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Inside the first personal computer: Kenbak-1

The Kenbak-1 is considered by many to be the world's first "Personal Computer." The Computer History Museum granted it this designation when they were still located in Boston in 1986. More specifically, the machine represents the first commercially available Von Neumann stored program computing device intended and priced for personal...

Tags: Boston, computer, designation, Erik Klein, image, Kenbak-1, PC, photograph, Web, Web site, Webmaster

Image galleries 2006-07-20

Wireless Protocols

It's a wonder that no one thought to build into the protocols a mechanism for signifying a WAP as public or private. Since the protocol was intended for both uses, I'm curious as to why this was not incorporated. Anyone have any knowledge about this?WardrivingI'm sure that most...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Network security, Wireless LANs, wireless, designation

Discussion threads 2005-01-28

Additional Resources

Future Readiness for IT Managment - MIS Degree or PMP Cert...?

My boss wants to make me a manager for our future IT support team.It's a great organization for many reasons. One of them is that they will pay for all your training. Yes even a degree. Up front. None of this reimbursment garbage.In being prepared for the future I am...

Tags: advice, career, information technology, it management, kbaafi@..., MIS, PMP, project management

Discussion threads 2007-01-29

Take My Quiz (Windows Code Names)...I will post the answers to the comments section.

InaccurateWindows for workgroups 3.1 was codenamed Kato and was also known as Sparta in much inner circles,also Windows 2000 was the first release since Windows 2.0 to have no codename designation

Tags: Operating systems, riordanc@..., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2006-11-29

Understand the differences between basic disks and dynamic disks

disadvantages of dynamic discs?Are there any disadvantages on setting all of your win2k+ OS discs to dynamic?What about Linux, any issues with this?what about hardware raid volumes?I have a PERC3D RAID5 volume with two partitions, one for system and one for user data on a win2k3 server. how do...

Tags: Linux, RAID, Operating systems, Narutofan, Dynamic Disks, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-27

How do I close off a question and allocated points?

I love the new layout but cannot work out how to close off a completed question and allocated points?Thanksbruceno more pointsI think TR has abolsihed points. A Question now is just a discussion with a different designation, so it can go on

Tags: bldsm@..., HELPFUL

Discussion threads 2006-11-06

JR Alarm Clock (exe)

JR Alarm Clock is a simple and easy to use application designed for reminding you when do to something. If you have gotten lost in time, while working on a computer this is for you. Just click on the 'Set Alarm' button and type in a valid time with an...

Tags: Pop-up, JR Alarm Clock, Productivity

Software downloads 2007-11-13

Print Excel file containing photos in a mailmerged document

I have an excel file with RowA1 to RowA5 (serial, name, designation, join_date,photo) as labels. The column "Photo" - contains filenames(eg:AAA1.jpg) of the photographs stored in a different directory (eg:d:photosAAA1.jpg)When I mailmerge the file into a word document, I do not get the picture in the merged document. Can you...

Tags: photograph, mishrap@..., software, excel

Discussion threads 2007-03-06

Print Excel file containing photos in a mailmerged document

I have an excel file with RowA1 to RowA5 (serial, name, designation, join_date,photo) as labels. The column "Photo" - contains filenames(eg:AAA1.jpg) of the photographs stored in a different directory (eg:d:photosAAA1.jpg)When I mailmerge the file into a word document, I do not get the picture in the merged document. Can you...

Tags: mishrap@..., photograph

Discussion threads 2007-03-30

MIS Degree? Then what?

I am NOW convinced an MIS degree is the way to go.As I see it now, it will give me a lot more options: horizontically but more so vertically.Now that I am on the MIS track my next thoughts are:1. What conceivable positions can I look forward to?2. What range...

Tags: kbaafi@..., MIS, MIS degree

Discussion threads 2007-03-27

Print Excel file containing photos in a mailmerged document

I have an excel file with RowA1 to RowA5 (serial, name, designation, join_date,photo) as labels. The column "Photo" - contains filenames(eg:AAA1.jpg) of the photographs stored in a different directory (eg:d:photosAAA1.jpg)When I mailmerge this excel file into a word document, I do not get the picture in the merged document. Can...

Tags: mishrap@..., photograph

Discussion threads 2007-03-13

Domain naming

Hi,For a smaller company of 100 or less, is it better to name the domain.local instead of domain.com. I have read somewhere that says it is better now a days to name the internal domain .local instead of the registered .com or .net since it won't conflict with your Internet...

Tags: DNS, domain name, Eminent87, it management, local extension, public domain name, server

Q&A 2005-04-25

The Quibble of the Week for January 15

If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Failure or succession," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...

Tags: Quibble, Power, Debatable Aspect, Corporate Communications, Strategy, Marketing, Management, Jay Garmon

Blog posts 2008-01-15

People Search (zip)

People Search is an application which allows you to find information about people in your organization (like name, designation, email, telephone number, department, room number) provided the data is stored in Active Directory. This is a useful utility for people who are always on the move like the SUPPORT STAFF...

Tags: Application, Phone, People Search, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Telecom & Utilities, Enterprise Software, Software

Software downloads 2006-09-06

TDK 440N DVD RW does not recognise CD disks

I am hoping someone has an answer to my dilemma.I have a TDK 440N DVD R/RW drive that has stopped recognizing CD disks. I have tried using a bootable disk and it will not boot to the disk. I have upgraded the firmware. I have re-installed the drivers. I have...

Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, alan@..., disk, CD disk, TDK, CD, DVD-RW

Discussion threads 2007-09-21

Should You Become a Microsoft Office Specialist?

A Microsoft Office Specialist is a person who has passed an exam administered through a Microsoft Authorized Testing Center on one of the Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office XP, or Microsoft Office XP products. Introduced in 1997 as the Microsoft Certified Office User Program, users today can receive designation as...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office Specialist, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

White papers 2007-12-01

DoSHTTP (exe)

DoSHTTP is an easy to use and powerful HTTP Flood Denial of Service DoS Testing Tool for Windows. DoSHTTP includes URL Verification, HTTP Redirection, Port Designation, Performance Monitoring and Enhanced Reporting. DoSHTTP uses multiple asynchronous sockets to perform an effective HTTP Flood. DoSHTTP can be used simultaneously on multiple clients...

Tags: HTTP, DoSHTTP, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

Software downloads 2007-12-12

Shopping for Windows Vista software and drivers

We're just now passing the four-month mark since WindowsVista was officially released. So it's at this point that you would expect tofind an abundance of software and device drivers on the market thatare specifically designed for Windows Vista. Here's a guide to finding some of those products.SoftwareOf course, the first...

Tags: Windows Vista, Retail, Microsoft Windows

Technical articles 2007-05-31

Enetering the job market

I would like some advice as to how to go about entering the IT management field. I have been in the Navy for the past 8 years in a non-non IT role. I have been working in Aviation Electronics, and I currently teach new acession sailors about Avionics systems. In...

Tags: job, timgraves1@...

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Close all files from the command line in Windows 2000 Server

Drive FAm I correct in assuming the /f switch designates the shared drive letter?/F switchNo, /f is a switch, not a drive designation. It indicates that a file or list is being provided that should be parsed by line. See "help for" from a command prompt for more...

Tags: /F switch, windows 2000, Microsoft Windows, server, GrandView, hardware, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

Discussion threads 2006-07-18