Internet 101

This is a presentation I gave earlier this year to some of the staff at Off Madison Ave on how the Internet works. It covers the History and basics of the Internet.

Maximize Productivity Through Tech Spending

Many companies spend money on IT projects to fufill their need to have the latest and greatest toys and systems. However most do not evaluate how these projects impact their productivity. Often there is a direct relationship between Tech Spending and Productivity enhancements, however it is not the only thing that can enhance productivity.

The below presentation I have given on this very topic. It is somewhat incomplete, as it is meant to be narrated, but you will get the idea.

Maximize Productivity Using Information Technology Spending

Migrate Windows User Profiles to a new computer

One of the common problems that IT Staff run into is transferring Windows users’ desktop profiles from one computer to another while mainataining all of their customizations, files, settings, favorites, emails, and whatever else. One would think that Microsoft would give IT Pros the tools to transfer this kind of data since they made it so critical with the advent of Windows NT & 2000.

Fortunately there is a tool put out by ForensIT that makes this a relatively trivial task. You can download it here. After you download it, follow these directions to use it to transfer your profiles seamlessly.

1. Load the computer fully with the appropriate software, including MS Office if needed.
2. Login and create the account of the user that you wish to transfer.
3. Either remove and hook up the hard drive from the old computer to the new computer or connect to the computer’s default share (i.e. \\computername\C$)
4. After hooking up the drive or connecting to the default share open launch a Windows Explorer window and navigate to “C:\Documents and Settings” folder.
5. Copy the Folder for the user that you wish transfer to the new computer.
6. On the new computer paste the folder to that same respective folder.
7. After copying the folder to the new computer, open up the Windows Control Panel, double-click the System icon, and go to the Advanced tab. Click on the “Settings” button under the User Profiles section.
8. Check the “Show Unassigned Profiles” checkbox.
9. Choose the folder relating to the folder that you wish to assign, and click assign.
10. Type in the username of the user that you wish to transfer.
11. Log out and log back in as the migrated user

After following those steps you should have a fully migrated user profile. Keep in mind this dows not migrate programs, Windows is still incapable of doing this.

Enjoy!

Did Sirius XM Fire All of Their DJ’s?

Today, Sirius XM consumated their marriage by changing up their channel lineups, eliminating some stations, bringing stations from XM to Sirius, and vice versa. That much seems to have made the news, but what I am not hearing about, and have noticed while listening to my standard Sirius stations (Alt Nation, Lithium, Pulse, & Classic Vinyl) is there seem to be no DJs anymore. After listening for a couple hours today on these stations and others is there do not seem to be any DJs anymore.

If it is true that they laid off all of the DJs, this leaves me feeling a little torn. While I prefer that radio stations inturrupt the music as little as possible, but the DJ were sometimes a nice break, but I can see that they provided very little value for what they were making, which seems to justify their termination if they were laid off. Regardless, I guess it is better than having commercials.