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Public IP’s for switch, best practices?
Recently I have been doing work for a client of ours who has Public IP’s attached to their Catalyst 2960’s. Now each office has a Cisco router in place and we can get into those via the WAN, but every other Cisco installation I’ve done work for, and it has not been many, usually will allow you to SSH into the router from…
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Todd Lammle interview in Packet Pushers podcast
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Anyone having hard/software problems on leap day?
Once every four years there is a mini-Y2K opportunity on February 29th to discover for OEMs and vendors which of their products they forgot to test for operation on leap day. I've already run across one custom software package that has no concept of leap day, and is forcing users to enter records using the date March 1st.…
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Apple and Windows Server
Does anybody else find this somewhat humorous? FYI - I did a search on Google, they only use linux. Note the only domain that is associated with windows is also associated with apple jobs...
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If you're an average worker in this forever recession
If You're An Average Worker, You're Going Straight To The Bottom - Business Insider I thought this was a good read.
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Citrix seems to know more than Apple does :)
Considering that the latest iOS is 5.0.1 :)
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Computers In Movies And Television
Starring the Computer
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Buy vs. Build
I have built dozens of PC's, mostly 5-10 years ago though. Built a gaming rig for someone last August, that being my most recent experience. I appreciate the customization that is possible with personally selecting each and every component. However, does anyone know of a place to buy turn key pc systems cheap? I don't need…
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The day Finland lost internet
I received this story via email on NANOG, and felt it was worth sharing and also deserved to be posted somewhere. I laughed a lot when I read it, I don't know how much of a geek that makes me. It's one of those stories like "The day Pakistan brought down youtube" :
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Os that took on windows
Maximum PC | 11 OSes that Tried (and failed) to Take Down Windows - Page 1 i still have fond memories of BeOS
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Wireshark
Hey guys, I am stuck trying to figure out this issue in my network. A customer was receiving our multicast feeds but then it stopped working. From our software that detects multicast gaps it reported that their were none. We use "Pim Dense-Mode" for multicast data. None of our other customers have experienced a problem.…
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To all who cares 3D video games
I have been playing video games since 2002, i mean about 10 years. In this time, i have learned so much related to video games aside from how they are programmed. However, there are still suspicions on my mind in certain cases. Especially the significance of VRAM and how lack of amount of this affects the gameplay and…
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Crucial security questions
Hey guyz, somethin' significant came into my mind. In these days, i have been playing Guild Wars. Nevertheless, im a little bit insecure if i need forward the relevant ports. (6112, TCP connection) I saw that, without forwarding, downloading speed remains so slow and lags often occur , making the game unplayable. On the…
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mobile sprint service
there's a few of us who work in a building that has no or little sprint service. does anyone have any suggestions to improve our service? we do not want to change providers. thanks much!
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I hate this attitude in I.T
Working alongside this guy at the moment who is Linux / Unix guru who on a different level to me in terms of comprehension I swear my brain is wired differently to his, reads machine code like it's childs play writes C and numerous other languages and is a Linux / Unix guru I admire him for his networking knowledge and all…
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Assistance on selecting a desktop or laptop with desktop feel (docking station)
Obviously our household didn't make much last year the misses was still in school and only worked the last 3 months of the year we also have two children. Anyway the return is going to be fairly hefty. I am looking for some assistance. The misses already is going to get a IPAD 3 when they come out and I really don't see…
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Credit card PC for only £15 ($20)
Register here to express an interest in Raspberry Pi Think I might get one of these. home web server maybe, or I was thinking get a few and could have it running as servers in LAB environment... But for £21 for the higher spec model this looks to be a fun bit of kit to play with :)
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Interpol arrests suspected 'Anonymous' hackers
Source #1 (Telegraph):Dozens of suspected Anonymous hackers arrested in worldwide sweep - Telegraph Source #2 (CNN) : Interpol arrests suspected 'Anonymous' hackers - CNN.com
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ARP operates at which layer?
Its all complicated in the internet,expecting a simple answer.
