By John Shoff on
September 30, 2009 5:39 PM
Dealing with the winmail.dat file: the problem and the solutions
The Problem
Email users sometimes find that they receive email messages with a strange file attached, called winmail.dat. When they attempt to open this file, either it can't be opened at all, or it contains "garbage" data.
The situation causing this is that people are using several different email client programs to receive, read, and send email. The most commonly used email client programs at GPC seem to be Microsoft Outlook and Netscape (specifically the Messenger component), with a small minority of techno-geeks using Eudora. Unfortunately, Outlook does not "play nice" with the other email programs all the time. This causes problems, not for the sender of the email, but the recipient, particularly when actual files are attached to messages.
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By John Shoff on
September 21, 2009 11:25 PM
Augmented Category 6 (Cat 6A) is the new cabling kid on the block! Many once thought copper cabling would never support speeds above 1 Gig, but Cat 6A has proven that wrong and allowed copper cabling to live on. There is even talk that copper cabling may still be around when we reach 40 Gig!
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By John Shoff on
September 21, 2009 11:21 PM
Use the following diagram to properly create a ethernet cable using CAT 5 or CAT 6, with RJ-45 ends.
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By John Shoff on
September 21, 2009 11:15 PM
Use these tips to help your PC run smoothly...
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By John Shoff on
September 21, 2009 11:14 PM
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By John Shoff on
September 8, 2009 8:25 PM
You can really improve your network management by implementing SNMP monitoring on your devices.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used in network management systems to monitor network-attached devices for conditions that warrant administrative attention. SNMP is a component of the Internet Protocol Suite as defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It consists of a set of standards for network management, including an application layer protocol, a database schema, and a set of data objects.[1]
SNMP exposes management data in the form of variables on the managed systems, which describe the system configuration. These variables can then be queried (and sometimes set) by managing applications.
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By John Shoff on
August 20, 2009 8:58 PM
For all the shortcomings that everyone else had with Vista, I didn't mind it. Well, I mean, I could put up with some of the annoying features in order to gain the benefits of the instant search, and various other new tools.
Windows 7 however, is probably the best, most polished software that Microsoft has put out, well... ever!
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By John Shoff on
March 13, 2009 10:25 PM
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By John Shoff on
February 28, 2008 11:48 PM
Started work on online store items, additional services and product pages.
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