For small businesses, Cloud solutions seem to deliver innovation, productivity and profitability with ease. You don’t have to sit around and wait for the “I.T. guy” to install something on a server, then install something else on your computer. It’s all enabled by just signing up to a service in your web browser and entering…
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Can Kentik end the performance blame game?
As part of the Tech Field Day Extra crew at Interop 2016, I got to sit in on a great presentation by Avi Freedmanfrom Kentik. I’d never heard of them, which is not surprising given my Australian-based SMB world, but I sat with an open mind as Avi talked about Enterprise (and larger) networking concepts. It’s always so great when a…
Can Kentik end the performance blame game?
As part of the Tech Field Day Extra crew at Interop 2016, I got to sit in on a great presentation by Avi Freedmanfrom Kentik. I’d never heard of them, which is not surprising given my Australian-based SMB world, but I sat with an open mind as Avi talked about Enterprise (and larger) networking concepts. It’s always so great when a…
Reckon Accounts Pro 2013 error Error 1920. Service QuickBooks Database manager Service (QBCFMonitorService) failed to start
Today I upgraded my laptop to Windows 8.1 Pro. By ‘upgrade’ I actually mean backed up, formatted & installed Windows cleanly. It went surprisingly well and was pretty fast. The only Microsoft glitch I had were some updated that failed to install until after I rebooted, then away they went (though they gave me no…
Fixing Code 19 error in device manager for CD/DVD drive – configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged
Windows XP laptop with a DVD writer not working – can’t see or play CDs or DVDs, not even appearing as a drive letter. Device manager shows the drive with an exclamation mark and the error: “Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. To fix…
When business & IT collide.
I had the pleasure of showing a team the features of their new CRM software. Have I lost you yet with how boring that sentence is? Fortunately the reality was far from boring. To me – the CRM system is a plugin to a Joomla website. There are some bits I can configure & some bits…