Blog Entries tagged 'Geek' http://www.itnow.net Sun, 05 Sep 2010 10:06:48 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.itnow.net/blog/Reasons-I.T.-Companies-Stay-in-Business.html <p>Click to Enlarge &gt;&gt;</p><p><img src="http://www.itnow.net/images//reasons-it-companies-sm.jpg" alt="" /> </p><p>Click to Enlarge &gt;&gt; </p> ssl@iostreamsolutions.com Sun, 25 Apr 2010 07:00:00 +0100 Tech hardware http://www.itnow.net/blog/Open-Microsoft-Office-in-half-a-second-100.html <p>Here is an impressive demonstration by Samsung that shows you how slow your hard drive really is, and how fast solid state drives are.</p><p></p><p>The only catch? This demo is using about $20,000 worth of hardware. A bit pricey, by with computers, what is $20,000 now might be $2000 in the future.</p> chris@itnow.net Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0100 Tech PC hard drive http://www.itnow.net/blog/Google-ANalytics.html <p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.google.com/analytics/images/features/keyword_campaign.gif" alt="alt" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" /></p><p>Hello, my name is Craig, and I am addicted to Google Analytics. &nbsp;I feel better having said that. If you aren&rsquo;t using Google Analytics for your website, you are missing out on all the fun. Why might you ask? Well, what&rsquo;s the point of having a website if you don&rsquo;t know how people are using it?</p>&nbsp;<img src="http://www.google.com/ [...] craig@itnow.net Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0100 Tech http://www.itnow.net/blog/The-Big-Cloud-in-the-Sky.html <p><img height="300" alt="alt" hspace="5" width="190" align="left" src="http://grokscience.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/question-cloud.jpg" />When I first heard the term cloud computing, I thought it was just putting your server in a data center and accessing it from anywhere. This is a similar concept, and has its benefits. About a year ago we lost power in our office for about 3 hours. All of our servers were in-house, connected to a big UPS battery backup that lasted all of about 20 minutes [...] phil@itnow.net Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:00:00 +0100 Tech server Data Protection http://www.itnow.net/blog/Virtually-Amazing.html <p><img height="320" alt="alt" hspace="5" width="240" align="right" src="http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/378/dsc01290he1.jpg" />A couple of years ago we decided to dive into the world of server virtualization.  This is an amazing technology that allows us to run multiple operating systems on a single server. One server can act like many.  Microsoft servers run better when their tasks are focused. Take a mail server for example.   You wouldn&rsquo;t want your mail server to also host your [...] phil@itnow.net Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:00:00 +0100 VMware Tech server hardware http://www.itnow.net/blog/Why-I-Love-my-Blackberry.html <p><img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/01/t-mobile-blackberry-curve-8900-review-13.jpg" border="5" alt="alt" title="title" width="300" height="200" align="right" /></p><p>i.t.NOW is a Microsoft Shop. We support Macintosh, Linux, VMWare, and various other platforms, but the vast majority of our clients are running Microsoft servers and workstations. Our office, as well, is mostly Microsoft. Even down to the smartphones that we use. However, I stand alone with my Bla [...] craig@itnow.net Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:00:00 +0100 Tech cell phone http://www.itnow.net/blog/So-frustrated-I-could-scream-.html <p>Have you ever been so mad at your computer that you scream? Admit it, we all do. This video proves that screaming at your computer might not be the best thing.<br /> &nbsp;</p> <br/><br/><br/><br/><p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Without being too geeky, this person is measuring the speed of the drives and when he screams at them, there is a peak showing latency, or slower response time.</p> craig@itnow.net Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:00:00 +0100 Tech server hardware hard drive http://www.itnow.net/blog/Holy-terabytes-Batman-.html <p>If I&rsquo;d asked anyone what a thousand gigabytes is called 10 years ago, they&rsquo;d look at my like I was crazy.  No one could even fathom that much storage. </p><br/><p><img alt="alt" align="left" src="http://www.itnow.net/images/stories/blog/superstock_1491r-1040103.jpg" />A few months ago, Seagate announced the worlds largest desktop hard drive, 1.5 TB.  That TB means terabytes, otherwise known as 1,500 gigabytes, 1,500,000 megabytes, 1,500,000,000 kilobytes, you get the idea.  To pu [...] phil@itnow.net Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:00:00 +0100 Tech hardware hard drive backups http://www.itnow.net/blog/I-Love-Technology-.html <p>For those who know me, you know that I love technology. I am the one who has a new cell phone every six to nine months. My house has more computers than it does people. I am always reading blogs that tell me about new products that are coming out. I am often asked why I love technology so much (usually by my wife as I tell her about the new cell phone I have to buy) so I often wonder, is it simply because I want the newest gadget out there? I would like to think there is a better reason than [...] craig@itnow.net Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100 VMware Tech server Productivity PC Dell cell phone