old stuff from February, 2006

skype: first impressions on 2.0

Sunday, 12 February 2006 10:29 am by noel
posted in stuff

last night i was chatting with martin, an old college friend of mine, over yahoo and he asked if we can talk. he moved to canada with his family last year. i was able to talk to him before along with a couple more of our friends over at yahoo messenger but last night for [...]

don’t just do forwards

Friday, 10 February 2006 10:54 pm by noel
posted in e-mail, stuff, support

every once in a while i get a really long e-mail (or chain e-mail) from a friend or co-worker. i usually have to press the page-down key several times to reach the actual message which is usually very short. everything else before the message are the e-mail addresses where the message has been forwarded to [...]

burn-in

Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:46 pm by noel
posted in hardware, stuff, support

it happened to me before, new computer for new personnel. both comes in the same day. after a week the computer is doing blue screens and memory dumps at least three times a day. it took a couple of hours of diagnostics, a week to replace the bad memory module and a couple of days [...]

open source in the workplace

Monday, 6 February 2006 9:26 pm by noel
posted in firewall, software, stuff, support

i recently got a comment from ace about a post on outlook express that i feel deserve a longer reply. here’s his comment:
why would a security paranoid system admin use outlook ?????
use thunderbird it is better than using that outlook
support opensource software!
for starters, i do support open software. i use it and recommend it in [...]

support for tech support

Thursday, 2 February 2006 10:33 am by noel
posted in stuff, support

i am in tech support. once in a while i get ask some help from companies that supply services for us or one of our clients in situations that are beyond my reach. to give you a background, i was asked by a client to add a couple of e-mail addresses to their e-mail host. [...]