Category: Tech Talk General

Backup software solutions are straightforward for the typical emergency restoration of data from unexpected hardware failures or accidentally deletions. But we don’t always appreciate the wealth of archival data kept in deep storage file stores […]

As I wind down a nearly four decade career working in technology, I’m asked what advice I have to create a long term tech career. These are some major categories to keep in mind. Build […]

Having worked in diverse technical roles since 1983 in a range of industry verticals for companies from 10 person sole proprietors to 60k plus enterprises, I’m inspired to add these brief comments to the stream […]

Pittsburgh is a great city where the information technology community covers the full diversity of technology, company sizes and opportunity. In addition, the Greater Pittsburgh area has everything from city to suburban communities to rural […]

There are many in the field of Information Technology that continually argue about what college degree and IT certifications mean for competency of the IT professional. This is my contribution to that never ending debate. […]

The ability to restart a computer either local or remote from the command line is useful in a variety of circumstances. When remote desktop into an XP machine only log off and disconnect are the […]

This year I was able to take the official Microsoft course 6292 on Windows 7 and then subsequently passed the “Configuring Windows 7” exam 70-680. I now have the MCTS Windows 7 moniker. I’ve compiled […]

A list of links collected over the last four years of programming in PHP & MYSQL for the web. These sites have proven useful for various functions. I use Dreamweaver with Homesite on the PC […]

I recently had to do some calculations to carve out big blocks of ip addresses for forwarding and nat rules. They varied by each site I was connecting because of the locally assigned internal address. […]