I couldn’t wait. I watched with eager anticipation for Apple to release Mac OS X Lion. I could barely contain my excitement!
And when they finally did… I paid my $29.99 and downloaded it form the App store onto my existing Mac OS X Snow Leopard installation (patched and up-to-date) and then waited as the operating system updated itself.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been taking a serious look at open-source backup server solutions.
The three main contenders that I looked at were:
One of my clients has been plagued with very slow, near unresponsive Small Business Server 2008. After checking memory usage and processes, I noticed that one process in particular was hogging way more memory than it ever should. In fact, it was using more than a gigabyte of memory on its own!
Windows SBS2K8 left me a nasty surprise on my doorstep this morning. My first support call happened right at 8AM. Panicked user called to tell me that his notebook wouldn’t start. After a bit of digging around and troubleshooting over the phone, I finally found out that his SBS2K8 server pushed out the Windows 7 SP1 update automatically on Patch Tuesday (March 8), and his notebook received the update last night and… well… failed.
After updating to Windows 7 SP1, everything looked good. That is, until I launched a program that used intense graphics…
If you are currently running Windows 7, then you’ll likely see a critical update notification advising you to install service pack 1.
General availability of Untangle 8.1 has been announced. The latest version includes a new application for caching web content as well as a host of enhanced features and improvements.
Welcome to the new web-face of Marari Network Solutions.
The new layout uses the following structure:
