August 30, 2020 – nationwide global internet outage
We don’t have a lot of details yet, but CenturyLink is suffering a nationwide internet outage at the moment. Not all sites are down, some are fine, some are intermittently reachable, some not at all. Our local connections in Albuquerque are fine, but...
Patch Tuesday Kills Outlook
On July 14th, 2020 Microsoft pushed their monthly bundle of operating system and application patches. Unfortunately, this one disabled Microsoft Outlook. Many users woke up today to find their Outlook won’t start. We have the fix!
Working from Home in the Age of Coronavirus
Fears of COVID-19 are already changing the way we work, act, and play. The need to keep safe social distances means that many people will be working from home at least for the near future. Fortunately, the internet makes it all possible. In order to help, Southwest...
How a $30 LED is Saving Us a Ton of Time
Sometimes a real-world object is the answer to a virtual-world problem. We manage data backups for one of our clients. If you have ever done that job for even a small network, you know it can be a challenge. The ideal situation is for it to quietly copy all the...