Steve Radich's Blog

Help: My site is indexed with https:// instead of http:// in google

support@bitshop.com — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:01:00 GMT

When I google for my site it returns the https:// secure site instead of my normal site.

SPAM: Internal Revenue Service W-2 form update?

sales@bitshop.com — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:21:00 GMT

Spams are such a pain, but when you get a letter from the IRS saying to update your W-2 form you may be tempted to open it.

The exact message I received was:

From: Internal Revenue Service
Subject: W-2 form update

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Traveling and use T-Mobile? Expect no phone service..

sales@bitshop.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:59:00 GMT

Those that know me know I carry two cell phones, from two companies, using two different radio technologies to make sure I have coverage anywhere I go.. T-Mobile has been my GSM provider since 2003.. but last weekend I found a surprise.. They dropped coverage in...

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QWest refuses ALL email if you write to a bad email address?

sales@bitshop.com — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:14:00 GMT

QWest, the telecom, using unusually strong arm tactics is refusing all email from us because they say a large % of emails going to people's accounts are accounts who have full mailboxes or no longer use QWest service (but haven't updated their email address with our customers).

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QuickBooks - PDF Printer - Add Port - Access Denied

sales@bitshop.com — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:21:00 GMT

We run QuickBooks via Remote Desktop for some customers (locked down server, ONLY allows quickbooks and nothing else). A customer trying to configure the Quickbooks PDF Printer couldn't get it to work.

When they tried to "Add Port" they received "Access Denied"

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How can I manage multiple OpenVPN connections on one machine?

sales@bitshop.com — Mon, 10 May 2010 23:53:00 GMT

OpenVPN, a free VPN offering, is a great solution for accessing your internal network – We support various configurations with OpenVPN including virtual offices allowing any computer in the virtual office access to any other computer.

Sometimes however you need to run more than one VPN client, the reasons for this can be complex but if you need to know how you can…

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Reading MAC USB keys on a Windows Machine

sales@bitshop.com — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:29:00 GMT

Today I was helping a nonprofit and received a gig or so of images on a USB key from the printing company - The key was mine but they formatted it to erase the files - It wasn't FAT32 so the Mac didn't read it natively (not really sure what it was, that's beside the point).

When I got back to our office I plugged in the key and found it was an unrecognized partition - The printing company was closed by now, so I was on my own to figure out how to read a MAC USB key on my Windows desktop..

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VIDEO: How to add downloadable files in your menu

suggest@bitshop.com — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:04:00 GMT

This is a quick video walk through of how to add downloadable files to your menu in DotNetNuke.

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Resource Monitor - Handy but CPU Intensive?

support@bitshop.com — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:11:00 GMT

Windows 2008 has a new tool - Resource Monitor - which gives us some handy information in a quick, easy to visualize way. However this information doesn't come free.

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It's time to call it quits when Task Manager agrees..

suggest@bitshop.com — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:43:00 GMT

You'll have to click read more to see the screen shot and fully appreciate the fact my computer KNEW it was nice out and that I was tired anyway.

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