About two months ago, I ran across a cool little program called BitMeter. It allows you to monitor your internet connection on your workstation in real time.  I first started to use it to see if there were any programs accessing the Internet without my knowledge and I ended up keeping it because it’s kind [...]

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Problem:  Last week we were given a challenge to publish podcast’s and to do it quickly without any new hardware or purchasing software.  Thanks to Podcastingnews.com, I found something that worked for us.

Solution:  Decided to use LoudBlog which is a  free PHP based software that is similar to blog software.  However, they emphasize that this [...]

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Problem: Worked on a computer where the client installed the newest iTunes update.  Once the installation was finished, they got the following error when plugging in their iTouch, iPod or iPhone:  “This iPod cannot be used because the required software is not installed…”  It then tells you to uninstall iTunes and then reinstall which didn’t [...]

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Here is a problem/solution that happens to us from time to time on our Astaro Firewall.  Not very often, mind you, but enough to mention.
Problem:  All of a sudden the Internet seems to slow to a crawl and or down all together, using Astaro Security Gateway and the proxy is in transparent mode.  
Solution:  Login to [...]

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I thought I would wait a little longer but decided to pull the trigger and mountainvistatech.com is now operating fully on WordPress 2.5.  I followed the upgrade directions provided by wordpress.org and it went smoothly.  Turned on all my plugins and they worked as well and the first thing that I did was use the [...]

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