Alden Tech and Design

Monitoring and Error Reporting

Last month I started using a new remote monitoring system for computers. A monitoring system will send information from a computer to a central database reporting on the health of that computer. The monitoring system can be installed for one pc or for a whole network.

A convenient feature of this monitoring system is the email reporting function. If you have a problem with your computer your email to help@ my domain will automatically show up on my screen alerting me to the problem immediately.

PC Maintenance

This last month has been very busy for Alden Tech & Design. There have been quite a few questions from customers on how to maintain computers and how to prevent malware from taking over their pcs. Therefore, this newsletter will focus mainly on that topic, and what is better than to get a list of what a computer professional is doing for his own computer?

Of course I am sticking my head out with this list as most computer professionals have their own list. But my list is working for me and that counts!! :-)

You will find my suggestions in the ATD blog on this address: http://www.aldentd.com/content/maintaining-your-windows-computer.

Avoiding Malware

Another question that has come up from a couple of my customers is how to avoid malware. There are some guidelines, but there are no final solutions unless you find yourself at the point of no return and throw your computer out of the house for good. Some suggestions that I have are listed here http://www.aldentd.com/content/avoiding-malware.

Our new office

We have now been in our new office for more than two months and I have to say that I like it. It is spacious,still offers a central downtown location and there are normally more parking places available than on School Street. We have received a lot of compliments about our office from our customers and it is appropriate to thank my partner and wife, Wynd, for most of that.

Storage needs?

I found this article on the internet about a DIY server for storing 67TB (67,000 GB ) of data. I personally will never need this much storage unless I start editing films professionally, but the price is very low for this much storage. http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/

First Fridays Ukiah Artwalk June 4th

Alden Tech & Design is launching its Artwalk Computer/Web Education Series with free presentations beginning with the First Friday of June.  "Web Presence for Artists ; Website/pages, Facebook, Twitter, Etsy Explorations."

We will also feature one of a kind Art-cessories by Mahvay (www.mahvay.com, www.aldentd.com).

Come by and enjoy the show! 216 W. Perkins St. # 105 (entrance on Oak). 707-462-3446

Send in your questions

 Please send your questions to us in an email or go into our forum and post a question there.

HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON!