IT Professionals
Why Love Your OS?
What is the driving force behind your household’s adoption of whichever OS you use? What do you like about it? I ask this as I sit here working on my Ubuntu notebook. See, at my house we use OS X along with a ton of Linux distributions. My wife is really not much of a [...]
The Power Of Ill-Defined Parameters
Bern Muller’s comments about the proper use of stereotyping are insightful, but need some further discussion to be totally correct. He distinguishes between well-defined group attributes and unknown individual attributes. Statistically men are significantly taller than women, but many women are taller than me. Similarly men on the average have larger lung capacities than women. [...]
Making Online And Offline Connections
I’ve met all of my clients through online resources and networking. I had one local client in the past who found me online and we never met face-to-face (f2f). However, I recently landed a client and we’ve already had one f2f meeting, but I don’t anticipate another as it was to discuss the business overview. [...]
Functional Levels In Windows Server 2008 Part I
The features available in a Windows Server 2008 domain depend on the functional level. Therefore, you can add additional features to a domain by raising the functional level. Windows Server 2008 supports three different domain functional levels. The three domain functional levels are: Windows 2000 Windows Server 2003 Windows Server 2008 Windows 2000 When you [...]
Sub-$300 Notebooks – Surely This Must Be A Dream?
After the Ubuntu based gOS desktop computers sold so well that they sold out from Wal-Mart’s inventory, there is one thing that was on everyone’s mind almost immediately – when will Everex, the company that made the magic happen between hardware and OS on the gOS side of things, release a notebook? What with the [...]
Wiped Drives And Partitioning Problems
Today, Tims asks: I have just wiped my 20G hard drive and reformatted using a program I bought from stopmau.com. This was a boot up disk program on my CD ROM. Now I have XP up and running again but i can only see 5G of the 20? I have emailed this problem to stopmau [...]
Networking Without Walls Or Boundaries
Making Online and Offline Connections looks at how the virtual world changed how we connect to others. In it, I state that the online world made it possible for me to become a full-time freelancer. It got me thinking how I met people in this virtual world. I met a few through blogs, especially in [...]
Create A New Domain Tree In Windows Server 2008
Multiple domains form trees within a forest. A tree can be defined as a hierarchical arrangement of domains within a forest. A tree is established when a child domain is added to the hierarchy under an existing parent domain. When you add a new domain as a child domain, it inherits a portion of its [...]
Requested Since 2004
Since I first started contributing here at Lockergnome, I have had reader after reader asking me what it takes to succeed in the computer repair (consulting) business. Besides myself, I am sure that Matt Wilkinson, one of my favorite IT Professionals contributors, who has maintained a successful repair biz himself, would have a number of [...]
Who Thought A Cordless Phone Could Be So Cool?
Now that I’m working at home a lot more lately, I wanted to upgrade my phone system a little. I have a Motorola 5.8GHz two-line expandable cordless phone system that I’m relatively happy with — but when I saw this baby from Plantronics, I had to check it out. You see — my office is [...]