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Screen resolution on laptop - on docking station
My laptop has always worked fine until recently... While at the office I have my laptop connected via the connection station with dual screen monitors. Before when I took my laptop off the docking station and open it up, it'll reset the screen size - not anymore. Whenever I take it off the dock it'll still think that it's…
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One for the Linux Professors :)
Centos system with two drives ( non raided) O/S is installed to main drive, Currently nothing is happening with the second drive not partition table has been created. So How do I initialize the disk then partition it with a File System then Mount it i'd prefer to do through CLI but if there is a GUI tool then that's kool…
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Printing from Outlook........
Trying to print an email from Outlook gives a white screen. Alt + F4 will clear it. I have searched and searched for the cause, but can't find it. Just wondering how to fix. Any help would be appreciated!!!
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GPON in Enterprise LAN??
Anyone have experience with GPON in a LAN setting? We are currently working with a vendor to bring this up in a new site as a pilot for possible future projects. Wondering if anyone has worked with this in a corporate "fiber to the desktop" setting. How well does it work? Any issues with supporting this remotely? What do…
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WL300N-AR router and broadcast question?
I'm doing an internship for this place and I need some advice. They currently have three Ambicon WL300N-ARs in their network. They are set up as AP and everything has been running fine untill we tried to put a security DVR/camera behind each of the ambicon routers. The first one worked without any issues but once we…
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build question
So I have a family friend that just started there own business and wants me as his IT guy. I am a network guy by trade so I have a few question for you guys. He has three employees through out Canada they are all using drop box right now to share files etc. He would like a better option so what I was thinking is building a…
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Looking for a new e-reader
Yesterday the screen on my Kindle 3 got frozen and I was not able to fix it with the standard hard reset. This is the second time this happens, the first time the device was still in warranty so Amazon replaced it, but now I can't relay on that and I'll probably have to buy another one. Does somebody know if the new…
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Why the hell wow graphics look so awful whereas Guild Wars is pretty better?
Im not here to criticize wow but i have tried both of them on my rather old laptop which has integrated graphics supporting pixel shader 2. i had bought Guild Wars and played it approximately a year then returned later. (first time of return in 2008 and second was a week ago.) I downloaded the wow starter edition which is…
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Under Sea Cable Break off East African Coast
East Africa's high-speed internet access has been severely disrupted after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-optic cables off Kenya's coast. The ship was waiting to enter Mombasa - one of Africa's busiest ports - when it anchored in a restricted area. It could take up to 14 days to repair, cable owners The East African…
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Is Cloud Computing and Services effecting Jobs
Hello there TechExamers! Is Cloud Computing effecting jobs ? Like is the need for IT professionals in the field of Network Adminstration and System Administration and other related jobs in effect ?
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Help setting up a VPN connection
I figure it is about time I tried something a bit different. I want to be able to setup a VPN connection from my laptop back to my network. At first I thought of going to one of those wireless hot spots to try it but then figured could it also be done from my friend's house many miles away? i.e. I take my laptop to his…
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css style sheets
Why with the style below does the output for the main body lose the blank line before and after <p> tags? I have tried adding in line spacing at various points with no result, but how can I get the default behaviour of <p> back with in the main-body? *{ margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}a{ text-decoration: none;}.wrapper{ width:…
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It's a network world
I advocate people take CCNA to get the networked foundation first. Then if servers interest them other than networking invest in MS/Novell/Linux/Unix certs to suit. Looking at the posts on the MS vs Cisco boards there is a trend.. Cisco = 167254 MS = 95243 My numbers might be off as I took a stab at it anyway..seems…
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Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops
Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops | Privacy Inc. - CNET News Wow did anyone talk about this?
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Basic Windows XP to7 question
I'm doing an upgrade (sort of) to a new Windows 7 machine from an XP machine. All programs (from the C drive) can be reinstalled as necessary for a fresh start on a new hard drive running Win 7... however, mp3 files, movies and other non-system files were kept on a rather large separate SATA internal hard drive (F drive)…
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port forwarding necessity/unnecessity for online games
A must check guide PC Gaming Tips: Port Forwarding: Slaying the Mythical Dragon of Online PC Gaming.
