about 2 months ago - 1 comment
I love this time of year. I live in San Diego, so the weather doesn’t get cold enough to snow, but it’s chilly enough to wear jackets. It’s like the best of both worlds here. I get the cold, but don’t have to do any shoveling or driving on icy roads. Win win! Let’s be…
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Hello Boys and Girls, It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long…
about 2 years ago - 9 comments
Hey Kiddies, Commodore 64 here to bring another tidbit of good advice from all of us to all of you. Along with this tasty piece of techie goodness is a brief admin-ography of the history of AskTheAdmin.com. We’ve come a long way folks, and we think we’ve finally found the true nexus point of our…
about 2 years ago - 18 comments
For the past two months something has been going on with our firewall at the office. I use JFFNMS to monitor my network and I began receiving notifications that certain services and ports on the firewall were randomly closing and opening. I tried to see what was going on, but nothing turned up in the…
about 2 years ago - 7 comments
So you don’t want to dole out the big bucks for some fancy smancy cd/dvd authoring suite just to burn cd’s and disk images? Or how about you don’t want the bloat from said suite? No it’s probably that you are just like me and a big cheapskate when it comes to buying software! Either…
about 2 years ago - No comments
I don’t know anyone who doesn’t get a call from a telemarketer at least once a week if not much more. They’ll call and leave no message and annoy the heck out of you. Unfortunately, some of these calls are actually made by criminals who try to get your personal information. News articles over…
about 3 years ago - No comments
Almost 3 weeks in to the New Year and the Admin needs some rest – maybe a day off? Yeah right we have even more emails today and I am studying for my 2008 Microsoft Certs! This has been a big year for the AtA gang – stay tuned for more of our geeky flavored…
about 3 years ago - No comments
HAPPY HOLIDAYS kiddies, Comodore64 back again to shed some light for any newly ordained Mac users that are carrying over from the M$ world. Since Mac is gaining a kind of strangle hold on the industry, I’m pretty sure there are a lot of guys like myself who have a PC for certain purposes and…
about 3 years ago - 5 comments
“…Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don’t you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying…
about 3 years ago - 13 comments
That’s right kiddies! Ask The Admin brought it to you first. Don’t go knocking on Amazon‘s door today. Nobody will answer. Could it be that the Shopping GIANT of the net doesn’t even have server redundancy worked out right for itself? Anybody out there know anything about this? Doesn’t Amazon offer hosting services as well?…
Bandwidth monitor NetMeter graphs how much data’s going in and out of your PC over the internet.
