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MS Excel – SKU011.cab error

This a technical post. From time to time we will share basic tech tips or helpdesk items that we are seeing repeated at multiple customer sites. Certain operations in Excel or Outlook can cause Office 2003 to lose track of it's installation files. The indicator that this has happened is an error stating that the file SKU011.cab cannot be found. This is a bewildering problem for many users, but we have an easy, quick and free fix. (as with all tech issues, we recommend our clients contact ...

2008 Economic Stimulus Act Provides Tax Benefits to Businesses

The IRS passed legislation in 2008 which allows for businesses to claim higher expenses than in previous years. From the IRS web site: Under the new law, a qualifying business can expense up to $250,000 of section 179 property purchased by the taxpayer in a tax year beginning in 2008. Absent this legislation, the 2008 expensing limit for section 179 property would have been $128,000. The $250,000 amount provided under the new law is reduced if the cost of all section 179 property placed in s...

Twitter users give away their passwords

On 11-12-2008 stories started to circulate about a third party website that is duping users into entering the credentials they use for Twitter. Twitter is a social networking site where users write messages up to 140 characters in length to each other via SMS, web and email. While web scams are nothing new, this latest story underscores the importance of adhering to strong password policies and using common sense on the web. Twitter users who entered their credentials on this bogus site h...

Wireless security – not so secure

According to this article on Engadget, another wireless protocol has been cracked. Wireless security has gone through several changes and protocols in efforts to remain secure, but as computers have become faster hackers have been able to decode encrypted wireless traffic at faster and faster speeds. The WPA protocol used to secure wireless traffic, once thought to be uncrackable, can now be decoded and wireless traffic reviewed (or even worse altered) in flight in 15 minutes. WPA2, a n...