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While it's not the most ideal technically, we have our Quickbooks company file located directly in a shared folder directly on the file server. This means you don't have to have Quickbooks actually installed on the host server, just the company files located in a shared directory and a mapped...

The use of RAID really depends all on the situation and specific goals you have in mind. As Casey stated, there are many different levels of RAID, each with their intended purpose, benefit, and disadvantage. What you are specifically stating is using RAID for protecting data storage on a file...

A file server will not replace the need for a document scanner/organizer, but instead will be the place that you save all those scanned documents to. The point in getting a file server or NAS device is to centralize your storage. The way I usually explain this out to customers is to imagine...

For a network switch I would really recommend the HP ProCurve 1810G-24 switch. This is a smart managed gigabit switch with 24 ports which means for most small offices it is adequate as well as offers room for expansion. This is a very high quality switch, I've used several of them now, and it...

It seems the biggest part that Neatdesk is advertising and pushing is the software behind the scanner, to help organize documents with a "powerful OCR" engine. However, from what I have seen the Fujitsu scanners are much better quality, they just tend to last longer and run better. Fujitsu...

For the highest reliability, especially in a business environment where you are opening and saving a lot of larger files, I would stay away from wireless. A lot of people like wireless because it is easy, but you will notice connectivity issues now and then and it would be terrible to have that...

IMAP is the way to go if you can find email providers for it, it synchronizes everything much smoother than trying to hobble everything together with POP3. Gmail can be set up with IMAP I believe.

Both Dell and HP are notorious for having a ton of unnecessary and even severely performance-reducing software preinstalled on their computers. This is much better on their business line. Yes, there's still a lot of extras, but no all the advertising BS and games that end up overtaking the...

Dell does over customization... to some point. Only certain areas of certain models have full customization, but the Quick Ship models offer no customization, they are just a base package. Speaking with a Dell account rep can be handy if you don't know what you are looking for. However, the...

The computer that you linked to from Amazon is a gaming computer. There are big differences really in a gaming computer and a design computer. There have been several discussions in the past on this and how the computer needs for design work require a different "focus" of hardware on certain...

I haven't heard of any news of Apple looking to release a more "ultrabook" style MacBook Pro, but I do imagine they will be releasing a new generation soon to accommodate the new Intel Ivy Bridge processors which will be a slight increase from the current Sandy Bridge generation in use. I have...

We have been lucky so far and not had any monitors come in with dead pixels. We order almost exclusively all high-end Dell, LG, and Samsung monitors though. I have had this happen, though, with another company. Most all of the computers we build use ASUS motherboards and thankfully we have...

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As with many things in the world of technology, Dell has some good ones and some bad ones. I own a computer repair shop and 90% of the computers that we have to work on and repair are Dells. However, those are mostly all consumer line computers (definitely mostly laptops) and there is a...

This is great news to hear today. I just got a call from a couple of our designers saying they have had issues for a while now trying to export files in Flexi 10 to PDF format. The program basically seizes up, and I know it's not that the computer doesn't have enough resources to complete the...

If what you are needing to use is a standard DB9 Serial Null Modem cable, then you can go with lengths up to or greater than 25 feet. We currently have a CNC router connected to a computer using a serial null modem cable that is 25 ft. and have absolutely no issues. We also have run a Graphtec...

All in all it comes down to the virtual machine software that you use I imagine then. A while back we had tried using a couple different programs (Windows Virtual PC and VirtualBox) to create a virtual machine of Windows 7 and Flexi 10 to use for testing purposes. We never could get the USB...

While this may work in theory, it's completely counter-intuitive and I can almost guarantee it won't work quite right. By running Windows 7 on Parallels on your Mac you may be able to install the Windows version of Flexi (again depending upon the version of Flexi you have) and get the program...

Hmmm, I understand what you are saying here, but I don't know if it applies in this case, as the error is happening when Flexi isn't outputting to any form of device. There is no plotter/printer connected to this computer at all, it's only used for layout and design and saving the files to...

Hey all, We have a design workstation running Flexi Designer 10.0.4 on a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit system that for the last several days has been having a random crash screen on several different projects. The error message screen shot is included below, and when it comes up will...