Tech Tips From a NYC System Administrator
The Problem: When you open your faucet, water travels through the water pipes in your house, to your sink. The amount of water that leaves your faucet, per second, can be referred to in terms of liters per second, or gallons per second. If you turn on all the faucets in your house, the pressure,…
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I hope this isn’t a restart of a trend to outsource overseas… Microsoft and Infosys today announced that they have come to a three year agreement to manage Microsoft’s internal IT services. The specific services included in the deal include technical assistance and management of software applications, devices, and databases. The agreement covers over 450…
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I’m still wary about social networking. I’m in LinkedIn for professional reasons, but haven’t gotten into the Facebook, MySpace, Twitter stuff. First of all, they pull crap like changing the Terms of Service without giving you a chance to opt out: The Palo Alto-based social networking company now says in its terms of service that…
Wow, this is a story worth watching. Reports are coming in from all over, that the 30GB Zunes are freezing up during bootup: Apparently, around 2:00 AM today, the Zune models either reset, or were already off. Upon when turning on, the thing loads up and… freezes with a full loading bar . We’re getting…
This is actually pretty cool. Google is tracking the rate of incidents of the flu by tracking the rate of incidents of certain search terms: We have found a close relationship between how many people search for flu-related topics and how many people actually have flu symptoms. Of course, not every person who searches for…
Washington Post story which clearly illustrates why you need to be careful with file sharing programs like Limewire, despite the peer-to-peer (P2P) application arena having enormous potential. Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the online file-sharing network…
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