Always get a second opinion, right?

I met with another IT company to get a second bid for our computer upgrades. (I would have done so anyway, but the fact that the first guy I met with disappeared after promising a quote the next day made it quite necessary.) They came highly recommended by my old boss at RHA, and after just a few minutes it ( Read more... )

Met with a professional IT guy today.  I showed him our computers and described what we expected for the project and the approximate timeline we were looking at. His feedback was not too encouraging.  He described our computer upgrade as a "big" project due to the number of machines, the way they're scattered throughout the building, and the ( Read more... )

One of the Board members called to see if he could come down to get help on a Powerpoint presentation.  It isn't a particularly good morning for it, since I have to finish up the draft for the minutes from the last Board meeting and the Clubhouse is booked for a memorial service later today.  I asked him what he needed help with; if it was easy, I ( Read more... )

We're in the middle of a implementing a new software system at RHA.  The new system will make it easier for residents to keep their contact information up-to-date and view work orders from their home computer, and it helps us by streamlining several processes in the office.  But to make the system work, we have to manually enter the residents' ( Read more... )

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My laptop's been giving me problems lately.  Sometimes, when I try to turn it on in the morning, the machine will boot up by the screen remains black and blank.  This happens when the laptop is completely off and when it's 'waking up' from sleep mode.   This was bad enough, but I could live with it - I'd just keep trying to boot it up until the ( Read more... )

So for some reason that I just don't understand, the front desk computer at work keeps getting infected with malicious "antivirus" software. Somehow, I download these rogue programs that masquerade as antivirus programs; they take over the computer and prevent you from opening other applications and try to steer the user to a website where they ( Read more... )