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Cars: The next frontier for security experts
Found a couple articles pertaining to security vulnerabilities in your car. The second one is better than the first in my opinion. Cars: The Next Victims of Cyberattacks - IEEE Spectrum With hacking, music can take control of your car | ITworld
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Swiss Army Knife with 1 TB eSata SSD
Victorinox Announces 1TB Swiss Army SSD - CES 2012 Update - The SSD Review I'd so love to have one.
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In a Rut!
Hello TE! I am in a kind of mental jam (please pardon me for being emotional) but I am 24 and will be 25 in a few weeks. My DST position was elimnated in Sept. 2011 because that wanted someone "higher up" (in which case they shouldn't had hired me), completed a Cable technician project in last month and look for a perm.…
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Issue When Studying
I have an issue when studying/reviewing a subject. When I read I get a pain/headache and don't really know why. Does this happens to anyone of you?
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Star Wars EP1 3D screening from Symantec - Select cities Feb 10th
Symantec is sponsoring a screening on February 10th in select cities. Although it is an invitation only event you may want to reach out to your rep if you didn't get the invite. No better excuse to get out of the office.
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Net Master HD now .99 cents today (iPad)
Saw the right on Gizmodo for 99 cents today. Not a bad app for a buck.
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BGP Issue - Need help
I have a router with two links, a T1 for back up and a MetroEthernet pipe as the primary. I have BGP on this but when I no shut the T1 interface the site seems to complain about slow speeds, and it seems like their might be some traffic going over the T1, when everything should be going out the Metro pipe, traffic should…
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Very odd issue - Firewall issue or something else? Really important!
All, I am having a very odd issue right now. Our developers are trying to gain access to a webpage for particular development purposes. I've given the public range of IP's our network uses to the other company who is hosting this web server so that we can gain access to it. Well, in the main domain (non development) we can…
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Wifi protected setup vulnerability
In case you haven't heard, the Wifi protected setup PIN can be brute forced within a reasonable amount of time: Wi-Fi Protected Setup Vulnerable to Brute Force Attacks | News | Mobile Enterprise(ME)
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Linux question
For you Linux experts, I have a linux system in which I am trying to mount a 2tb hard disk. the drive has files I want to keep, and is formatted NTFS. The disk shows up in the GUI and I can mount it to a mount point in the file system but I need to get the information needed to add it to /etc/fstab so it will mount on…
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New Job
I just took a new job with a company headquartered in the Northern Virginia area. They are looking to bring me in as a leader of their infrastructure and to transition into a management/leader position. This is a company I used to work for that called me back to offer me a better position with better salary opportunities.…
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WHS or...
Hi all, I'm looking for a home server solution. Mainly what im looking for is to be able to back up data from the numerous computers that I own, and centralize them, so I can use the files (e.x. training videos, ect) from other locations. The ability to use the sever as a VPN for my portable devices is a nice touch of…
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Hackers get Symantec Anti-Virus Source Code
Hackers Get Symantec Anti-Virus Source Code | Threat Level | Wired.com For enterprise products, but sheesh this is ridiculous! Thoughts? I actually like Norton Internet Security, which is pretty lightweight, so hopefully this isn't compromised as well!
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Ergonomics chairs ?
I have a $120 computer chair but Its not really helping my back. I need something better since I am sitting in front of my computer on the whole day at home. Im looking for something with back support and head rest. Around $150 to $250. Any ideas? What are you guys using at home?
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I think I got carried away on ebay, grr
I will still honour the sale and buy it of course but was just wondering what other people thought and there opinion on how much I over bid Asus P5Q Deluxe Core2Quad E6600 4 X 1Gig Corsair XMS2 OCZ SSD Vertex 2 30Gig Also the guy claims he will throw in a Coolermaster V8 heatsink And my winning bid was £185 + £10 delivery…
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Should Internet Access be Considered a Human or Civil Right?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/opinion/internet-access-is-not-a-human-right.html Opinions?
