Alaska Computer Geeks

03/20/2023

More than just computer repair

11/09/2022

01/15/2022

Looking for the right person to help us grow our managed service offerings. Managed services is where we, as a third party, become the outsourced IT for companies typically too small to have their own dedicated IT department.

Experience is not as important as having an aptitude for the job, an aptitude test may be given to test your potential. This could be a great job for the techie that wants to get a start in the industry without having to attend an expensive school first. We will train the right person. Get immediate hands on experience In a real work environment and get paid to do it. Must be a quick learner, detailed oriented, good communication skills, as you will be dealing directly with the customers. Must act professional and able to work independently with assistance as necessary to complete the job. Must have your own transportation and phone. The job location is in Anchorage, but our service area is Alaska. This is a technical job and as such requires the ability to learn proper troubleshooting procedures, networking and an ability to grasp the concepts required to support commercial networks. We will help those interested obtain certifications to advance your career in the industry. Quick advancement and compensation as skills are learned. Our office is open 9-3 M-F so at a minimum 30 hrs a week however, we provide IT support, so work could be available outside our normal business hours depending on our clients needs. No health insurance yet, but we do offer paid time off and a 401k with a guaranteed contribution of 10% from the company. Come grow with us.

07/08/2021

Microsoft will never call you. Never talk to anyone on the phone that calls you, hang up and call their company back on their main number. Over the past few years we have seen ransomware attacks increase as more devices and services become available to people around the world that then get exploited to allow people to gain access and encrypt data. The biggest question we get is how can we protect ourselves. The sad fact is no matter how much money you spend, what products you use your not really ever fully protected. Grim facts. IT can argue different points but the facts are there will always be mistakes by people and IT that allow it to be a problem. What we recommend is offsite backups, buy multiple usb drives and rotate them as often as able. So the backup is made and it is unhooked from the PC/Network, the 2nd drive is hooked up for the next backup. WHAT ABOUT THE CLOUD JOSH! yeah, the cloud is great and we use it for backups for sure. Use Sharepoint and one-drive to push your important data to Sharepoint. If a malicious actor deletes your Sharepoint site it can be restored for 90 days, If they delete all the data from Sharepoint it can be rolled back for 30 days. WHAT IF THEY HACK MICROSOFT! Yup. That would be unfortunate but your doing the first mentioned backup with multiple drives so it means little. Can I trust Microsoft to not sell my data? Maybe? We never really know what happens. I love using their products and push them daily. IT makes the best choice with the information available for their clients/employer. There is no full proof method. Over the independence day weekend, the terrorist group DarkSyde ransomed over a million devices, through exploiting a MSP service. Months before that during the election they or another group ransomed solarwinds orion platform another MSP software for managing clients. The nature of IT has changed and is stressful and constantly changing. ALWAYS use Two Factor Authentication. Its irritating but do your IT dept a favor and stop complaining about it. We do not like it either and yes its still not full proof. Stop using simple passwords, ZERO words, 12+ characters , special characters and numbers. Stop adding a 1 or ! to the end. My last thought is the IT folks in banking, hospitals and other high risk environments, Keep your chin up, head on a swivel and we appreciate you.

06/02/2021

Some thoughts about GCI. Our local internet provider. Awhile ago gci would sell you home internet for 179.00 unlimited 1g with 50mbs out. If you have a business address they force you to purchase commercial internet for double the cost stating that you pay that extra price for better service, what they mean is responce time for issues. That would be fine except they dont provide any better service to business than home user. In the past it was slightly better. For the past two years it has been exactly the same. We service 1000’s of anchorage and matsu valley clients and have proved this is in error. The equipment provided to small business is a hitron modem leased to the client by gci. The same equipment provided to home users. I am failing to see the benefit of paying double for the exact same service. GCI is not a local company anymore. In past times companies were stopped from capitalizing on needs with drastic markup. I know speed is not a “need” just ability to be on the internet, except they are the only company here able to provide speeds above 500mbs in anchorage, and the only company to provide truely high speed internet except MTA that is a valley only company. This post is just to inform small business owners and alaska residents that one of our “own” has found a way to exploit us. I say provide the better service. Earn your wage. Stop stealing from the people. Switch to acs or borealis or atnt or verison. These services are not suitable for many business’s but if you can switch you should. In closing if you still think its totally fine then go look at the prices online. They show the residential pricing but no where do they declare pricing for small/medium or enterpise internet. So here is a couple.
Small business
400/20 1 terrabyte 225 per mo with overage charges
1000/50 1 terrabyte 350 per mo with overage
Charges

Residential
1000/50 unlimited. 179 per mo

As of 6/2/2021

04/10/2021

I received (2) Zotec Gaming Trinity OC RTX 3090’s today. These are the first 30 series cards we have received since last year. I left a message with the one person that was asking for a 3090 and have yet to receive a response. By Monday, I will have 1 or 2 cards available. They are priced at 20% over cost. $2565.00 each.

01/30/2021

As of this moment d
B&H has gigabyte rtx3090 for $1800 available. Don’t know how long it will last.

01/11/2021

I would like to know what boards people want Board’s that we should carry in stock for around the $200 price range. Sill focusing on AMD only currently, Intel will come later.

Our thoughts:

MSI MPG X570 Gaming Pro Carbon WiFi.

ASUS ROG Strix B550-F Gaming WiFi

01/02/2021

Card updates: currently we have several cards on order. We don’t know when they will ship, but we mixed them up a bit to see if we can stagger them in. We are already past expected ship date on some, and approaching the ship date on others. We currently have on order the following cards.

(2) 3090
(2) 6800
(8) 3080
(2) 3070

Watch this page as I will update what and when I receive them. If anyone wants anything ordered, let me know and I will see what I can do. I am limited on my options. Send me a message on what cards your looking for and I can add you to a list, I’ll call off the list. Expect 20% above msrp, as I have to pay full price plus shipping for all cards at this time, and of course credit card fees. If I need to order more cards I will.

Bob

12/29/2020

We got 2 RTX 3070’s. We put one in a computer to sell the other we are still going through the list of people that asked for it. This computer is ready to go today. $2080.55

12/19/2020

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We have mid to high end computers built in house in stock!
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