Archive for February, 2008

Free….freaking free!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

So another perk of Uverse….free Norton Anti-Virus! I hate keeping up with the Norton Anti-Virus subscriptions on all the computers. Pain in the ass. Well with AT&T Uverse with Yahoo we get full versions of Norton Anti-Virus with subscriptions for as long as we care customers. Not just one computer but up to 7!!! I [...]

Decommissioning a computer….saying goodbye to a good worker

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

So the Media center computer has been used very little since we got Uverse. Without a clean TV signal…not much need for it. I would turn it on every now and then….get it all warmed up…even connect via remote desktop and play around. Alas….it was time for it to go. The Media center computer has [...]

Success….mostly….well stuff is working

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

So this morning I drove over to Altex (www.altex.com) to pickup some short network cables and a bracket to mount the patch panel to the wall. I thought I wanted 12 inch cables. Nope. Way too short. A 12 inch cable is from end to end. The ends are about an inch and a half [...]

The hard part is done…or is it?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

So Eric came over Saturday and helped me wire up the house. It took a few hours but we had 13 drops done. I wanted to get the most difficult one’s out of the way while he was here. There was no way I could have done it solo. The drops we did were 6 [...]

Chicago

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Back from Chicago. We had a fun, cold time. The plans were to leave on the 6:40 AM flight on Tuesday. Well around 3:45 AM I woke up and decided to check in (Employees using travel benefits can only check in 4 hours prior). The flight had canceled. Suddenly all of the morning flights with [...]