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Plumbing Tech: Gatorbite is Awesome!
I just thought I would share for my fellow tech folks that are DYIers of various sorts. I had a leak in my outside spigot for a couple of years. It was one of those that closed the valve far inside the wall to prevent this sort of thing... but nevertheless it failed. I repaired it twice a year by replacing the guts of the…
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SCCM/Config Manager client issues and troubleshooting tips
I need to come up with a list of troublleshooting steps for my helpdesk guys to use when trying to figure out why a client isn't getting updats via configman\sccm. For those of you out there that have dealt with it could you list your steps in fixing issues or give me a link of what has helped you fix issues. Example:…
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Samsung drive faulty
Hi Do Samsung own Seagate or do Seagate own Samsung, or neither? I was directed to Seagate to check a warranty status on a HDD I have small black number on the drive next to some chinese 2009.12 which I assumed was the date of manufacture, and on Samsung website they say 24 Months is the warranty on a HDD Can anyone…
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Kindle Fire
I just bought this guy to read cert books on at work when I get a free second. I am very impressed by all the other functionality of it. It certainly does not pack the raw power of an ipad but for 200 dollars it seems a hell of a deal. Any other kindle owners have an opinion?
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Connecting to a Cisco Router via Rollover
Hello everyone I think I got this into the right section, anyways. I am trying to access a Cisco 2500 Router via hyper terminal from a XP workstation. The workstation connects to a patch panel via RJ45. From the patch panel I was connection to the console port using... RJ45.... =\ and getting nothing. The settings that…
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How hard is it to get into Harvard and MIT?
Assuming you're not like a double legacy and assuming you want to study engineering or computer science. How good are the engineering and computer science programs at Harvard and MIT? I'm a junior in high school and ranked in the top 2%. The valedictorian of last year's graduating class had a 4.5 weighted GPA (4.0 uw) and…
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The Word & Brown
Does anybody work or knows anything about The Word & Brown company? They want to schedule for a phone interview.
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Learning a lot - thread
There was a thread on here that I briefly went over where someone mentioned a good way to learn a lot about web servers. They mentioned doing it from a linux system from scratch several times and then doing it on a windows system. I can't find the thread and I can't remember who posted it
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thank you
today im coming up on my 1000th post on here and ive realized a few things* with out this site i would not know what the best books/resources are for the certs im taking * i would have quit wgu * i would have gotten stuck with no were to turn to * im not alone all and all this site is one of the golden nuggets on the…
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Running 32 bit programs on 64 bit OS
I just got Win 7 64 bit and a lot of the programs that one of my guys has been using is on Win XP 32 bit. Is there anyway that I can change how it runs to work on Win 7 64 bit?
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Viewing Documents in a web browser in Sharepoint
One of my clients has a need for a way to share documents in a way that people are unable to save them to their desktop or otherwise edit them at all. I seem to remember that Sharepoint has this ability but when I search for documentation I get simple "this is how you share a document in a list" kind of stuff. Does anyone…
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Out of sheer curiosity- has anyone ever attended Cal Tech on these boards?
Anyone at all? Would love to ask some questions about the experience etc. Thanks!
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DOCSIS 2.0 or 3.0?
I have just signed up for cable internet through Comcast and in order to avoid their $7/month modem rental fee, I decided to buy my own. I found http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002M3SHXA/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details and after checking Comcast's compatibility list it seemed to be a good deal. Now someone is trying to tell…
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Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year!!! 3more hours if you're at NYC. 6 more hours if you're in SoCal! Where are you at NYE? What's your plan for 2012? Im at home labbing! The plan is to continue to study hard.
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Need assistance from a programmer please!
So, I was messing around with the sockets API and thought "Why not try and write a telnet client?". What was trying to do was connect from a linux system to a telnet server on a windows system. I am able to do so with the "built-in" telnet client from linux to the windows computer. Problem I'm having is that when I run my…
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B.S. vs M.S.
