Have you ever tried dual monitors?  I have for about 3 years now and I will never go back.  The efficiency gained with a dual monitor setup is well worth the additional cost. I highly recommend it for all technical departments. I have also seen efficiencies gaining in call centers, accounting departments, and tech support departments.  When you have dual monitors you can easily maximize multiple windows.  Anyone that needs to read information from one application and type in another application will see a huge benefit.  This helps reduce the …

GoDaddy is a difficult company to work with. We are not a customer, well I am personally, but not at work. We have several customers that have been blocked from sending email to any GoDaddy hosted email accounts. Come to find out GoDaddy has two issues. One issue is they block an entire class C of IPs because of a single spam notification. Often a class C that is assigned to us is broken up and SWIP’d to multiple customers. GoDaddy refuses to only block …

I have used IE 7 on both my home PC and my work PC, leaving Firefox on my laptop.  After running it awhile I am not impressed.  I have now used the new RSS functionality and it is no better than Firefox.  Actually it seams as if IE7 is just trying to catch up to where Firefox has been for quite sometime now.  Given Firefox’s support/development community I feel Firefox is still the browser of choice.  Now I do think Microsoft will be able to out market Firefox, but from …

We have decided to go with the SpectraLogic T50.  We are impressed with the feature set and the price.  We were quoted $24K for the unit.  Next we need to price and evaluate backup software.  We run serveral Oracle databases so we will need to interface with RMAN.  Below are the software packages in the running.
Veritas NetBackup – http://www.veritas.com/
EMC Data Manager (EDM) – http://www.emc.com/
HP OMNIBack/ DataProtector – http://www.hp.com/
IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (formerly ADSM) – http://www.tivoli.com/storage/
Legato Networker – http://www.legato.com/
ManageIT Backup and Recovery – http://www.ca.com/manageit/
Sterling Software’s SAMS:Alexandria (formerly from Spectralogic) – http://www.sterling.com/sams/
SUN’s …

I have been running IE 7 for a few days now.  Generally I have been happy with it. I had a DLL issue once which caused my browser to crash.  Other than that one single issue it has run flawlessly.  I do enjoy tabbed browsing, but I already had that in Firefox.  While I do like IE 7, so far there is nothing to write home about.  I have not had a chance to play with the new RSS functionality.  Hopefully I will find the time this week to play …

It looks like CME-24 was not a very big deal after all.  We took an extra cautionary backup of the files that could have been infected.  We also manually scanned the network for traces of the worm and none were found.  We did find one occurance of the worm on our Exchange server, but NAV was able to stop it.  All is well today. 
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The F-Secure blog is reporting that they’ve already received reports that it’s hit some users already. As the activation is based on the computer’s clock, if you’re clock’s not set correctly, then this could hit you anytime.
F-Secure have released a free tool to disinfect any machines that may be infected, this can be downloaded here. It’s recommended that if you’re not a 100% sure that you are not infected, then download the tool and run it.
When Blackworm/Nyxem.E activates it will overwrite all of the following file types:
DOC
XLS
PPT
ZIP
RAR
PDF
MDB
This will not only …