"fuel save pro   compatibility to ethernet in addition to Wi-Fi, and for that reason enable completely wireless operations and data ment. The consumer can switch the retrieved information by using...

Happy New Year to you, too, Grant.

I only ever made one New Year's resolution (many years ago), and that was not to make any New Year's resolutions in the...

Now for my annual exhortation to you all.  I'm sure you are tired of this...

Besides your career evaluation it is time for your after-career evaluation too.  Someday you won't have...

My year end evaluation:  "Wow, was I ever lucky!"  My IT career began in 1969 when my friend Robert Maple invited me to visit him at Bendix Corporation in South...

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Brian, I agree that for a vdj system you don't need a whole lot of power.  Mine runs on a little 11" Samsung netbook, but with a really good output...

As I have recommended before, again I really like and recommend the Asus ROG (Republic of Gamers) laptops.  I'm on my fourth one in the series, that I think is...

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Backing up your photos and personal documents to removable storage and then losing it is a nightmare scenario. For that reason, I think thumb drives and SD cards are...

Something else that amazes me... when I was 5 years old in Detroit (circa 1957), we had the latest and greatest dialess phone... where you needed an operator to...

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I use portable hard drives for my personal systems because the internet is not truly global and I go to many places where it is not possible to get...

What do you mean 'still using'?  Historically, my first 'portable drives' were on an IBM 360-50 and an IBM 360-30 at work about 1968 with four storage units with two...

Thanks.  I think I got a workaround by removing the second monitor in Win, forcing Ssms to open on the one, than re-registering the second monitor.  Had another app doing...

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I'm trying to learn to do better at writing things down in a planner. But then I get too busy to write it all down and things lapse or...

You've all heard me say this  before, but I will repeat that the greatest thief of time at work is meetings.  My smart-ass comment has been that if a meeting...

In my last position some of the DBAs and a couple mainframe developers who had offices close by around our server room came to regularly do social things for several,...

To follow up on my first response. My wife and I did over the years of OUR careers actually invest in 529 plans for five grandchildren.  The benefits of these...