Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock
Peanuts to Profits With Thor Schrock

I am sorry I have not posted in a couple days. When it rains it pours, and our launch event just happened to coordinate with a spike in our corporate and computer repair business. Not that I am complaining about being busy – you won’t ever hear that from me. But when you couple 19 hour days with a 3-month old baby, sleep becomes a precious commodity!

The launch event for the 2006 Holiday Special PC at the Villager Inn and Suites was a superb success last Friday. The gravity of the whole event did not completely register with me until we pulled into the Villager parking lot and I saw our name on the electronic marquee board on ‘O’ Street.

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Today I was contacted by the Midlands Business Journal to comment on a story regarding the implementation of networks in small business offices.

I was impressed that the interviewer wanted to explore the good and the evil of business networks. All to often business owners assume that having a network is better then not having one. In reality a business network is only really needed if there is more than one computer in the office that requires the use of a single printer or Internet connection.

In some cases, the liabilities of copyright infringement, improper Internet use and productivity losses to personal activities can negate any gains attained by implementing a network.

The story should be printed in a week or so, so don’t forget to pick up your copy!

Belly up to the table and help yourself to a nice helping of SPAM. NO I don’t mean the dinner table or the wonderful canned delecasy. Online security firms are reporting a 30% increase in the amount of SPAM email floating around the Internet over the past 2 months, and your computer may be guilty of sending some of it.

It seems that botnets are being increasingly used to serve up junk email to unsuspecting users across the Internet. A botnet is a large group of computers (usually in the thousands) that are not properly patched with the latest security updates. Because they are vulnerable, crackers across the globe can exploit these computers and use them to harvest the email addresses of your friends and family and then serve them up a healthy helping of junk email – over and over and over again.
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Ok, so maybe the title is a little misleading, but it was fun to write! A couple days ago I was driving through a Taco Bell drive thru picking up a highly-nutritious late evening dinner.

Right in front of me is a red SUV with magnetic Pete Ricketts signs on the side and www.peterickets.com across the back window.

I assumed this must be a campaign vehicle (seriously – who else would put magnetic political signs on their SUV) and being a Ricketts supporter, I wanted to buy their dinner for them.

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If you have awesome technical skills and a passion for customer service, Schrock Innovtaions is looking for another full-time technician to help us handle our on-site computer repair business.

As a full time technician with Schrock Innovations you will have the opportunity to work on computers in homes and businesses dealing with everything from virus and spyware infections to network migrations.

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Unless you are living under a rock, you probably already know that the home of the Machacek and Fullerton families in Lincoln, NE is currently being demolished by Ty and the gang with Extreme Home Makeover Edition. What you probably have not thought about is the technology it takes to keep a build like this on track, and that most of it comes from local providers like Schrock Innovations.

But first, a little background on the families involved… These two families desperately want to be married and live together as a single family. The Machacek family’s home in Havelock has a buckling foundation that has opened cracks in the walls of the home. The Fullerton family lives in an apartment, and does not have the needed space to house the five total children between both families.

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I am proud to announce that Schrock Innovations has just teamed up with the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce to handle their technology needs!

The Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry is the organization that “protects you from the people you elect.” They are the watch dogs that ensure your livelihoods remain strong and sustainable.

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Mozilla released a new version of Firefox yesterday hoping to steal the spotlight away from IE7 with their Firefox 2.

Firefox 2 has new security features that include anti-phishing technology and a completely redesigned interface made up from user feedback and input from organizations like NASA.

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This afternoon I had a conversation with one of our web development customers about the placement of her website in Google. She was concerned that she was not close enough to the top of the results in Google, which puzzled her given that she ranked well in Yahoo and MSN.

I explained to her that saying she does well in Yahoo and MSN but not in Google is like saying the Huskers can beat any Texas high school team out there, just not the college ones.

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Computer hackers based in East-Europe, Asia, and Thailand have successfully hacked into thousands of TD-Ameritrade, E-Trade, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab user accounts in what is being called the biggest single identity theft crime in history.

The heist is currently being investigated by the FBI, the SEC, and the National Association of Securities Dealers, and with good reason. New York-based E-Trade spent over $18 Million to compensate its users for losses and Nebraska-based TD-Ameritrade (formerly run by Pete Rickets) also lost an undisclosed amount of money as a result of the intrusion.

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