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Comment on Rogers Rocket Stick Rant by dsleeman

dsleeman — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:23:38 +0000

http://www.rogers.com/myrogers will get you to the right place. Just have to noodle your way through from there.

Comment on Rogers Rocket Stick Rant by Taylor5

Taylor5 — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:18:10 +0000

Where on Rogers site do you activate you rocket stick? I’ve been looking all morning.

Comment on Google Apps for Business? Not. by jodie_microsoft_smb

jodie_microsoft_smb — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:24:34 +0000

In addition to potentially costing more, Google Apps may also cause double work or extra effort when it comes to formatting and calendar items. Here’ a link with additional information to compare: http://smb.ms/Outreachdv5zaE

Regards,
Jodi E.
Microsoft SMB Outreach Team
msftoft@microsoft.com

Comment on APC PowerChute 8.0.1, Server 2008 & Hyper-V by jfrmilner

jfrmilner — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:36:16 +0000

This has been fixed in PowerChute Business Edition 5 Node v9.0

Regards,
jfrminer

Comment on APC PowerChute 8.0.1, Server 2008 & Hyper-V by Caleb

Caleb — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:22:50 +0000

Here are 2 good articles that give some additional info on this.

http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/microsoft-hyper-v-articles/general/power-management-hyper-v-Part1.html

http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/microsoft-hyper-v-articles/general/power-management-hyper-v-Part2.html

Comment on APC PowerChute 8.0.1, Server 2008 & Hyper-V by Nadim J

Nadim J — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:08:17 +0000

Well, the muppet at APC who made this decision has resulted in us looking at other UPSs for a 300 site roll out!

Well done big nose. Well done.

Comment on Cloud Computing – Risk & Reward by Greg Charland

Greg Charland — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:22:09 +0000

I agree with your line of thinking. Tech people who say, “we never have problems” need…ummm…education.

That said, it’s unfortunate that [software vendor pretending to be a cloud service provider] isn’t more distinguishable from someone who’s doing it right. [cloud service provider]‘s product is simply a hosted application that is housed in a single data center on a single rack of application servers.

WE know that’s not “true cloud” where you have distributed storage and power a la s3 or even a distributed application like the 10,000 e-commerce sites that can withstand a data center outage.

Problem is, the average business owner trusts the [software vendor who wants to be a cloud service provider] name and figures, “if THEY can’t do it right, who can?”

Even Microsoft had some serious issues with their Office Live Small Business service…made us ask, “Would Microsoft do something this stupid?”

Maybe that’s part of the business model. Undermine trust in the hosted app to make people still buy the desktop product.

Comment on Home Internet Safety and OpenDNS by OpenDNS and FamilyShield « Ramblings on IT

OpenDNS and FamilyShield « Ramblings on IT — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:02:50 +0000

[...] OpenDNS has recently released their ‘FamilyShield’ service, which is essentially the same service as OpenDNS Basic – EXCEPT, you don’t have to sign up for an account or figure out all the dynamic IP address updating stuff I explained in my previous post. [...]

Comment on APC PowerChute 8.0.1, Server 2008 & Hyper-V by Jose Martins

Jose Martins — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:27:40 +0000

Having always preferred APC equipment for the last 10 years, now its time to change …

Comment on IT Weapons 10th Anniversary by Ted Garner

Ted Garner — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:02:46 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Dave!

See you in Ottawa in August!

Take care,

Ted