During a visit to a customer’s site the owner and I discussed how the Computer Usage Policy I wrote for him came in handy. The conversation drifted into how we could prevent non-productive web surfing in the first place. I subscribe to a Sunbelt Software e-mail list serve that has many very knowledgeable administrators. Remembering [...]

Sunbelt Software hosts a number of technical mailing lists. Recently, one of them I’m subscribed to had a thread that began as a question asking what software utilities do fellow system administrators keep close at hand. Needless to say this created a thread with many great answers, lots of +1′s to make it a pseudo [...]

First things first – my first computer was a Xerox with a CPM operating system.  There, now that I’ve established that I’m no spring chicken I can reminisce about the days of the 16-bit Windows Recorder applet.  This keyboard macro recorder would allow a few keystrokes to invoke useful or repetitive text. Fast forward to [...]