Microsoft and US Marshals bring down Zeus botnet servers [VIDEO]

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March 27, 2012 By

I read this “Microsoft and US Marshals bring down Zeus botnet servers [VIDEO]” article today. The video was a good watch.  

Windows 8 Consumer Preview on an old laptop

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March 9, 2012 By
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I wanted to try out Windows 8. I have a Dell Latitude 131L that was decently spec’ed for its time. I think it’s probably 5 years old. Let’s see if it’ll run Windows 8! Here are my quick notes as I attempted the install: 1. I downloaded the ISO image from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/iso …I also copied [...]

iPad HD

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March 6, 2012 By

Today I read all about the iPad hype. The best read was probably this “Next iPad will be the iPad HD, not the iPad 3” article. I was close to buying another iPad for my district, so I suppose I’ll wait this out and see what the next big thing has to offer.

Office for iPad

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February 22, 2012 By

Twas a busy day after President’s Day, so I didn’t have time for an epic What The… TECH post. I did get a chance to read this “Microsoft Office coming to the iPad” article. I’ll be happy to see this app, as my principals have been asking for their docs.

0xc0000034 error message on Windows 7

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February 16, 2012 By

I had a new Windows issue yesterday. A teacher computer that was behind on Windows updates had Service Pack 1 applied to it… well, almost… the update got stuck after rebooting. I was given a “fatal error” on 0xc0000034. Here was my solution: support.microsoft.com/KB/975484 Basically, this error comes up if you install Windows 7 Service [...]

iPads for Principals

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January 26, 2012 By

My principals have district-provided iPads that they use for teacher evaluations among other things. District-provided iPads are definitely a new thing for the district, and they are the first real non-Windows end user computer/device that I need to fully support. I had to come up with a sort of policy-or-somethin’-somethin’ so that I could feel [...]

2012

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January 4, 2012 By

Whelp, it’s my last day of Christmas vacation. Not that it’s been all vacation, as I did work some (upgraded PowerSchool, upgraded Office on a bunch of computers, and installed a new wireless network separate from the district’s so that faculty and students will be able to bring in their own personal devices… still working [...]

The Novell-Microsoft Hung Jury

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January 3, 2012 By

Today I came across this article on the Novell-Microsoft trial and its hung jury. I don’t know why I’m interested in this trial, but maybe its because I still have to provide technical support on Quattro Pro in my district from time to time. Central office still uses it some (Yeah, go ahead, laugh at [...]

print jobs stuck in queue – windows server 2003 and 2008

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November 10, 2011 By

Got print jobs stuck in the queue that won’t delete? Here’s a pretty fast way to clear them out: 1. On your server, check to see if there are other print jobs running in other queues. If there aren’t, no worries and you can continue. If there are, you’ll need to pay attention to the [...]

Configuring A Windows DNS Server – Forward Lookup Zones

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November 10, 2011 By

“My firewall went down. It’s OK, it’s OK, it’s gonna be OK, it’s gonna be OK. We can still access all our hosted web resources like PowerSchool, Destiny, etc. while I figure this out… /gulp PowerSchool is down too, you say? /checking-it-out-now… No, PowerSchool is fine, just my users can’t get to it. They go [...]