by wwarren | Mar 25, 2011 | AT&T
If you are on T-Mobile stick with your current plan and phone until they turn those phones off. ATT is going to effectively jack your prices 25% or more when you “switch”. Read the linked article for an excellent breakdown. How To Lose 90% Of A...
by wwarren | Mar 21, 2011 | Security
If you have stuff you have been hanging onto this is one good way to safely destroy it. Want2Dish – Business – County / City – Frederick County Bank Hosting Free Community Shred Day.
by wwarren | Mar 20, 2011 | Smartphone
And there were 3…Sprint, ATT, and Verizon. Nearly every other carrier buys time form one of these big three. I’m wondering how much longer will Sprint hang in there? AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom —...
by wwarren | Mar 19, 2011 | Blackberry, Hardware, Smartphone
I had a Deacon at my church today ask me about getting audio streams from emergency scanners onto his phone. I said no problem and that I would take a look at it. I fired up blackberry app world. After I had the Deacon enter his password it asked for permission to...
by wwarren | Mar 18, 2011 | Microsoft, Security, Windows
Rustock is apparently severely crippled if not dead. I noticed at least a 30% drop in spam volumes across the networks I manage. I began looking at feeds, checking other security sites and the rumor was Rustock had been taken down by a concerted effort similar to...
by wwarren | Mar 18, 2011 | Microsoft, Office, Office 15, Server 2008, Server 8, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8
As the software landscape changes and so does technology so does my recommendations for clients. The biggest one right now is do you buy windows 7/server 2008 now or wait? ECC is saying to wait unless you absolutely MUST upgrade now. Why? 2012-2013 Windows 8,...
by wwarren | Mar 17, 2011 | Linux, Microsoft, Open Source, Security
Unix admins have known this for a long time. There is only one way to reliably clean ANY infected machine…wipe and reload. For a long time, the best-practices approach to malware infections has been to re-format and re-image the infected machine from...
by wwarren | Mar 15, 2011 | Hardware, Microsoft
Microsoft has a loooong history of partnering with companies only to undercut them..IBM and OS/2(which MS morphed into NT, then 2k, XP, Vista, Windows 7, *..etc etc etc) Novell(which they used to develop Active Directory then cut the legs form under Novell).etc etc....
by wwarren | Mar 13, 2011 | Cloud Computing
clients with ATT DSL or UVERSE please read the bolded area. If you are heavily into p2p or online movies(like youtube or netflix) this most likely will impact you. Keep in mind you only have to breach the cap 3 times per the lifetime you have the service..not per...
by wwarren | Mar 13, 2011 | Microsoft, SBS 2008, Server 2008, Windows
I just figured out SBS2008 does NOT automatically setup roaming profiles. This explains why i’m having issues with the desktops not matching when the users roam because the profiles are all local. Unfortunately one of the users has his hdd die and this spewed...
