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There are several WordPress plugins that will break your website if they are disabled. Once disabled, you are likely in a catch-22 situation in that you cannot activate them because the site is broken and the site is broken because you cannot activate them. In our case, we took down Read more…
UPDATED OCT 1 2019 If you want to import a car or truck from the United States to Canada prepare yourself for lots of paperwork. It is not a difficult process but it does have a large number of steps that need to be completed in order. We try to Read more…
If you have a Dell Optiplex 7460 or its retail brother, the Dell Inspiron 5477 and the screen: flickers is far too bright is blurry has a dark edge around the outside edge swirling colors unable to wake the system up from display off mode using touch there is a Read more…
We are constantly telling our customers that traditional anti-virus programs that rely mostly on ‘signatures’ from previous attacks will no longer keep a company safe. Attackers are now sophisticated, well funded and often government controlled. This means they rely less on exploiting known security holes and more on developing those Read more…
If you are interested in 3D printing you likely looked into it a few years ago and decided that it was both too expensive and too difficult. Back then you needed to understand Computer Aided Design (CAD) and 3D printers cost thousands of dollars. This has changed. We just purchased Read more…
If your WordPress site displays an error like: Warning: require(/home/content/22/7568022/html/partisanissues/wp-includes/load.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/content/22/7568022/html/partisanissues/wp-settings.php on line 19 Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required ‘/home/content/22/7568022/html/partisanissues/wp-includes/load.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5_6/lib/php’) in /home/content/22/7568022/html/partisanissues/wp-settings.php on line 19 the problem is likely that your WordPress installation is corrupt. I have only seen this occur with failed automatic Read more…
*** UPDATED Dec 19 2020 with Updated Tool *** Our copies of the MCPR have expired and we can’t get new ones. The MCRP is the CONSUMER version of the uninstaller and will not help with Enterprise McAfee products. Sooo, there are three solutions to removing old McAfee corporate products: Read more…
For the last few days we have been banging around the idea of large 14TB disks and we wanted to source the fastest, most reliable, least expensive disks possible. We know the Seagate BaraCuda is targeted to desktops / workstations and the Seagate IronWolf is targeted at disk arrays, wanted Read more…
The Jabra Speak 710 Bluetooth wireless AND cabled USB external speaker is a very solid product. It is a nice improvement on the Jabra Speak 410 and 510 sound pucks but when compared to the Plantronics Calisto 7200, Calisto 600 and the Polycom VoxBox it really shines. In this video Read more…
If you are looking for a room booking screen to sit in front of a Boardroom / Huddle Room / Focus Room … and you want to avoid middleware servers or monthly subscription expenses and complexity, you can use the Crestron TSS-7. The TSS7 is easy to configure to display Read more…
Below is a comparison of HPE Aruba and Juniper mid-range Gigabit switches we had to build for one of our customers. All of these switches can be happily used in medium sized offices or branch offices and offer a full range of features. If you are interested in Aruba, you Read more…
Two years ago it was normal for Cloud storage of Veeam backups (backup copy jobs, mostly), to cost between $100 and $125 per Terra-byte. I had negotiated a rate of near $80/TB with my cloud provider on about 15TB of space. However, the new Veeam 9.5 Update 4 enhances its Read more…
If you are interested in a room reservation system for your office there are more products to sort through than most people would suspect. We recently need to replace some Crestron hardware and servers for one of our clients and so we investigated quite a few products to make sure Read more…
If you need a full walk through on how to upgrade your MySQL on Windows, this is the video for you. The nut of the solution is, you can’t upgrade, you backup, uninstall your old MySQL, install the new MySQL, then restore from backup.
If you see FAILED TO CONNECT TO MYSQL – BAD HANDSHAKE in MySQL Workbench, your database is likely unsupported. MySQL Workbench only supports MySQL databases version 5.1 and newer. Fortunately there is an easy way around this. Use the old MYSQL ADMINISTRATOR tool as shown below. In my case I Read more…
MySQL Administrator has been replaced with MySQL Workbench but many people still the Administrator and if you are one of them and find that the BACKUP or RESTORE options are greyed out, you need to either : Click the NEW PROJECT button at the bottom middle of the Window and Read more…