Hello, I recently graduated with a couple of B.A's in the humanities from my local university. After graduation, I somehow got a job in it based on my knowledge of computers (with nothing to prove it). I am now enrolled online through the local community college and almost done with an A.A.S in networking. My question is…
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New computer build for virtualization/WGU studying
If this is in the wrong place, move it as you see fit. I start WGU in the spring, and pretty much get dumped right into the meat of the program, so I want to get ahead of the game on upgrading my main desktop for virtualization. I plan on reusing the guts from my current desktop to run a server on it's own (AMD 64 X2 215…
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Is this a waste of technology?
Slapping Your Brother Across the Face with an iPad Looks Like a Lot of Fun
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I'm surveying web hosting, any recommendations?
Greetings, I'm looking at getting some hosting setup so they can host pictures I've taken either in Coppermine or some other web-based picture software. Free Flickr isn't cutting it for me. This is the first time I've have ever done this and so I'm not sure what type of questions to ask or what type of possible hidden fees…
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Technical Writing Class
Does anybody know of a good technical writing class or book out there. I've been writing "how-to" docs for most of the jobs I've had and there is a big push to get detailed documentation into our DR notebooks. Looking for something to help me with formatting, style as well as standardization. Mostly it is to help me build…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 AntiVirus
Can you guys recommend an Antivirus for Windows Server 2008 R2 x64? I thought it is gonna be easy to find one, but unfortunately it is not. Thanks
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WSUS alternative
I remember reading about a linux install a few years ago that can download and or push out updates to Windows clients. If I remember correctly it involved installing a client application on the Windows machines that would then communicate with the linux server. Does anyone remember what it was called?
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12000 Pages in 2012?
So we continuing the trend or what?
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Windows 7 Question - Services
How can I change permissions to only allow Domain Admins the rights to Start and Stop certain services?
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Cisco Live 2012 London
Any TE's attending? I found out today that I won a competition to go!!
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PST Backup
Hello, I am searching for the best method to backup .PST files to a NAS. The .PST will be used local and the NAS backup will be for protection. We currently utilize a NETAPP NAS backup with folder redirection of my documents to NAS and offline files enabled with sync schedule. We don't want to use .PST for this however due…
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Optiplex 755
Hi Does anyone know if this PC can have dual display by installing a low graphics card and using the on-board at same time I have been given another monitor in work and several graphics cards but not had a chance to test it as it was late in the day last week I am also being told by a colleague that once a graphics card is…
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Why my next phone will probably be an Iphone
I have been an Android user for a few years now. I currently own a HTC EVO 4G on Sprint Yesterday I got an Iphone 4S from work (as my "beeper") and all I can say is that I am impressed much more than I thought I could be by a phone. It is just so cussing smooth. It did most of what I need right out of the box. At this…
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Copying TrainSignal videos to Ipad2
I have a couple of TS videos I want to move to the Ipad so I can watch them anywhere. May sound like a stupid question, but I do I do this? Music transfers right away, but not video.
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OS X Preview
Hey guys, I am using OS X Preview to read my pdf. I like it except for bookmarking the page. For some reason when I bookmarked a page and I opened a different pdf and bookmarked a page from that pdf, Preview put all the bookmarks together whether the bookmarks are from a different pdf. Is there a way to keep the bookmarks…
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CompTIA certifications
Hello, I'm novice here and I hope that I will gain new experiences and knowledge about Microsoft and CISCO from this forum. And also I will try to be benefit to this forum as will be possible . I explored a little this forum and I found CompTIA certifications . I've never heard of that. Please can you tell how much are…
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System Administration Tools used in real world.
Hello everyone. I am a student and was wondering what 3rd party softwares and other tools are used in System administration. Tools for NAS/SAN, Data Backup,Security and more. Thanks.
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Design for consultants
For those of you that do consulting, what type of design material do you study (or are all of your designs based on experience)?
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Putty...