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Internet connection drops!
Hi In our MD's house, we have fibre optic connection given by the ISP upto Distribution box inside the house where the fibre optic cable is connected to HUAWEI-ECHOLFIE HG865 terminal .From the RJ 45 port in that device , the ethernet cable goes to the DLINK 8 port switch. All the 8 ports are connected with ethernet cables…
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Samba, ssh and unmanaged switch
I am having a problem understanding this: if I have pc1 (acting as a samba server) connected to an unmanaged switch, how does pc4 also connected to an unmanaged switch browse pc1 shares or try to ssh into it if an unmanged switch only uses mac addresses? Both unmanaged switchs are behind a netgear router, so same subnet:…
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Daily duties of a CCNA
I recently took a position of an IT director. In the past I worked as Helpdesk technician, desktop technician, and Microsoft System Administrator and IT Project manager. Now finally I took the IT Director position few weeks ago. As you can see my background is on Windows platform and I have very little knowledge on Cisco…
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Mouse Pointer colour when using tsclient / rdesktop on RHEL
I am running RHEL on one of my laptops (works perfectly on a T61 I must say) but when RDP'ing to a server the mouse pointer is black. With most server having a rather dark background, it is hard to "find" the pointer. Is there a way to change this at all ? On a second note, anyone know how to enable the trackpad 'mouse…
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How is the Real World of IT ?
Hello TechExamers! I am currently a student and never did any job before and will be graduating soon by God's grace. Can you please guide me and tell me more about the real world ? Do employers expect you to know everything and saved in your brain or do you guys use guidelines, instructions or use search engines like…
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Is this network safe?
I was working on the network at a family friends store the other day and ran into something I questioned: They have an insecure wireless network inside their firewall that customers use. Does this pose a security threat? Seems to me this could be used as an entrance into the network, yes? Thanks!
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Password Manager Recommendations
Any suggestions for a good password manager? I have been using 1Password...but it is a bit pricey.
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Canadian Radio Interview With a Former Member of Anonymous
CBC.ca Player
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ASA Bandwidth Monitoring
Are there any bandwidth monitoring tools out there that would allow me to view bandwidth utilization by IP? Our link was utilized at 100% this morning for about 45 minutes, and it would be nice if I could figure out who was using what.
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Dell Power Vault nx1950 with an MD3000 issue
Hello, I am trying to make use of our iSCSI system. The SAN has 15 bays (each with a 300GB drive). Bays 4, 6, and 14 were reporting failures. I replaced the drive with good ones (same model, size, etc). After swapping the drive, I still have errors on the same bays. We plan on wiping this system out, and rebuilding it from…
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Join a domain via IE
I was looking at Windows SBS 2011 server and it has a program that allows an administrator to go to a Windows Client and surf to the SBS serverhttps://<server_name>/connect on IE and it will automate the joining to domain, creates the new domain account and then copies the local users profiles to a new domain account. Has…
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"With New Standard, Wi-Fi Could Become As Widespread As Cellular"
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-02/wi-fi-could-become-widespread-cellular
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testing urls with script
Hi guys, maybe some one can hep me with this. I am trying to test URL from a script if they exist or not. the one problem is that if the website hangs then the code never completed as it does not get a return. I want to create a bit of code to time out after X second if the httpRequest.send command does not return. Set…
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Books For Upcoming Not Yet Released Certifications
Hi, Just wondering how do authors know what information to put in their books to be in line with exam objectives when those objectives are not yet released? Example: There are many titles that are available for pre-order on amazon for the next installment of A+
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Encrypt first
Two Cases' Lessons: If Cops Don't Know What You Encrypted, They Can't Make You Decrypt It - Forbes
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How to share a Macbook Air screen on external monitor?
