How to enable windows installer while in safe mode
Recently I came across a computer that was getting a bluescreen every time it booted up unless it was booted into safe mode. I traced the problem to a particular program but when I tried to uninstall it in safe mode, I was unabe to because the windows installer service is unavailable in safe mode […]
Critiquing Other People’s Tableau Cisualisations
Tableau’s sample files wouldn’t look so good if they weren’t well designed Alistair Knock posted a great question by Moose Peterson on Google+ about feedback on user photographs on the web:why do most people just make anodyne comments along the lines of “Nice!” when they probably have some constructive criticism they are holding back? This […]
Is your football team giving you value for money?
BBC Sport have just published their Price of Football survey where they looked at the cost of tickets, programmes and old-school refreshments. The following visualisation compares the BBC headline cost ‘Cheapest Day Out’ (the total cost of the cheapest ticket, a programme, a pie and a cup of tea) to both goals scored and points […]
IPhone Versus Washing Machine
In my years as a computer guy, I’ve seen some pretty unusual things done with and to computers. I’ve been around long enough to see CD-Roms used as cup holders, 3.5″ floppies jammed in backwards, entire soda’s dumped into keyboards, and once, a space heater that melted a plastic computer case so bad that the […]
The Physical Layer
I’ve decided to deviate from my blog-posting standard in two different areas today. First, I’m going to actually post this, which goes against the norm for me. Second, I’m going to talk about some underlying network theory instead of a break/fix review. The OSI Model When network techs troubleshoot a networking issue, often times it’s […]
Autohide Function For Taskbar Does Not Work
Screen real-estate on my monitor is precious. It’s not unusal for me to have multiple screens open at once on the same montor. Every inch of available extra space is more productivity for me, For this reason, I use the auto-hide function in Windows to make the taskbar hide when I don’t need it. In […]
Where do Computer Viruses Come From?
It seems like over half the time I am called out on a client site to remove a virus from someone’s computer, I get asked the universal question, “Where do viruses come from?” or “Why do viruses even exist?” I’ll explain what I tell them. Viruses don’t occur in cyber space naturally like biological viruses […]
INTERWORKS BLACKBERRY GAME APPLICATION IS A HIT
“Fightin’ Words” Reached #1 Paid Game Status in BlackBerry App World OKC, OKLA. — Oklahoma’s premier I.T. Solutions company, InterWorks, Inc., successfully developed and released the “Fightin’ Words” app game to BlackBerry App World in May 2011. Downloaded in over 40 countries, the game is quickly being well received by users and is currently displayed […]
Adobe Acrobat asking to accept EULA after updating 10.1.0
I ran into a new issue today with Adobe Acrobat after installing the latest update onto Acrobat Reader 10.1.0. The user could open up some pdf files just fine, then when trying to open up other PDF files they ran into an issue where Adobe Acrobat was asking for them to close out and launch […]
Troubleshooting Excel issues after Microsoft Office File Validation for Office high priority update was installed
We have been dealing with poor performance with Excel 2003 after the High Priority update 2501584 was installed on client computers. This update adds the MS Office File Validation that originally shows up in Office 2010 into Office 2007 and Office 2003. For most users with Office 2007 they have not seen any issue in […]