I hate having to launch putty when I am on a window system to use ssh. Anyone know of a command line client? Seriously, I just want to type "ssh servername01" and it work. Nothing more. Ideas?
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Favorite IPad apps
Those of you who use an IPad daily, what's your favorite apps for productivity, relaxing, etc.
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Laptop for GNS3
I know this has been asked here and I have looked but most Threads on this topic are old. I am moving to a new job and will need to buy a laptop for myself and school and wanted to really start using GNS3 however most of the readings I have done say more memory better as each router consumes around 200 mb. My question was…
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Holodeck by Microsoft
Not sure if this was shared here before. Pretty sweet tech brought to you by Microsoft. To build a holodeck: an exclusive look at Microsoft's Edison lab | The Verge
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So anyone get any good tech gifts this year?
I personally didn't but all that was on my list was cookbooks. I did however buy myself the CCNP Library. My mother of all people got a Kindle Fire and she doesn't even know what to do with it.
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IP address addition
If we could add IP addresses ( only IPv4), adding 192.168.1.1 and 10.1.1.1 gives 202.169.2.2: [FONT=lucida console] 192.168.1.1 + 010.001.1.1 ----------- 202.169.2.2[/FONT] How would you handle octets greater than 254? Cary over to next octet? [FONT=lucida console] 192.168.1.1 + 010.100.1.1 -----------…
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OK guys... heres your weekly EVPL problem thread
real quick, we installed 2 new Adtran routers joining our main and remote sites. our term servers are at the main site, many times a day (especially end users running telnet based apps) users on thin clients at BOTH sites are now getting "protocol error" messages that kill their rdp connections and they have to log back…
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Forum Trolls Beware!
Luckily we do not have many, if any, on this forum, but I thought I would share anyway.
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Written notice which says "I don't have any company stuff on that laptop"
Can someone come up with a decent paragraph which can be signed by someone who bought an old company laptop and agrees / confirms that there is nothing company related stored on it ? I am somewhat struggling (not native myself) .. Seems easy I know - but it also has to be "right" :) Any help is appreciated ..
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Great resources for polishing your tech skills
A few great resources for polishing your technical skills | TechRepublic
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HP Tippingpoint manuals
Hi guys, merry Christmas! I'm wondering if anyone knows how and where can I get hp tippingpoint IPS manuals or administration guides. I've spent a lot of time digging through the HP website (hate it) and internets but I had no luck though. We'll be getting a S660N box (without sms, locally managed only) soon and I'd like…
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Merry christmas!!!!!!
advanced merry Christmas IT PROS!!!!!!! Its Friday and its the last day of work! 3 days of holidays with family! What are your plans for this weekend? Me? Spend time with my family, change oil of the car, clean the filter, install car mods and sacrifice 1 day of labbing!
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SQL Help
OK, I am not a DBA, but I am also not a total noob at MS SQL either. We are putting in a new EMR / EHR system at my client which has 2x apache tomcat based app servers (hardware load balanced) that talk to a MS SQL database backend (2 node SQL cluster) for about 100 concurrent connections. We had a problem with one of the…
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Best IT Field
Im looking into transferring to Wgu to receive my bachelors in IT. After i get my associates and im really having trouble on which field i should specialize in or just get a general IT degree. I really just want some of you guys personal opinions or just from personal experiences on which career path is best.
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Are They Starting to Get It?
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Online gaming question
Hey, i had had a chance to play the beta of Star Wars TOR at the weekend(extended 4-day gameplay) taking advantage of the beta code i received from gamespot then redeeming it. Once i downloaded the game client it was alright. I should have been connected to the game server. However, there are things i do not understand. I…
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How to find where a security group is applied?
Hi everyone, I've been searching for a way to find where a security group is applied but still I can't find any. Please don't point softwares out there since I am not allowed to use what I want due to security compliance. Is there a command to show where a security group is applied? or maybe a one liner powershell script.…
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Hello! Just a question or two!
