by Dennis Clayton | Dec 31, 2012 | Bad Things, General, Good Things, Updates
This will be my first (and last) post of 2012. It has been a busy year, so I’ve neglected posting. 2012 was a good and bad year for me. These are both personal and business. The good. I have been kept busy with various ventures and expect some of them come to...
by Dennis Clayton | Jun 29, 2011 | Cloud Computing, General, Linux, Microsoft, Review, Software, Technical, Technology, Ubuntu, Virtualization, Web
When I started hosting websites for clients, I hosted them in-house, literally, in my house. This was nice because I had direct control over the servers and could quickly fix them or migrate data if there were hardware failures. But obviously, it does not scale very...
by Dennis Clayton | May 4, 2011 | Apple, Cloud Computing, Email, General, Good Things, iPad, iPhone, Software, Technical, Technology, Web
Dear Steve Jobs, I feel that with the “death” of the XServe Server and the uncertain future of Mac OS X Server OS, Apple should delve into offering hosted services to pull in entities who are now scattered among numerous other services such as Google Apps...
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 22, 2011 | General, QR Codes, Technology
Look around you when you read magazines, order pizza from Papa Johns and surf the web. Chances are, you’ll spot a QR Code. QR Code use has taken off with the advent of smartphones, especially those running Android. Most Android phones come with a barcode reader...
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 22, 2011 | General, Technology, Virtualization
Over the past few years, I’ve become a big fan of Virtualization technologies like VMWare, VirtualBox, Xen, Microsoft Hyper-V, etc. So much so that I moved the majority of our clients to virtual server solutions. On the desktop, I tend to use VirtualBox from Sun. It...
by Dennis Clayton | Mar 21, 2011 | Email, General, Technology
Lots of small businesses who are just getting established tend to go out to places like 1&1 and other “a la carte” style ISPs to get a domain name, email boxes, calendar, file storage, etc. Most of these services don’t have much, if any,...
