Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Thursday

Started with a meeting, then off to a new client to collect his HP desktop.
His complaint is that its running slowly. Yes, well, 256RAM will do that.
Trouble is, the beast (it has to weight 30 lbs) uses PC600 RDRAM. Very expensive - an upgrade to the 1GB the motherboard will support will cost about $300 installed.

For my part, I've installed the usual security apps and killed unnecessary programs.
He was using a POS from Western Digital (I think) called Memeo to make backups. The system logs show that it also causes a lot of errors. I think I'll help him set up NT Backup instead.
The sw came with a WD external drive. The drive works fine, the sw is rubbish. That reminds me of all the heartache I had trying to get Yosemite to work with a Dell tape drive. Absolutely worthless.

Went to the Washtenaw County library by the Sheriff's office for training on how to use the county web servers. They use a content management system that looks really simple. Artistically constrained, but simple. I'll start administrating the York Township web site the first of May.

Still no word on the web admin credentials for the Friends of NRA site.... soon, I expect.

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