Office Computer? Gaming Computer? What’s the Difference?
Gaming computers, business computers, graphic design computers, and entertainment systems are all filling out their niche in the tech market. To figure out which systems you need, or to figure out which marketing terms are feeding you a load of rubbish, here are a few retail and custom computer details. It’s All About the […]
install TeamPass on Ubuntu 14.6LTS
Installing TeamPass on a fresh Ubuntu 14.6LTS server. Find the latest version of TeamPass here https://github.com/nilsteampassnet/TeamPass/releases I’m using 2.1.26(14) which was the most recent version as of this writing. Install Ubuntu 14.6, when asked what packages to install add LAMP (and SSH server if you want) Then update Ubuntu and install some requirements: […]
Managed IT Services and you. How outsourced IT can benefit your company.
Your business may currently rely on in-house IT teams to manage technology systems and equipment. However, there are a variety of benefits from using managed IT services for your company. Research completed by CompTIA shows that over two-thirds of business owners are now utilizing managed IT support in the last year. Consider some of the […]
Adding Apple Touch Icons to your website.
When you bookmark a website on your iPad/iPhone an icon is created for the site and placed in your bookmarks. In most cases, the icon is just a single letter on a colored square. But if you want some eye candy for your site, you can create an icon and instruct the IOS device to […]
Use the command line to set power options in Windows 7 and up
A computer, fresh out of the box, has a default setting to put itself to sleep after 10 minutes of inactivity. I prefer to keep computers alive so I can run maintenance scripts after hours without disturbing users. A handy command line tool is powercfg which can be used to set the power options. The […]
Opt-out of the Cox "bad domain" advertising
If you use Cox for your internet service at your home or office, you may have noticed that Cox redirects all non-existent domains to finder.cox.net. This can get especially annoying because you have to retype the entire domain name into the browser bar again, instead of looking it over and correcting the spelling mistake. To prevent […]
Blocking Referrer Spam with .htaccess files
If you are using Google Analytics on your websites, you may have found a number of sites linking to yours generating a lot of hits. Hits are great, unless its not a user, but a botnet looking to use your site for nefarious purposes. Some of this traffic is from unscrupulus SEO tactics that may lead […]
Your employees live and work in America, why is someone in China accessing your accounting data.
For many small business that operate in America, there is no reason to allow the entire planet access to business resources. Sure, SMTP and WWW traffic can come from anywhere, and you should keep that in mind, but that isn’t a compelling reason to allow everyone in China access to your accounting system, or that […]
Installing VMWare Tools in Ubuntu 14.4 LTS
After installing Ubuntu, update everything sudo apt-get -y update sudo apt-get -y upgrade Install build tools sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-server build-essential Mount VM Tools virtual CD. Mount the virtual CD in Ubuntu sudo mkdir -p /media/cdrom sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom Change to the directory and copy the files cd /media/cdrom sudo cp VM*.tar.gz /tmp […]
Excel 2010 Slow to open
On a couple computers, I had an issue where Excel would take upwards of 45 seconds to open. It would take this long if double clicking on an excel file, or just launching the program directly from the start menu. I found that if I disconnected the network cable, excel would launch instantly. I verified […]