snap beans
or kill and clean a chicken for Sunday Dinner or wash Mason Jars for
preserving their own food, I can't help but wonder where the wonder is. They
have new fangled gadgets and brand name jeans but they can't build a
radio from parts found around the barn and using mom's clothes line as an
antenna listen to radio stations broadcast from far away places they had
only heard of. They have a longer life expectancy but they don't know the
sound of a barn owl, a whippoorwill or a mourning dove not to mention
the joy of catching their first big catfish. They may never suffer from
hypertension or clogged arteries, but they may also never know the thrills
of playing spin the bottle and taking that special little gal for a long slow walk
down a shaded country lane alive with the sound of birds singing and
chipmunks scampering about the ground, the sweet
smell of Honeysuckles, the beauty of a new born calf or the joy of a hay ride under a big beautiful harvest
moon.
The wonder of life seems now to be taken for
granted by and lost on perhaps the most important, wealthy, educated, and
deprived generation ever.
Hearing my music playing softly in the quiet
background as I was lost in the sweet memories of my yesteryears, my grandson wandered in
on his way to school breaking the mood asking, "Paw paw,
what's a Satchmo?"
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Microsoft seems to have almost single handedly brought us
most of
the advances (if one can call it that) in computer sciences. Although,
personally, I don't think they have had an original thought since
Windows
95
and NT, if then. What they didn't accomplish 'in house', they directly or indirectly pushed others to bring about and speed up....notice
I have not said improve.
Everything from software to hardware has become more user friendly, i.e. dumbed down. They have become slower...much slower than
an old 80286 (you can still buy one for a
mere $4,000.00 USD) running
DOS, but
apparently able to handle more processes simultaneously thanks to caching and clogged
pipe lines...(can you say RotoRooter). It turns out the most effective
pipe cleaning process may be a simple power failure. It can also be the most
costly resulting in the loss of everything on the hard drive and usually some
hardware as well.
Add to that Microsoft's bullying of competitors,
customers, partners and dealers alike, their secrecy, and their inability to play
well with others, and you have the perfect breeding ground for the guerilla
tactics of hackers and virus engineers. Those misguided souls who attacking
Microsoft hurts everyone else creating an untold amount of "collateral damage".
Now Microsoft has done "it" again!
Denies "it" again! Well duh... de ja vu. Remote Help Desk 1's
website design and promotion service
believes "it" to be by design. MS may well be the ultimate big brother ruling from their
covert confines deep in the bowels of the State of Denial reminiscent of Jack Nicholson's, 'You Can't
Handle The Truth!' as archived in a three minute clip on You Tube. Microsoft has, as tech's have long
suspected, preserved
back doors (known in political circles
as hidden corridors to undisclosed locations) on your operating system for their exclusive and intrusive use. And, now, as
Paul Harvey might say,
here's
Chris Maxcer of Tech News World with the
rest of the story.
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Hey, diddle, diddle...Hitch your wagon to a star rather than try to
jump that far off moon
alone. Cows are not that smart nor agile. But, you...you are
different...consider these points:
There are a few noted bright lights in our galaxy, e.g. Google, MSN,
AOL, Yahoo and (oh yes) Amazon. Ama what? That's right! Remote Help
Desk 1's outsourced it and web development and promotion departments say ignore
Amazon at your own peril.
Since 2002 Amazon has been quietly moving past it's labor
and hardware intensive
model and easing
into the realm where work is done automatically on it's servers with smoke and mirrors like
bots, codes, scripts, haunted spirits and....(sorry it is getting close to
Halloween and I do love the fall season). But I digress, the best part is that they have extended
an invitation for newbies to internet commerce to join them, and let's
face it, who wouldn't like to be linked to a name like Amazon. Add to that the
need for less start up capital and the opportunity to walk away with a cool
$100,000.00 in cash and services, and we think you probably have a winner.
According to c/net's
Elinor Mills, "Amazon wants to help entrepreneurs realize their dreams--and
become Web services customers--and is launching a Start-Up Challenge contest for
the best new Internet company idea. The winner will get $50,000 cash, the same
amount in Amazon Web Services credits, mentoring and a "seed investment offer," Selipsky says."
