by progadmin | Apr 1, 2009 | Solutions
I have been in the IT Support business since 1986 and I have seen a lot of changes. In the late 1980s I saw Artisoft LANtastic create millions of workstations in a peer-to-peer topology that enable very small businesses to create a shared network without having the...
by progadmin | Mar 31, 2009 | Microsoft, Opinion
I have been in IT Support since 1986. I got my first PC/XT back then and it was a very exciting time. But the last 10 years have been horrible. The industry used to be so exciting. We had to replace our computers about every 18 months because the software kept getting...
by progadmin | Mar 30, 2009 | Solutions
Well, we helped a client by installing a new Iomega Network Attached Storage (NAS) system to their network. We installed it to replace the fileserver. A previous consulting group had installed a Workstation as a fileserver. It was 99% full and had no RAID or...
by progadmin | Mar 29, 2009 | Cabling, Definitions
I got a call from a T1 provider that was looking for a cabling solution at an embassy here in Washington, DC. They wanted us to connect two buildings together with a Cat5 cable that would extend the T1 internet service from one building to the other. Both buildings...
by progadmin | Oct 4, 2008 | Solutions
Well, I don’t know how long a good thing like this will last. But I was looking around on the Internet and I was searching for an inexpensive remote control solution. For my company, Progressive Office, we frequently need to be able to remotely control a client...