Ok Ive been digging around, and haven't found an answer on how to do this. I have a user who just got a Macbook Air, but wants to use it for meetings and share the screen on both the external monitor and the laptop. He is so used to doing this on his old PC machine, that it is driving him nuts on how to do it on the Mac.…
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What's your oldest email address?
I have an AOL one I still use when I was 18 years old. My email is seriously 18 years old . lOf course I have a professional one now that I created 5+ years ago. I'm just curious, mine is closing in on 20 years!
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Consent of the Networked
Consent of the Networked Have you guys read this? If you are going to participate in the conversation, please at the least listen to the TED talk. I'd love to hear your thoughts on her opinions.
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Neat tool to mount VM images on Windows
Found that by accident .... Got a vsphere 5 VMDK of a VM I needed access to A bit tricky unless you got a vSphere server somewhere (or vm player / vmware workstation) The “vSphere 5.0 Virtual Disk Development Kit” let’s you mount VMDKs in Windows Works a treat – BUT – my VM is Linux so I looked for a way to read EXT3…
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Networking questions
Hi all, Building a network, and im having some issues, I believe my first issue is IP addressing. This is the network layout: Ok. now right now I am working on the modem-router-fw connection. The fw connection itself seems to be working, meaning I can ping from an internal host to the firewall. I cannot however get…
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Do You Need A College Degree To Become A Programmer?
Here's a recent blog article attempting to answer a question that many people here at TE might also have. Do You Need A College Degree To Become A Programmer?
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Question about signal on wires...
Hello Forum, in some cables one of the wires is called the signal wire and the other the reference wire.... But AC voltage is carried by both wires at the same time. Potential difference is a differential quantity. Why is only one of the wires called the signal wire? thanks antennaboy
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leak information from anywhere just by pulling a pin
"The Transparency Grenade" Interesting item...
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IT Salary Guide 2012
http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHT_SalaryGuide_2012.pdf Are you underpaid or overpaid?
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ISO installation programs
Hey TE I downloaded a couple ISO files and I know at work its a certain program we run in order to install these file types. Do any of you know of a program I can use to install the application from the iso file....having a real brain fart right now...can't think of the program at all we use at work
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gmail and you
11 ways to make Gmail smarter | How To - CNET i knew most of them but i thought id pass it along ... seeing as most of us here use gmail for personal or school
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How many email do you receive per day
I just joined a new company, which is quite a large corporate. I am working for the infrastructure team here as sys admin. As a result we are copied into every single IT related conversation including automated messages from certain services (monitoring / av and the sorts) ... I just checked, I was not in yesterday and…
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Stay a while and listen...
So here's a fun story. Hopefully someone will get a kick out of this: Last week was a helluva week. Failed my exam, Fiance failed her driving test, she gets a nail in the back-driverside tire and I spend 500 something to get it all fixed... That's not to mention this little gem at work! So I work at a company, whom I…
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Outlook 2007 - Can you create a meeting people book themselves into?
Hey All, This may seem like a strange request but i am investigating whether you can create a meeting within outlook 2007 that people book themselves into. What i am trying to achieve is creating a calendar in our public folders that is an open invite. I want staff to be able to book themselves into a certain session of…
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The myth of the 8 hour sleep
BBC News - The myth of the eight-hour sleep Some interesting parts of the article.
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Virtuabox Cannot ping Host From Guest
hey guys Windows 7 box is my Host 192.168.1.4 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1 Disabled the firewall on 7 and after doing that I can Ping My Virtual Server which Is Ubuntu Server, the problem I am having is I cannot seem to Ping from The Server to the Host. Here are the details of the Server ( Ubuntu ) I am not to sure what the…
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Top 10 “Riskiest” Online Cities of 2012 Presented by Norton
Source: Top 10 The Top 10 Riskiest Online Cities in the U.S. are:#1 – Washington, D.C. #2 – Seattle #3 – San Francisco #4 – Atlanta #5 – Boston #6 – Denver #7 – Minneapolis #8 – Sacramento, Calif. #9 – Raleigh, N.C. #10 – Austin, Texas Cities with the greatest risk factors do not necessarily correlate with the highest…
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Mozilla's Boot2Gecko = WebOS?