Hello everyone, I'm going in the Army as a 25U and I was googling around, found this site had A LOT of valuable advice on what to do after getting out of the Army. After I read all the great advice, I decided to join up...I've gone to a community college for CIS and that was OK, but as a 25U, I'm going to be a glorified IT…
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Wireless adapter for blu ray player
Anything special about these, or can I use a standard USB wireless adapter?
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Foolish question for video gaming
I know 3D video gaming is a highly demanding process. There is a variety of graphics cards as well as it is on microprocessors. On the the other side, you know microprocessors are as significant as graphics cards on video gaming cos everything goes through them first. What i need to know is "by knowing the advantages of…
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Printer logon script not running on Win7 machines?
Hi, I created 2 GPO's (both logon scripts: 1 for mapping network drives, the other for installing our network printers). When I log into Windows XP Pro machines, both scripts run fine. However, when I log into a Win 7 Pro machine, only the mapping drive script runs, the printer script does not. I turned off UAC and gave…
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10 things your IT guy wants you to know...
Someone just sent this to me, pretty funny... 10 things your IT guy wants you to know… | FailDesk I especially like #10. Being "The e-mail guy", I've put up with that one a lot. Constant jokes (often within my own department) about me reading everybody's e-mail, like I have nothing better to do.
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How Much Do You Sleep?
Not going to call it a New Year's Resolution, but one of my goals is to start sleeping less. With night work I actually sleep less then I normally would during the week (about 6 hours, sometimes 7), but on the weekend....12 hours or more a night. It got me thinking, how many hours of sleep do you guys get? Has anyone…
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White Spaces - WIFI
The Next Billion Dollar Wireless Industry Has Officially Launched This could be a cool little businesses to get into....
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blocking the use of USB ports
We have just been instructed to block the usage of USB ports on our workstations, but due to the fact that we have usb keyboards and mouses, we need to keep 2 open, any clues?
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laptop DVD drive doesn't burn any DVDs. help!
I am gonna blow up my mind this time. I experience really hard times with my CD/DVD drive on my toshiba laptop. I almost stirred all web pages about my drive. It's full name : TSSTCorp CDDVDW TS-L632H ATA Device This drive can read CDs, DVDs but doesn't burn files on my computer to the DVD-R. I do not have any idea what i…
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Now this would be a cool datacenter to work in...
This Norwegian Data Center Is Built in a Cave and Cooled by Fjords I love caves, and I've always wanted to go to Norway. I bet the area around it is beautiful too.
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Please help me :(
Hello, I just stumbled across this site while doing some research for an assignment. I know this might sound really basic but i've just started a foundation degree involving cisco networking. I'll try to explain my problem as best I can, but please bear with me cos even my terminology may be well off :) lol Also please see…
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Authentication: Access SharePoint Locks AD Account
I could use some help. I've not had the time to do a capture with WireShark because it's end of year and the user is exceptionally busy. Here is the issue: * User's account is fine until he access SharePoint (WSS 3.0 using NTLM auth). After doing some work, passthrough NTLM with IE7 is all fine, until suddenly he will be…
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Win7 new install, imported my data disks and when i click the drive - "folder empty"
had to replace my "C" drive... win7 machine. i did a fresh install, then added my 2 other hard drives and imported them through disk mgr but when i click on them it just says "folder empty." if i rt click on them, i can see they are half full... why cant i get at the data?
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Signed contract for company paid courses?
Hi Guys, Just wondering what your take on this is as i know many will have come across or have experienced this. My company in the UK is sending alot of people on courses but they want us to sign 18 month agreements, so if we leave in that period we will have to pay X amount towards the course fee. The value decrements as…
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iSCSI switch?
For those of you with home or office labs, what kind of switch are you using for iSCSI traffic? Now that I have time to redo the lab I'm debating if I want a cheap switch or something along the lines of a Procurve 1810 that offers VLAN tagging and some other nice management features.
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Program to monitor other programs?
