Archive for July, 2006
Using “Reply All” Should Be Outlawed
Posted by: | CommentsOr at the very least be punishable by 20 lashes with a web noodle. Every day I hear people complain about how they received an untold amount of e-mails because someone sent a message out to a group of people on a list and people were replying back to the entire list using “Reply All.” In many companies, using “Reply All” on network broadcasts to Staff or large distribution lists can get you severely reprimanded at best, fired at worst. Read More→
Playing Virus Russian Roulette
Posted by: | CommentsAre you playing Russian Roulette with your computer by not having a current anti-virus installed and updated? Whether you are using a Windows or Mac, you should have an anti-virus product installed with an up-to-date subscription or you could find yourself losing your files, photos or worse, your entire system.
Anti-Virus software is the one software purchase no one should skimp on. There are great products out there that are reasonably priced and work very well. Each product is similar in functionality; however, there are some products that can drag the performance of your computer down to a crawl. Read More→
Don’t Be a Victim of Domain Robbery
Posted by: | CommentsI just had to start a category on scams after the phone call I just received. Of course, there was no CallerID associated with the call. After several hellos, a woman came on the line and told me she was from the “Domain Registry Service.” Uh, huh. Yeah, right.
As a grin crossed my face, I said “Yes?” after which she proceeded to tell me that there are upcoming changes to the registration for my domain name and they wanted to alert me to them so that I could take action. Read More→
I’d Rather Switch Than Fight!
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve been a Windows user since the very first release. I remember seeing a Macintosh computer and thinking “How cute. But for real work, there’s the PC.” Twenty six years later, I’m singing a different tune.
In the beginning Windows was truly a poor imitation of the Macintosh operating system. By the time Windows was at its 3.0 release, it appeared to all of us in the industry that it was a viable, robust computer operating system that made PC’s much easier to use than just plain old DOS. Read More→
Reveling in the World of Star Trek
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My name is Rob Alfieri and I have been working with Technology since I was 16. It all happened one day when I needed a summer job.
In the mid-1970s I was hired as a clerk typist for a small business in Philadelphia and they had purchased a brand new IBM System/3 minicomputer to do their accounting and order processing. I was intrigued and managed to talk the Accounting Manager into teaching me how to operate it. From the moment I turned it on, I knew that this was going to be my career. It was as if I was living in the world of Star Trek. Read More→
