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The way we have our backup set up is really quite primitive compared to a lot of larger businesses, but it works quite well. We have two external hard drives, always swapping one in the shop and one off site. The backup performs each night, using a simple $25 application called Backup Magic...

The input on the hardware keys is very helpful, thank you! I think that should help smooth over the transition some. We have several people in both offices that are very very picky about their computers and panic anytime someone else even touches them, much less goes to make a change in their...

I've used Active KillDisk as was mentioned above with numerous hard drives. It is fairly simple to use, effective, and free. In addition, it will recognize just about any storage medium whether it is connected by IDE, SATA, or even USB. Many other hard drive wiping programs will not recognize...

For $1,500 you can do a lot with a computer these days. Dell business desktops can be nice, but in my opinion overpriced. Any custom-built computer business (Like Signburst here on the forums) can do better performance and offer better customer service, with customizing for your specific...

The problem with most email accounts set up with Outlook is that they are POP3 mail accounts. This means that when you receive an email it is downloading it directly to your computer and then it is removed from your email provider's mail server. Those emails are stored in a single file in a...

Thank you for that quick reply! Both suggested companies look like good options, but I wanted to try and clarify something since I wasn't completely sure. If we were to go with the actual upgrade cost, we would be able to use the same hardware keys that we currently have for v8 on each...

Hello again everyone, I have been asked to get some estimates and find out which companies around sell/support FlexiSign software. In the past the business we originally purchased Flexi 7 and Flexi 8 gave us a real run around with prices and I believe just flat-out lied to us. Several years...

Generally, when you are running Firefox (or any web browser for that matter) and have the previous browsing history recently erased, then those old links you searched to before will no longer be listed. What I imagine is happening is somehow, even if you aren't manually doing it, the recent...

The only warranty that they accepted was one that still had over a year left (of a three year) and was the power connector not registering correctly. I had to reformat and restore to dell factory default image before they would honor that it was hardware, though, and accept the warranty. The...

Compared to Vista, I think there will be far less "get the bugs out" issues with Win 7 as for over half a year now Microsoft has had hundreds of thousands of beta testers and unbelievably large amount of input from such a wide range of people that much of the bug fixing has already been done. I...

While this is definitely not an issue with all model of Dell laptops, I wanted to throw it out there as a kind of caution to those who may be looking at some of their cheaper lines for purchase: In the past month I have worked on four Dell laptops, all of about the same model (Inspiron 15xx)...

I have also tested FlexiSign Pro 8.1 in Windows 7 (64-bit) and the designer had no problems working in the program for a full week so I imagine there won't me any major issues there. I have tested and used Quickbooks 2007 and 2008 on Windows 7 (64-bit again) and both worked without any issue...

In general, when you install an OS onto a hard drive, it is basing many aspects of that OS installation on the drivers for the chipset and other things of that actual physical computer. Say you were to install Windows onto my desktop computer, which is an AMD 780FX chipset based system. Then...

The operating system is something that's also a bit more complicated. Very few places are still selling XP machines, but if it is what you are using everywhere else than it may be better to make sure all your software (and hardware peripherals like printers) are compatible still. If you...

I've been using FileZilla personally and really like it. They are always keeping up with updates, and one of the reasons the administrators at KU liked it so much was that it supported secure protocol transfers as well, not just standard FTP.

I've worked with a couple businesses and people that have had Live OneCare, and it has caused a few problems especially with software. The way that Microsoft designed OneCare seems like they made it overwrite the built-in Windows functionality in some cases and add to with another identical set...

Really? This is quite interesting to me to hear, as at KU we were taught almost completely on Linux because of their open source availability of code and functionality for programming. The best programming classes I learned from were tied in with the bash script power to run all your code...

I've heard here and there that several gaming software companies ran into trouble instituting very strict DRM and registration restrictions for their games and because of it lost a lot of possible market. There was one game in particular (though now the name of it has lost me) that only allowed...

As others have already quickly popped up to mention, there's been an outstanding amount of support and praise for Windows 7, and not just from Microsoft freaks either. One of the computer science professors I know has always been incredibly devoted to Mac OSX, but after having a chance to run...

At our office we had similar issues it sounds like with an older computer they were using to print to a Mimaki JV3, and the problem ended up being that the print jobs were too big for the computer to handle and would time out, freezing up the computer and everything. If you are looking a system...