Posted on 31-12-2009
Filed Under (Computers and Hardware) by TheJudge

I know that I need to have new servers put in my building but it is just not that easy. I currently have some that were used servers to begin with and have lasted just fine for ten years. Now, my staff wants me to pay for new servers that have a warranty included with them. I have no idea how long I can put them off but I am going to hold out for as long as possible.

My secretary has suggested that we just buy some used servers again and go another ten years and I am all for that but the guy that I got the used poweredge servers from last time is no longer in business. I would have to find a completely different supplier and that is probably not going to be that easy.

My secretary laughed at me when I told her the whole computer supplier story and then punched up something on her computer and told me to look at it. It was a website that sold used poweredge servers with a warranty and that had prices about seventy percent below the retail price of any new servers out there today. I was able to convince my staff to go with this or have nothing and they all agree that this would do for now.

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Posted on 30-12-2009
Filed Under (Computers and Hardware) by TheJudge

I may just have to stop using the servers that I have now and find some used hp servers to take their place. I paid a lot of money for these servers about ten years ago and they have worked fine up until about three months ago and now they cannot go a week without breaking down. I would hate to add up the repair bills, it is a good think that they go straight to the accounting department and they pay them.

I did start looking online when they first started acting up and I found that there is a good company that sells used proliant servers at good prices and they guarantee them. So, even though they are refurbished but used hp servers, they are guaranteed to work. I am not sure how long the guarantee is so I may have to go back and read the fine print to make my final decision.

I have the used proliant servers placed in the checkout basket of the site and am having a hard time completing the process of buying them. I think that maybe I will have the accounting girls place the order since they are used to approving big chunks of money being spent in my office every day.

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Posted on 28-12-2009
Filed Under (Home & Garden) by TheJudge

I have been a replacement window contractor for over 18 years.  I can’t believe it but it is true. I started out learning about windows in the 1980’s the first company I worked for was a vinyl window company located in the western suburbs of Illinois Replacement windows is in high demand at that time and there were not too many window companies.

We sold replacement windows Mount Prospect area where there were lots of window problems. The type of replacement windows sold were a beefy vinyl window that was all welded at the corners. This was the state of the art at that time but now most vinyl windows are all welded instead of screwed together.

I have seen the replacement window industry evolve for the consumers benefit. The homeowner has more choices than ever and as a result has the best opportunity to get the best value. They can choose from wood windows, vinyl windows and composite windows which is the newest product on the market. In Buffalo Grove replacement windows popularity is mostly vinyl windows which give the most bang for the buck. So take it from an old timer who has been around choosing your investment wisely and shop around for both quality and price.

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Posted on 28-12-2009
Filed Under (Webmaster) by TheJudge

After seeing what my brother had put together for his website idea, I started to search for an Arizona website design company that could maybe show him a few pointers. His design was horrible, not by a lack of effort for sure, but just a lack of experience and understanding.

He was a little offended to say the least but after showing him some of this Phoenix website design company’s work I think he was a little more understanding. Not completely sold on the idea, I set up a meeting with one of the experts at the website design company.

He was a little reluctant to go but we are both glad he did. They told him all about his website not ranking very good in the local search engine results because he did not have enough content on his web pages. Mostly, the website that he had made was just images.

It is a good idea to show customers your work but that is not the only thing you can show them. You have to have good information, a call to action, and hot buttons to get them to stick around. Plus the content will help the website rank in the search results.

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Posted on 23-12-2009
Filed Under (Advertising) by TheJudge

I posted a question to my social networking friends about whom I should use for my new website, helping me make it be more successful than all the others that are out there promoting the same things. I got back many different responses and found that at least half of them recommended Danny DeMichele to use and I laughed, because I had thought about using him, but then thought that I should check out some other options in case there was somebody that I had not heard of that was new.

I decided that I would move forward with contacting Danny DeMichele for help and see what kind of plan he would put together first and then hire him if the plan looked as though it could work. Only the best of the best is who I want working for me and my new site, so I hired the person that laid out the best plan and came highly recommended.

I sent all of my social networking friends a thank you for their help in my search for an internet marketing genius. I did not want to add that I had already considered Danny DeMichele but that their suggestions helped put him over the top of the leader board.

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I am glad that most of the celebrities have people who help them with their reputations. The ReputationManagers.com is one company that handles that type of thing. I have a feeling that if it were not for companies like ReputationManagers.com, we would probably be hearing about many more negative things that have to deal with the people who intrigue us so much. I would just rather hear none of it since their personal lives should really be any of our business, unless they did something criminal and then it should be public knowledge.

ReputationManagers.com must really have their work cut out for them, with some of the clients that I have heard that they have. Some of the child starts seem to get into some of the stupidest jams. I guess that they just have more time in the spotlight, and therefore we have many more years to watch their lives. I would never want the world to know some of the stupid things that I did when I was a teenager.

The people at ReputationManagers.com would never have been able to keep up with me when I was younger if I were a star. I think that it must be hard for the child stars always being under a spotlight and not being able to do things and learn from them and then grow, because everyone will be watching.

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Posted on 21-12-2009
Filed Under (Computers and Hardware) by TheJudge

The very few poweredge servers that were in stock at the electronics store are not a match to the one that I need for my client. I had been hired by a big accounting firm to purchase some necessary computer items for them. I had already lined up a dell repair company that will be on call for any repairs that may be needed, anytime of the day or night.

I was given a name of a company that sells online dell supplies and am going to head back to my office to check it out. I am hoping that they have the right poweredge servers that I need and I can get them delivered before the deadline I have on Friday. I think that maybe the lead from the dell repair is my best yet.

I ordered the correct poweredge servers and they are supposed to be here on Thursday which gives me one day after that, to have everything else on this list ready to go for the computer guys to install. I am very confident that I will meet the deadline and this accounting firm will be very impressed with my work and give me a good letter of recommendation to show to other firms in the area who need someone to help them out too.

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Posted on 16-12-2009
Filed Under (Internet & Web Services) by TheJudge

The company that I ordered the system x servers from called to make sure that I had received them on time. I told them that they had actually been delivered about two days earlier than what I had expected. This was a good thing; since that was the only thing that we were waiting on to open up our new office. The computer guys came in two days early and took care of installing everything with the xseries servers that needed to be done.

The entire staff was excited to move over to our new building, and they loved it when I told them that we would be able to move a couple of days earlier than we had previously planned. The system x servers company was glad to hear that everything had worked out and the salesman gave me his personal extension number if I ever needed anything else from them.

A week later, I did call to order two xseries servers to have on hand as backups, just in case we would ever need them. A buddy of mine who works across town told me that when one of their servers went down, they did not think anything of it but then when both went down, they had to stop all business until replacements could be ordered, delivered and installed. I did not want that happening to my office, I wanted to be prepared.

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