Kirkham Systems also needs a website designer.  If you know what php, mysql, apache and linux is, you could be the right candidate.  If you build websites in Frontpage, well..., uh, I doubt you have the apptitude we are looking for.  If you know what CMS, LAMP, Drupal, and Zen Cart are, then we really want to speak with you.

Stop by with a resume (no phone calls, please) and ask for Ashley. 

If you have experience with PCs, Windows and Networking, AND like helping people, Kirkham Systems has an immediate opening for a computer technician.  Stop by 3000 Old Greenwood Road and bring your resume.  Ask for Ashley.  Please, no phone calls.

This is a very obscure problem, but if you have a printer or copier that does not support PCL out of the box, then when you try to print from software that only supports PCL, the document may disappear, or worse, crash the print spooler.

We discovered this when trying to print from a website using eLynx Printer Utility and a Muratec copier. We thought is was a driver incompatibility issue, but the usual trick of just switching the Muratec over to use an HP driver did not work. That is when we discovered that Muratec copiers (or at least the model we were working on) did not support PCL out of the box - it is an add-on option.

We are seeing a few AVG users detecting a Trojan Horse Generic6.UMU or UMS, and preliminary reports are that it is a false positive, and that the latest update from AVG supposedly does not detect it. We will keep you posted as we learn more about it.

It may surprise many that we do web design and Internet marketing work for not just the Fort Smith and River Valley area  -  we actually have quite a few clients scattered over the United States and Canada.  The reason we can attract these clients is our commitment to building sites the right way.  Our commitment to programming, design, and marketing are fundamental reasons why organizations all over North America choose our services.  Our clients understand that a site does not just need to look good, but it must be built upon a platform with capabilities and flexibility that provides good search engine results, and perhaps more importantly, customer engagement. 

Every single site we build is database-driven.  This means our clients can not only create and edit their own content, but they can actively engage and have conversations with their customers in ways simply not possible through traditional media. 

Call us today and let us show you the way to better Internet marketing.

At Kirkham Systems, we perform Search Engine Optimization (SEO) services for some of our customers. SEO is an art. To be sure, there are some very important nuts and bolts and technical things that must be done for a web site to effectively be found by the search engine algorithms, but ultimately, it is an art form. Once the nuts and bolts have been put in place, once the architecture has been built, it then becomes an excercise in participating.

Participating means contributing, engaging, and having dialogues with site visitors and providing useful information. If the information is valuable to enough people, your web site develops "Web Cred". If your site has Web Cred, it rules.

What are you doing to get Web Cred? Describing your products and services is not enough. After all, your competition does the same thing with their site. Are you engaging your visitors? Are you allowing comments to your posts or directly soliciting feedback that can be posted without being moderated? How about providing free, VALUABLE information or downloads without regard for direct financial gain? Think "loss-leader" and give it away. It WILL drive traffic to your site.

This post was originally on my personal site, but thought everyone here could use it too.

I FINALLY got Motorola Phone Tools to function with Vista. Download the latest drivers from Motorola here. You have to register, but its free. Download the file, unplug the phone, and run the installation (unzip the file, then right click on it, and select Install),

Next, restart Mobile Phone Tools. Vista will nag you about 10 times for each unsigned driver it is installing, but be patient - you will eventually get through the install routine. Finally, plug your phone in - it will be discovered and the correct drivers will be installed. Good luck!

Motorola PhoneTools Deluxe - Download

If you've upgraded from Windows XP Pro to Vista Business, AND you've changed the listening port of your Remote Desktop connection, AND after the latest round of Windows updates you find that it is not working, guess what? It seems that the last round of updates either enable a disabled Windows Firewall, and/or disabled or deleted additional ports in Windows Firewall. I'm not sure which, because I wasn't sure if my firewall was turned off before.

So, check your firewall settings to see if it has been turned back on, and check the exception list to be sure that the Remote Desktop port is enabled.

According to a recent study by Google, analyzed here in an ars technica article published today, 14% of hard drives fail in just 2 years, and then by year 5, 35% have failed. This is significantly less time than the manufacturers are telling us with their mean time to failure (MTTF) figures.

Backup is more important than ever before. We can show you how to protect your business with a modern backup system that is cost-effective, reliable, and easy.

Sorry for the cryptic title, but I wanted to make it easy to find for those that are looking for the way to change the pre-login wallpaper on their computer, especially servers.  I had a server that had an annoying Dell logo that took forever to paint every time I logged in remotely, so I wanted to ditch it.

Use registry editor (regedit) and go to key HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

Look for the string value Wallpaper under the Desktop key.

You can change the value to be any bitmap file, but in my case, I just deleted it.

If you do want to just change the wallpaper, then you will also want to find the key WallpaperStyle - you may have to create it.  Set the string to 0 (zero) to display the wallpaper bitmap centered; a value of 1 will tile it, and a value of 2 will stretch it to the screen resolution.

Hope this helps.  Don't forget to backup your registry before doing any of this!