If I asked you to tell me the main difference in style between the Martial Arts of Kung-Fu and Karate what would your answer be? Anyone know? (Share your answers below in the comment section.) The simplest answer is this; Karate is a “hard” style, Kung Fu is “soft.” If you would like to know [...]
Welcome to the CSI Onsite weblog where our aim is to provide practical tips to increase your efficiency, productivity and enjoyment while using computers at work or in your own home. This could include ergonomics, hardware, software, IT trends, and productivity tips. Our last blog, New Year’s Solutions, took a quick look at the word [...]
As we strive to broaden your knowledge base of PC technology and its best uses we will occasionally give you tid-bits on the hard ware we all use every day; such as the post on Hard Drive Innards. Our goal is not to turn you into IT gurus; rather it is to keep you from [...]
Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of each month. This is when Microsoft releases their newest fixes for Windows and other related software apps. Starting with Windows 98, Microsoft included a “Windows Update” system to check for patches to the Windows OS and its components. With the release of Microsoft Update, this system also checks for [...]
Before we get into this post I wanted to say thanks to all of you who are sharing your comments about our blog posts. We really do want to be a practical, relevant, and useful resource for those seeking to improve their quality of life through increase efficiency and productivity. There are some who have [...]
No we are not talking about the icky kind of innards! However, much like you and me, a Hard Drive Device (HDD) has internal components that make it work. In our last blog, we introduced Hard Drive Types. Since one of our objectives at CSI Onsite is to improve your understanding of technology, we [...]
Have you ever wondered what goes on inside that little box we call a computer? After all most of us have come to depend on our computers for much of what we do. Computers are integrated in areas of life from auto mechanics to zoology. When it comes down to it, do you really know [...]
We continue our blog series looking at an area of major importance for the majority of businesses, Disaster Recovery-Fault Tolerance. You can read our post Disaster Recovery and Fault Tolerance and find basic some definitions. We followed up with a blog focused on Fault Tolerance which is where we define it [...]
Welcome to our Blog! Our aim with these blog posts; is to improve your understanding of technology (in the IT industry) and increase your efficiency in its use. Our last blog introduced the concept of Disaster Recovery and Fault Tolerance (DR/FT), one of the most important parts of what we do as your one stop [...]
Greetings from my office at the National headquarters for CSI Onsite. Doesn’t that sound like I am on the top floor of a sky scrapper, in a corner office with windows opening to a panoramic view of a bustling cityscape? Well that’s not the case; I am in a very pleasant cube, with a [...]
