Published July 1st, 2009
in Technology.
Process Monitor
The guys from www.sysinternals.com struck it rich in July 2006 when Microsoft aquirred them . Their Filemon and Regmon tools has been incorporated into Process Monitor and this is a great tool to use if chaos has struck your system.
Process Monitor shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity on your system if you are hacked or have a virus this can often help you shutdown the process that is killing you.
SysInternal Tools aren’t for the faint of heart but they offer a 6 hour video DVD series to teach you how to troubleshoot with them. A free Introduction to SysInternals video is available for your pleasure.
HiJackThis
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/index.php
Windows Search
Don’t underestimate the power of the Windows Search functionality. I often use this to find files bigger than 1mb and or files created or modified within a date range. This is great if you are hacked you can find the hidden directories where the hackers store their warez. Don’t forget to check the box to search hidden and system files.
System Information for Windows (SIW)
http://www.gtopala.com/
This is a great tool to run routinely and when things have gone amiss. SIW performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings. We use it routinely to create a report for all our machines which is backed up along with the rest of the machine.
MSConfig - Microsoft System Configuration Utility
If you want to bring your system back to an all microsoft startup you can use msconfig.exe to temporarly disable all “non-microsoft” services and startups. This can be great if you have a rougue process or just want to get back to basics. Great usage tutorial can be found at NetSquirrel
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Published May 18th, 2009
in Technology.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Joomla based site www.pics-itech.com hosted on our self-service hosting service www.web-host.com. PICS ITech is a state of the art IT service designed to help small to medium sized businesses get more out of their IT dollars by using monitoring and preventative maintenance to cost effectively manage todays network environments.
Broadly speaking, PICS ITechmanages everything related to your desktops, networks and servers. PICS does specialized SQL database monitoring, e-mail protection and management, network management, server maintenance, desktop support, performance monitoring, patching, antivirus updates, software deployments and much more. We have teams of certified engineers and technicians delivering high levels of IT support from our Network Operations Center on 24×7 basis.
Visit www.picsitech.com for more information
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Published September 28th, 2008
in Uncategorized.
Im a good uncle so I went to my nephews Clone Wars Birthday Party. Being 5 years old my nephew loves The Clone Wars. To be honest I didn’t even know what they were.
For those of you as clueless as me The clone Wars is a series of battles born our of the Star Wars movies and Star Wars 4 in particular.
Back to the party, I was shocked to see that the toys handed out to everyone in the party in costume ( www.clonewarstoystore.com ) recieved some of the same action figuures ( www.clonewarsactionfigure.com ) that existed when i was a kid. Light Sabers was all over the place!
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Published September 23rd, 2008
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I registered the following domains today. Using a limited access piece of software I was able to create self-updating websites in a short period of time - minutes.
WWW.NAVIGATIONSYSTEMONLINE.COM
WWW.FINDAGPSNOW.COM
WWW.PORTABLEGPSMAP.COM
WWW.TOMTOMGPSSITE.COM
WWW.SLOTCARSNOW.COM
WWW.SLOTCARSBLOG.COM
WWW.BECOMEADOMAINRESELLERTODAY.COM
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Google MFG/PRO Custom Search EngineteleFLIP
Published July 11th, 2007
In just a few steps your cell phone can except emails - thats the tagline on the teleflip site. After creating an account by giving them your cell phone number and then confirming the reciept of a text message. You have the abilitiy to allow stay connected to the people you want to by having their emails forwarded to your cell phone and recieved by you as a text message. Check it out at http://www.teleflip.com
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Published April 11th, 2007
in MFG/PRO and Marketing.
Today we launched the invitation for our BatchTrak for MFG/PRO Webinar We used our PICS Marketing site to send an email invite to our contact base. Using PICS Marketing’s branded i-Builder service coupled with Salesforce.com allows for a simple trackable mailing that complies with the CAN-SPAM laws.
Register for this webinar (or view any of our pre-recorded webinars) at www.pics.com/webinar
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“How long does your MFG/PRO Month End Close Take?”DocLib for MFG/PRO WebinarWebinar Invite Results with Vertical Response
Published February 15th, 2007
in Uncategorized and Technology.
All of a sudden one of our mailservers started getting mail rejected from some pretty big hosts the the Vetrans Administration Dell and Verizon Wireless. Turned out that this server trigged a Suspicious rating from Senderbase. Seems Senderbase owned by a company called IronPort calculates a rating for each mail server based on some criteria such as blacklisting, volume, RDNS and some others. Some of the mail servers we were trying to contact were good enough to tell us why they were refusing our connections.
THE PROBLEM - Senderbase.org has no support and no details on our “Reputation Rating” we needed to dig up trustedsource.com to find out our rating. An email to them got our rating changed from Suspicious to Netrual in 4 hours (Thanks TrustedSource!) but then Ironport customers are still rejecting our mail.
SENDERBASE: You need a mechanism to allow honest ISP’s that have had a problem and corrected it a way to get back online. We are running businesses.
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Published January 22nd, 2007
in Technology.
Linux has RPMs, HP has Depots, FreeBSD has Packages what ever you call them, installation bundles are a great help when you need to install open source or third party software onto a machine. I needed to install Apache, Tomcat and Java on to an HP-UX 11.11 machine remotely. Rather than having to deal with a ll the complexities of software interaction, program compilation (which can be a real pain on HP-UX) and installation, all I needed to do was access the Software porting center for HP and grab one bundle. Nice and Easy!
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Published January 14th, 2007
in Technology, MFG/PRO and Marketing.
As I mentioned in an earlier post we are making a concentrated effort to market our products in 2007. This includes monthly sales webinars to introduce our products to the MFG/PRO and QAD marketplace.
Our DocLib product is one of our main products and for that reason we are showcasing it a couple of times during the year. The upcoming webinar is on January 16th at 2pm and we advertised it with a four prong approach:
- Email blast to our customers, prospects and business partners using PICS Marketing Email
- Postcard Mailing to our customers and prospects using PICS Marketing Postcards
- Registration Links on our Websites index pages and News Pages
- Personalized Phone Calls to prospects that have expressed interest in DocLib in the past.
Our Email campaigns seem to really be working. Using PICS Marketing we can see the following results:
This resulted in 25 clicks on our registration page for the Webinar and we are very excited about this turnout.
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Batchtrak for MFG/PRO Webinar“How long does your MFG/PRO Month End Close Take?”Webinar Invite Results with Vertical Response
Published January 9th, 2007
in Technology.
If you have an american express card and are willing to have your teleconference fees billed to your card try conference plus. We have been using them for quite some time and have found the service outstanding and the price hard to beat. Check them out at www.conferenceplus.com . Each moderator will be assigned a moderator code and then can schedule conference calls at anytime.
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