Just wanted to give a sneak peak at the space we’re renovating to bring our team under one roof. With studio space as it is in Nelson we’re going to renovating a good basement workshop, adding office space and making room for an open work area. We’re slated to be fully completed and moved in [...]
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April 18th, 2010Google Desktop Centralized Server
February 20th, 2010We have a client who makes extensive use of folders and files to store and processing incoming orders for their business. As they have experienced explosive growth the size of this system has made it harder and harder to find the correct client, or correct order quickly. What would be great for them is a [...]
Read moreRegain Access to a Locked Domain Controller
February 5th, 2010After the administrator left a local company Green-Light was called into to regain access to the domain and domain controller. Nothing really malicious occurred here but there were password issues after this staff member left and the organization was left without a local admin password and without the admin password for Active Directory. Too many organizations find themselves in similar positions at [...]
Read moreThunderbird 3 Litters Desktop on OS X
February 4th, 2010After upgrading to TB3 users on Mac OSX ones finds that a copy of every attachment you open is saved to the Desktop. There is a underlying problem in the Gecko engine causing this, but until then the fix is pretty simple. Click Thunderbird > Preferences > Attachments Select “Save files to..” click “Choose..” Hit COMMAND+SHIFT+G [...]
Read moreThe Folly of CIRA WHOIS Privacy Changes
January 29th, 2010We are currently in the midst of trying to re-obtain an expired .ca domain for one of our customers. This particular individual decided many years after a re-branding they no longer needed their old domain name and let it expire. Letting your domain expire is typical, getting it back is hard, CIRA is now making [...]
Read moreApple A4
January 27th, 2010A few years ago Steve Jobs made a bit of a deal about the fact that the chips of the day had terrible power/watt performance. Chips then and now needed alot of power to do their calculations, they ran hot and they were inefficient, in mobile devices this combination is a battery killer. Apple wanted [...]
Read moreNew Boxee Beta 0.9.20.10408, script updated
January 25th, 2010Boxee has released a new public beta and the script links have been updated to take advantage of that. Just re-run the script with the same option you used last time. If you used latest last time use latest again, if you didn’t you don’t need to add it. As far as the version of [...]
Read moreStats and Maps and More Stats
January 22nd, 2010Data presentation is critically important in todays world. Choosing the right graph for the right audience is an art that even I can’t say I’m master of. Even so this presentation of w3cschools.org’s browser stats for the last 7 years is impressively beauitful. Take a look.
Read moreBoxee Bleeding Beta Baby
January 22nd, 2010Check Out the Updated Post Looks like there is alot of interest in getting Boxee Beta on the Apple TV. While we’re still waiting for an official release from Boxee I have updated our script with a few new features. Latest: Latest will use the latest component software instead of what’s considered most stable. Right [...]
Read moreClinton enters the fray
January 21st, 2010On the heels of last nights surprise announcement from google. Hilary Clinton has called publicly for answers from China. Surprised by the expediency of the reaction from the official channels of the US government? Don’t be, Eric Schmidt a founder of Google was involved in the Obama Campaign, power and money buy influence. Regardless the next few days will prove [...]
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