Remote Help Desk 1 can do the heavy lifting (design and
promotion) while Amazon
or another host
does their thing and you reap the benefits....Just like a seasoned pro. Or, you
can do like the rest of us old salts stumbling and bumbling around the web for
years wasting both precious time and hard earned money seeking your own costly
enlightenment which is truly the equivalent of the dish running away with the
spoon... dirty spoon at that.
However, with the proper support and a little
commitment on your part you can have your site up
and running and be indexed in the top 50 listings for your niche in Yahoo and
Google search engines getting well ahead of the other 8 Billion plus web sites
clamoring for their attention. And, all in less than a month. And, maybe, just
maybe, with an extra $100,000.00 courtesy of Amazon.
What would you give for search engine index
numbers like this within 30 days from launch with no way to go but up?
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David and Goliath? Not on your life! This is the
battle of the Jolly Greeen Giants....as in the big dogs...as in the power
brokers...as in show me the money...follow the money.
Remember a best selling book, 'The
Battle of The Ages'? Well this may well prove to be the secular
equivalent. It is not, however, new.
Long before Remote Help Desk 1 began pointing the
way to free apps that (in http://remotehelpdesk1.com's outsourced it view) are equal to if not
superior to Microsoft apps, the battle raged with many ace techs recommending web
apps over desktop. After all they don't fill up hard drive space or eat up
memory as today's TSR's do.
There was AJAX and others for web use and for those who just
had to have the desktop variety there was Star Office (now Open Office) and
others. Many of these programs are ABSOLUTELY FREE OF COST.!! So why would any
sane person wish to enrich the Jolly Greeen Giants?
Personally, I think we should all move to Linux
and open source leaving the preponderance of crashed computers, viruses, trojans,
expensive and bulky bullet ridden software, etc, etc to Microsoft.
There are even free apps to produce
pdf files or if you insist you can spend several hundred
dollars which I am sure Adobe appreciates.
And, are you still promising your first born for streaming? If so, this might interest you.
What am I raving about? Haven't seen all
the sniping? remote help desk vs desktop?
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Outsourced IT Services and Remote Help Desks such
as http://remotehelpdesk1.com must have
dependable bandwidth. It must be checked and verified daily, and often two or
three times a day as it typically experiences wide fluxuations depending on
several variables. Variables like peak usage times, route outages, etc.
For instance here is the picture for Remote Help
Desk 1 this morning:
As one can see here. For cable costs this outsourced it service
most often gets low end T3 speeds, a necessity for the number of computers on
line at any given time and the mission critical nature of remote help desk
1.com
Do you know what your true internet speed is? Test your bandwidth
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Any tech will advise to keep all software updated with the
latest service packs and all hardware supported by the latest drivers.
Best practices is to set up computers to receive updates automatically.
Speaking of software, from Microsoft comes another warning, another release.
Hidden deep in TechNet, they released four software patches Tuesday to fix security
flaws, including one that could allow hackers to take over computers running the
company's instant-messaging programs.
Only one of the flaws carried the company's most severe "critical" rating, but
it only applies to the Windows 2000 operating system. And, count this a blessing
Microsoft don't officially support 2000 anymore.
To be affected, users would have to visit a Web site and install a program that
could then run malicious code on their computers, said Mark Griesi, a security
program manager at the Redmond, Wash.-based software maker.
The other security vulnerabilities - including the one affecting MSN Messenger
and Windows Live Messenger - were assigned the second-highest "important"
rating. Hackers are beginning to target instant-messaging programs because it's
getting harder to trick people into clicking on links sent in e-mails, analysts
say.
The IM flaw allows hackers to run malicious code on computers if users click on
an instant-message link inviting them to check out a video.
"If the victim accepts that invitation, that's when this vulnerability kicks
in," said Amol Sarwate, manager of the vulnerability research lab at the
security company Qualys Inc.
.
Find out whether your PC security program covers instant-messaging programs,
many don't.
Two other patches released Tuesday as part of Microsoft's regular monthly
security updates affect programs used by software developers and administrators
of corporate computer systems.
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and research research research. Time is on your side.
