WARNING: You could be making these Summertime Slip-Ups with your company’s server! (AND DATA!)
Excess heat is a huge problem for all of the equipment in your server room; it is even bad for laptops and Desktops. If proper attention isn’t given to your server and network equipment during the summer, all the heat outside can cause serious damage to your server, frying your system- literally!
Here are few steps you can take to insure that your server equipment and network don’t overheat this summer:
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It’s Friday afternoon and many of us are working past the 5:00 bell here at Dynamic Edge. The cleaning people are here vacuuming (they are trying to get done early to go enjoy their weekends), while we are trying to tie everything up so our customers can continue to work through their weekends. Hmm, maybe we all chose in the wrong professions, I think to myself as the vacuum buzzes by.
Here are a couple of highlights from the week:
1. We just finished the second phase to some updates to the Jiffy website: www.jiffymix.com – corn muffin mix anyone? Keep an eye out for a new Jiffy forum.
2. A new version of Datacus was just released: www.datacus.net – for all you people who are tired of entering the same data over and over. (I guess that would be every small business on the planet)
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One of my customers just told us on a recent follow up call that our Fixed IT program is really expensive. Nervous that I was about to be told: “So therefore we are going to cancel our subscription.” I took a deep breath and asked why he thought this. The customer responded, “Look, I am not complaining! When jumping out of a plane, I don’t buy the cheapest parachute I can find, I buy the best one money can buy. You folks are like a good parachute; I wouldn’t want to run my business without you.” It sounds like he is going to be renewing his contract next year. Woohoo!
So you can type 110 words per minute. Awesome. Can’t we all? But every time you touch that furry little mouse (yeah, I got a leopard print mouse cover for mine, you should think about it.) you reduce your production. Here are some tips that work / help out when navigating around your documents. Memorize them and you will be a word rock star: (or any program for that matter!)
Ctrl + Z key is the undo key – you can use it to undo all of the following tips:
Delete key – deletes to the right of the curser
Backspace key – deletes behind or to the left of the curser
Ctrl + right arrow – takes you back an entire word
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Sorry to keep harping on the backup thing: if you haven’t tested your backups in the last 6 months, you can just assume they aren’t working. We just did a network audit for a company and found out that they didn’t have a backup of any of their data since March 14 (over three months). The business owner said that the loss of this data would cost him over $100K to reproduce. Talk about crippling!
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Did you know you can work tons faster if you never reach over and grab that little usually-ever-so-helpful-mouse? Let’s face it – every time you hold that silver-egg-shaped-piece of plastic in your hand, you are wasting a few seconds. These seconds become minutes and before you know it, you are stuck at work at 7:45 PM wishing you could make it home in time for Law and Order (Matlock, whatever).
Over the next few weeks we are going to share with you some quick and easy productivity enhancers. There are two today, so pay attention!
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