Desktop Blog Editors

I’ve been grumbling to myself about writing blog posts using the web interface in WordPress for quite some time, but I’ve never really done much about it.  Today I spent some time chatting with David Pratt, a colleague of mine, about our blogs.  David runs the Data Management Wonk blog and I liked how his [...]

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The Importance of Backups and the SMB

Today we had a really bad thing that happened, but it ended up not mattering at all.  One of my clients was busy doing some work and accidentally deleted a directory with about 1 GB of data in it. I got a very worried email from them and if it could be restored.  Fortunately, we [...]

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Speaking at the 2009 Utah Open Source Conference

Last month I sent the Utah Open Source Conference a proposal for a presentation on “Building an Open Source Security Tool Set“.  Presentations are voted on by the registered attendees and the other folks who have submitted a presentation.  When I was making my votes, I saw that there were a lot of great abstracts.  [...]

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Spyware Removal – Pain followed by success

I was working on a PC for someone that had some real issues with spyware on his system.  The main symptom that he found was that his computer would hang after boot up.  The mouse could move around, but you couldn’t do anything with the Start Menu, desktop icons, or the keyboard.  My task was [...]

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New look for the web site!

Tonight the new look for the website went live! Major thanks to Denise Smith for her work on the graphics.  Everything she’s done for the business has come out great looking.  I’m really excited to have this done.  I hope you all enjoy it as well. Technorati Tags: new website

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