by wwarren | Jun 5, 2010 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Windows
I logged into a client’s machine today and saw this one sharepoint file was over 7 gigs in size. I am thinking this is one reason sharepoint has been pokey as of late. Some googling showed me that by default MS basically has the database in debug(which means...
by wwarren | May 30, 2010 | Linux, Microsoft, Windows
The times really are getting smaller and smaller. You really need to have 5 or more machines active. Running e-mail out of house can be done but it’s not easy as exchange really wants to be the mail hub(which makes since as it IS a full featured mail server). ...
by wwarren | Apr 11, 2010 | Apple, Microsoft, Open Source, Windows
This is by design. Chrome is multi-threaded and will distribute all aspects of the site(especially audio and video) across of all of your cores it can. This leads to high intensity sites NOT getting slow or having issues provided your bandwidth holds up. I have...
by wwarren | Apr 11, 2010 | Microsoft, Open Source, Vista, Windows, Windows 7
Microsoft has put out a winner this time. I have been running Windows 7 since the first beta. It runs perfectly on my old 1.6 ghz celeron notebook with 2 gigs of ram. Vista on the same machine was a horrid experience(yes Vista is that bad). The conventional wisdom...
by wwarren | Feb 24, 2010 | Microsoft, Office, Open Source, Security, Windows
The blame here is not online banking but the operating system(Windows) faulty design and the users lack of proper security education. ANY business no matter how small needs to have a security audit done: 1. To make sure your machines aren’t infected 2. To get...
by wwarren | Jan 19, 2010 | Microsoft, Security, Security Alerts, Windows
Full Disclosure: Microsoft Windows NT #GP Trap Handler Allows Users to Switch Kernel Stack. If you honestly believed Vista or 7 was a total rewrite because Microsoft said so this issue blows that straight out of the water. This is code from back in the nt.x days. ...