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I need to vent - What would you do?

My organization has recently installed new management. Several of us have had our responsibilites dramatically reduced. Five of the eight departments heads have left. I intend to leave at the first opportunity.Under the previous management team all IT decisions rested with me. Under the new management team these decisions are...

Tags: jdmercha, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-01-21

America's Gas Guzzling Cars

I was walking down the street today taking notice of the cars parked on the side of the road. Four girls then came out of a nearby building and I said to myself, "I bet they are going to get in that large SUV". And they did.Not that I am...

Tags: amerca, gas, jdmercha, minivan, off-topic, oil, SUV

Discussion threads 2007-01-19

Bet you can't wait

blog rootTo Blog....or not to blog.That is the questionWether it is nobler on the web, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageuos feedback....To Blog....So do I play it safe and avoid discussing my job or my coworkers? Or do I go for complete and total honesty and risk losing...

Tags: Blogging, jdmercha, blog

Discussion threads 2006-04-17

IE 7 is a piecce of ...

I'm usually very pro-microsoft. But IE7 has got to be the worst thing they've ever produced.I installed IE7 on my Dell Precision 380, running XP 64. After the reboot I lost my dual display support.OK, simple fix to that is uninstall IE 7. WRONG! IE 7 will not uninstall. I...

Tags: ie7, jdmercha, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, software, windows

Discussion threads 2006-10-20

MPEG time not displayed correctly

I have one computer that does not handle mpeg files correctly. I have captured mpeg files from a video camera using Dazzle video Creator. I saved the mpeg files onto a network drive. I have run the video from several computers, all of which correctly identify the video as 10...

Tags: CD, computer, jdmercha, MPEG, video, windows, WMP

Discussion threads 2006-10-10

What do you do to talk a user/customer

What do you do to talk a user/customerDown from being irate or distrusting the help desk or you being the live person? You get to the user who just spent an hour on the phone with the help desk. They are mad and want to do bad things to the...

Tags: deskside support, help, help desk, helpdesk, it, jdmercha, users, windows, xp, zlito@...

Discussion threads 2006-08-01

Anybody seen this one before?

I have a monitor that works fine except, it will not be recognized at startup. So if I boot up the computer I do not get any kind of display with this monitor. However, if I boot up the system with an identical monitor attached then switch to the 'broken'...

Tags: Monitors & displays, monitor, Dell Computer Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-04-25

Web Form Requires Login

I've recently set up a web server using Windows 2003 and IIS 6. I've also installed the FrontPage server extensions. I've created a web form that sends an email to myself. I can call up the web form in my browser and check the boxes. When I hit the submit...

Tags: Microsoft IIS Server, e-mail, password, jdmercha, windows, permission, NTFS, Web, Web Form

Q&A 2006-03-22

Our Social Security Dollars

Your/my Social Security Administration contacted recently several school systems in Georgia to invite them to a computer donation activity. The employee that picked the ones that our county accepted said that there were hundreds of them in a warehouse in Marietta, GA. We got enough (DELL's GX110, 733Mhz, Pentium III,...

Tags: computer, ITCurious, job, off-topic, Social Security

Discussion threads 2005-02-22

SQL DBA

Anybody with strong SQL server experience, interested in job in Tampa? Let me know I'll send contact info.

Tags: Databases, jdmercha

Discussion threads 2005-10-17

HDD password

I have a Toshiba laptop that inadvertantly established a HDD password. The owner of the system is a student, who says she thinks she downloaded something from a file sharing site that put the password in place.With the drive plugged in you cannot get into the laptop bios or boot...

Tags: BIOS, BIOS password, hard drive, jdmercha, password

Q&A 2005-02-16

Backup help for small LAN

Backup help for small LANCan someone help (please?)I have an 80 users LAN that I've just took over and the backup is abismal. They're using an offsite program for key files, but that's all they have.I was going to implement an SDLT drive imediatley and then look at a full...

Tags: backup, DVD-RW, JDMercha, LAN, M3ckon, security, server

Discussion threads 2005-02-10

Phishing Scheme

I just recived an email asking to connect to a web site to verify my PayPal account. I was able to identify the IP address of the web server, http://210.205.6.125/~nanomind/.paypal/ . A search on the Internet revealed that this address belongs to an ISP in Korea. They had an english...

Tags: e-mail, jdmercha, PayPal, phishing, security

Discussion threads 2005-01-27

Novell Client Locks

Brand new Dell Lattitude. MS XP SP2 with firewall off.Novell client 4.9 SP2At Novell login machine will blue screen about 40% of the time. Will boot fine to safe mode, and will boot fine normally after having been shut down from safe mode. XP is set to auto login to...

Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP, Desktops, Novell Client, Novell Inc., Novell client 4.9 SP2, Service Pack 2

Q&A 2005-01-25

Where are the jobs?

Do other people see the IT industry like I do? If you check the job boards there are actually quite a few IT job openings. Many of them for entry level positions and many for experienced professionals. But there are very few high level jobs (Probably because they just don't...

Tags: job, information technology, job board, jdmercha, it management

Discussion threads 2004-10-21

Dissappearing service.lck

I have a web servet running Windows 2000 server. It also runs FrontPage extensions. I uninstalled and reinstalled the extensions. The IIS manager shows that the extensions need to be updated, but they will not update. When trying to connect to the webserver through Frontpage On a remote machine I...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Servers, Microsoft Windows 2000, virus, server

Discussion threads 2004-10-15

Additional Resources

Can't purge a print job in WIndows XP

I have a PC running Windows XP Professional that has an HP Deskjet 5650 printer directly attached to it. Two days ago it started printing something labeled "ASCII dump" or something along those lines. I tried stopping and restarting the spooler service, cancelling the print job, restarting the print job,...

Tags: ALK, BuffaloTodd, frozen print job, hardware, help, Hewlett-Packard Co., job, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, print spooler, printer, printer issues, spooler, windows xp

Discussion threads 2005-11-18

pc slooowing dowwwnnn

My pc has slowly begun to slow down on it's response times in opening applications and running programmes. I've checked for spyware, virus', defragged, reinstalled upgrade, msconfigged but no improvement at all. example WMPlayer repeatedly crashed repeatedly when opened, Firefox takes 1 minute plus to open, etc, etc....

Tags: disk, PC, Techjunkie, windows

Discussion threads 2005-03-10

High dollar low performance network

I work for a large healthcare facility that spends a lot of money on its network and on technology in general. Everything looks and sounds really good, but in reality, the network performance sucks. Remote administration task that should only take a minute or two takes an half...

Tags: azul, large network poor performance, network, off-topic, performance

Discussion threads 2005-11-16

Antivirus Removing Itself from Win2000

I was wondering if anyone is using Symantec Corporate Antivirus version 8.1 We are using it at work and it shows which computers it is protecting and when they were scanned. I just recently scanned by IP group and found that a punch of my machines were not...

Tags: antivirus, bmurphy@..., software, windows

Q&A 2005-03-16