First Look: Mozilla's Boot2Gecko Mobile Platform and Gaia UI | Webmonkey | Wired.com Isn't this exactly what WebOS is?
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lunch
what do yall do for your lunch break? i cook (i dont trust microwaves much so i use a stove outside) and then i watch some netflix
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How would you guys approach this MS Server 03 to 08 upgrade?
Ok Boys, heres one for ya.....Network upgrade time!!! We have 3 sites (one rarely used) Everthing is at 1 site now, the whole virtual infrastructure...2 DC's, DHCP, dns spread out over different machines. fsmo roles were, but now consolidated. Seperate servers for "profiles"... roaming profiles, apps, fileshares etc etc...…
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Opions wanted about current JOB OFFER
Okay so as some of you may know i have been interning for a company for the past 6 months (counts as one of my college courses). Well finally today they held a meeting with me and offered me a job for when i graduate in May. The position is for a Desktop Engineer role and i would be paid in the low 40's annually and i…
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Sorry, we're all full up
Spectrum Crunch: The cell phone industry hits its limits - Feb. 21, 2012
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Creating nice web forms
I am looking for a half decent application to create web forms. I could create them by hand, but its so much effort to get them looking decent. Things like word create ugly code I could go the whole hog with some thing like Dreamweaver, if I wanted to shell out a lot of cash. I just looking for something that will create a…
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CBS.log corrupted after running sfc /scanow
I got this CBS.log windir\logs\cbs\cbs.log C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log After running sfc /scannow, they say it couldn't repair those files. I am running Windows 7 32 bit OS. Any solution on resolving this issue?
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Network email issue
Hi guys, I've got an odd issue here at work and was looking for some input/thoughts. We have an HVAC system that emails monitoring alerts to several of us. The issue is that these alerts are varied in arrival times, meaning some are on time, others show up anywhere from 2-25 hours after the alert was issued, often times in…
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Thinking about hosting my own web server. Is there any reason that I shouldn't?
I would like to do this just to get the knowledge and know how to do it. As the title states, I would like to host my own web server solely from home. The page it would host would be whatever I upload to it. What are the downsides of doing this? Will my electric bill go through the roof ( I see no reason why it would ),…
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ICS Android. Check it out guys!
androiddevelopers's Channel - YouTube Live release party Who watched it? Any thoughts? Looks like Sprint might not get it?
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Video tape - PAL to NTSC.
This is a far shot, but does anyone on here have any experience in converting video tapes? Let me explain a little. I'm originally from England, been over in the states for about 8 years now. My mother has a lot of video tapes from when us young-uns were growing up. Obviously since the US has NTSC they won't play in a…
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A couple of questions regarding port forwarding
Port forwarding is needed when an outsider(lets say 'authorized') is about to access the resources of the private network or specific hosts inside that network if those hosts are behind a NAT/PAT applying device like router cos this feature prevents incoming packets coming from outsiders accessing the private network by…
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Am I on the right track?
I am going to install a rack in my new office (long story after reading my last post in job forum). I'll be getting to build the network from the ground up. I don't need nothing special. For servers it's only going to be my exchange/dc and then a storage server. I'm going to get a Cisco router for firewall/router. I want…
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Linux I.P Address Woes
Running Ubuntu 11.10 Serve in virtual box I am ever so slightly confused, When I am logged on as a user and cat ifconfig here are the results # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp user@shinobi:/etc/network$ the interface is configured…
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New Users cannot connect to exchange - New issue!
Hey All, I am really hoping someone can help me out here. Just recently (unsure exactly when) any new users we started creating on the system are unable to connect to exchange. Background: We are running Terminal services on 2003 using exchange 2003 with outlook 2007 as our client. We have been running this environment for…
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FBI could take down internet on March 8th
FBI could take down Internet for millions on March 8 - Yahoo! News
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Free DVD Ripper Joiner
Anyone know a decent free program in which I can stick two films onto a dvd then rip them to play via dvd player Many Thanks
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Anyone Using TAPATALK for Android on TechExams.net????
