Steve and all,

By coincidence you mention enjoying Colorado today.  I too have loved the mountains since my first visit in the early 60's.  Today, at 1:30  PM my wife and...

Unfortunately, "good enough" is often good enough, even if it does result in a bit of downtime.

This attitude was always the most disappointing aspect of my years in IT.  It...

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Jeff, thank you for sharing your experience and memories with us.  I believe you and I have lots in common.  I think one gift you and I share is that...

Louis, I guess maybe I'm not the one to say that I have a 'gift', but I definitely had a desire and the motivation.  Of course, I started my career...

On the subject of non-profits I would also urge us all to donate some time and support to those who  administer and keep records for the organizations we and our...

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I'm stuck on Windows 7 on my home laptop. Windows 10 can't install due to an incompatibility which MS says the hardware vendor should fix but the hardware...

• "If you had flood damage or worse - your house burnt down - you pictures, files and music would be far from your mind to start with but eventually...

First, I have two internal drives, with my DATA directory backed up to the second.  Then I have a NAS device also with two 1TB internal drives that I also...

Another simple tip to make sure you don't lose stuff. Get yourself a Office 365 subscription which not only gives you the latest version of Office at all times...

Interesting topic.  I ended up getting my Mom a new Win10 PC to replace her Win7 PC just last week.  She didn't need it at all, however, the end...

Well, I go back all the way to Windows 286 ( or was it 386, so long ago I'm not sure any more ), and the Apple 2+ before that. ...

Yes, I believe that early on, I may have been a sucker.  I always truly loved my work, but not always the circumstances.  In my earlier days, after becoming a...

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Sanjarani, I found the same regarding debugging tools.   I could do a better job of debugging by embedding my own selects, prints, and using temporary tables for intermediate results.   These...

Our local large medical group has had signs posted for the past two years that they are going through modifications to their systems and asking for consideration.  During this week's...

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Over 42 yeas in IT I worked in shops from four to one hundred thirty people.  The largest contributor to individual 'burn-out' was the advent of non-technical 'project managers' in...