By dcouper

One laptop per child project underway

The One Laptop Per Child project (www.laptop.org) appears to be gathering momentum, with production under way and orders starting to come in. Nicknamed the $100 laptop – at the moment the actual price will be around $175. The hope is, however, that as orders increase,…

By Alex Costa

Removing Programs from Windows Startup

Users often notice that after a few weeks of buying a new computer it starts to run slower and the boot process takes a lot longer than when it was turned on for the first time. There are programs like Apple QuickTIme, Realplayer, JavaRT and…

By dcouper

Wireless Router connection problems

One of the things that I get called about frequently here at my job (despite not really being in technical support), is people saying that their internet is down and can I help them get back on. The main complaints are that either ‘I cannot…

By Alex Costa

Wireshark – Network Traffic sniffer

A network sniffer is an essential tool for any system/network administrator. The famous Ethereal used by the Linux has now a nice GUI (also for Windows), a different name and a new company behind it. Wireshark works by catching all the traffic on one or…

By Bill Hutchison

Schedule a Windows 2003 Server Restart

While doing a Service Pack Update on Symantec Backup Exec on our main Windows Server 2003 file server I was told that I needed to restart the file server to complete the update. Since this is the file server for our entire office shutting it…