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The company I work for has been using Novell 4.11 for a long time. It might be old, but it works great. After all these years, Microsoft still doesn’t have Active Directory working as easily as NDS (in my opinion). Anyway, we are finally migrating to Active Directory, and one of the big challenges is login …
I work as an IT Manager at a company, and we have a mixed Novell/Microsoft network. We are slowly phasing out the Novell portion of the network, and are dealing more and more with Microsoft permissions. The permissions options used to be complicated, but as new generations of server operating systems come around, things get …
From the New York Times: If you own a Windows-based PC, you may like the operating system well enough. Or you may merely tolerate it, if you give it much thought at all. But whatever your feeling, “love” probably isn’t the word that immediately comes to mind to describe it. I bring this up because …
Once or twice a week when I’m at work I need to connect to my home computer to look something up. I have my router configured to let my RDP session in, but if my wife or children are using the computer, I end up kicking them off. If it’s my children, they don’t know …
From the New York Times: If that headache plaguing you this morning led you first to a Web search and then to the conclusion that you must have a brain tumor, you may instead be suffering from cyberchondria. On Monday, Microsoft researchers published the results of a study of health-related Web searches on popular search …
From ITBusiness.ca: If you’ve been using Microsoft Word for the past quarter of a century, it can seem like Word has always been the top dog of the word-processing world–and for years, it’s been incorporated into Microsoft’s Office suite. Today, Microsoft’s domination is so complete that, from the public’s point of view, there is almost …
From PCWorld.ca: Is your PC tired and sluggish? Has its get up and go got up and went? If you want a faster system, you could certainly break the bank and buy a new machine. Or you could read this article instead. We’ve found 50 downloads that will make your PC run more quickly and …
From PCWorld.ca: Imagine how different the computing world would be if IBM had used proprietary chips in the original PC, rather than off-the-shelf components. The PC clone market would never have happened, and IBM, rather than Microsoft, might have emerged as the leading company of the computer revolution. Or if Steve Jobs had never taken …