I heard alot about Tapatalk for easy Forum management via mobile. In fact, i could have sworn i saw people on these forums with a tapatalk reference in their signature. Anyway, i just downloaded it for Droid and i can't seem to find out how to use it for this forum (if supported). I browsed for it (no luck), searched (no…
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SIP vs. VoIP
can someone explain to me the main difference? i read a few articles online however i am still a bit confused. thanks!
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Windows can't access internet, but can access local network.
I've got a computer that just started to act weird. It'll keep a network connection live to my local network and randomly not be able to access the internet. When it stopped working I pinged 4.2.2.2 and got full replies. Same with tracert. Seems as though the TCP/IP stack is flaking out. Anyone know of any fixes?
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System Restore Points deleted after reboot
Anybody have this problem before? I have read a few suggestions online. Before, I was able to leave my system restore max usage at 1%. I have tried a few methods including doing sfc /scannow, chkdsk /f/r. none of that actually resolved the issue. But when I move to slider for max usage to 20%, it seems to work, didn't…
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Ever had problems remembering HTTP status codes?
I'm sure some of you have seen this..... but I found this hilarious.... especially 508, 413, 422 HTTP Status Dogs or if you're cat inclined.... HTTP Status Cats - Page 1 of 7
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Keyboard jeans are true 'laptop'
What do you guys think? http://news.discovery.com/tech/keyboard-jeans-120216.html
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Apple Sold More iOS Devices in 2011 Than Macs in 28 Years
Apple Sold More iOS Devices in 2011 Than Macs in 28 Years
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Donated computer: Blessing or curse?
The nonprofit I volunteer at recently had a computer donated to it by one of the board members. While it is newer than the loaner we were using, it is far from new. While I really do appreciate the gesture, no one understood how bad of a situation this presented. The computer had been wiped and had the OS re-installed from…
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Ergonomics
Anybody here suffer from any pains due to sitting in wrong positions and/or non-ergonomic hardware ? I recently started having wrist pains and am now looking for recommendations, just wanted to see if any of you use ergonomic keyboard and mouse that you would recommend. There are just so many options out there.
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34 today and need a tech toy
Hey guys, just truned 34 today and I'm thinking about buying myself a tech toy. The only problem is that i've got damn near everything: iPhone, Gtablet, laptop, flat screen TVs, blu ray, etc.. Anyone have any good ideas for a cool tech toy?
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Server work vs. networking
Hello all, First of all, I am new to this site, and was wondering if I could have some clarification on a few things. I am in school working on a BA (non-IT related degree) but am looking to go into a career in IT. I am going the certification route. I have my A+ as of now, but I have a few more questions. I understand…
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It's Been One of Those Weeks!
Awful week so far and I need to vent. This week has confirmed why I didn't want to do end-user support anymore. We have a hosted VOIP solution (it sucks) and I am the contact person for when something goes wrong with it (put it on the new guy who knows nothing about the phone system). So basically, something goes wrong I…
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Unauthorized access by an unknown person (how to detect at what time, on which comp)
Hi guys, an adjacent person complained about an unauthorized access from his computer. Someone unknown or unknown to him, had browsed a couple of website without his permission which is suggestive. The problem is, the victim doesn't know the time or place in which the unauthorized access had been performed. He demanded it…
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Youtube video downloader for business
Anyone know of a youtube video downloader that does not have any third party spyware crap built in (opencandy). We need something that is reliable and isn't going to install a bunch of crap on the computer. Also no website downloaders as they use Java which is very easy to exploit. We are willing to spend money if need be.…
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nifty project
Visual Network Threat Level Indicator i think ill be making one of them this month
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Different sampling rate during playback?
For ex. assume you are playing Skyrim or listening to music(i mean some application containing audio) and the sample rate on your Realtek HD sound card is selected as 16-bit 44100 Hz. However, once the sample rate is "even" raised to a higher value, nothing changes in terms of hearing the sound coming out. Why not? In…