Hey guys hopefully someone here can help me with my current dilemma. I am trying to find a program that could somehow alert me when a different program fails/errors/closes out. Let me try to explain. Windows XP computer running 3 programs 24/7. I need these programs up and running 24/7. I am trying to find a way for the…
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Q - Why can't I ping a particular IP over the 'net?
Hi Guys, I'm trying to troubleshoot an issue in work and I've hit a wall. We have a client with several locations around the UK. Every location has a Draytek 2710 router and a Cisco ASA5505 on site which we support (there is other equipment connected but we only look after the router & ASA). The router is connected to a…
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Good article on tcpdump
Good article from Linux journal on tcpdump Linux Journal | The Original Magazine of the Linux Community And packet sniffing basics http://m.linuxjournal.com/content/packet-sniffing-basics
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Cisco Water cooling
Came across this a little while ago. Notice the equipment is still running. Note: This is not my equipment, just a picture I came across.
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IT Christmas Carols
I found this list of IT Christmas Carols in a networking blog. It was too good not to start a thread about it. See what Christmas Carol names (or song lyrics) you can come up with :D Oh, Spanning Tree I’ll Be /home for Christmas #FFFFFF Christmas Rockin’ Around the Source Tree Little Toner Drummer Boy Blu-Ray Christmas…
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Verizon May Abandon FiOS TV and Internet
According to this link, Lame: Verizon is abandoning its FiOS TV & internet service to pursue wireless partnerships I tried googling another related articles, but I can't find them. So I am not convinced yet, but the thought of it is quite scary. Don't you agree? My parent's a FiOS customer, and I like their service so far.…
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Java help
Hi Guys, Was wondering if anyone could help me. Im very new to java and was wondering if you can write a script for it to calculate the differents in days two date filed boxes has entered in them. So say the start date was 01/12/2011 and finish was 12/12/2011 I want to have a box (which is numeric) show the amount of days…
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Sonicwall Site to Site VPN tz 170 and tz 180
hello, like to get some help on site to site vpn on sonic wall,Tunnel is up but not able to ping the lan network ,only able to ping sonicwall gateway,but when i enter gateway of the internal network, the tunel is down...
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Creating Network Diagram with VRF...help!
I'm been trying to find a good way of creating a network diagram with VRF that makes sense, and everything I've come up with so far looks like crap! Anyone have experience or examples of network diagrams that shows how devices connects to one another within the same device? What I mean is that we have 6509's with FWSM, ACE…
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Newb Intro
I have browsed these forums a lot in the past year or so and decided to register a while back to view some of the post. Well Thought it was about time to say hello My name is Will hence the name. I am Retired Army. I am currently a Systems Engineer/Network Engineer for National Networks in Nederland, TX I am working toward…
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to late to turn around?
Hello everyone, I have been very undecided lately. I am 21 years old and finishing 2 associates one AA and the other an A.S. Already done with all my microsoft courses for MCITP and CCNA. I have been working in I.T for 3.5 years now and have my CCNA and recently my MCP. At my current job i am very limited to networking and…
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ATT/ Tmobile deal is done
AT&T Can't Sell Its Assets Fast Enough To Take Over T-Mobile
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Any good material to read for tips on customer service/working phones?
I just got a wonderful new job (thanks partially to advice received from this forum). Part of my job is client-facing, which is something I'm not used to. While I'm sure that will be part of my initial training, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on good books to read to get me into the right customer service…
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Wireshark University
Has anyone done any of the online courses? If they aren't too bad, 699 isn't a high price. Especially compared to something like SANS training. https://lcuportal2.com/
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New Year's Resolutions for 2012
I know we're 16 days away from New Year's Eve, but what is everyone's New Year's Resolution(s)? Mine are:* Finish MCITP:EA (Taking 1 of the 3 remaining exams this month) * Get healthy. (Not just lose weight, but over all health - mentally and physically!) * Pay down debt (Already started this!) * Pickup a new hobby * and…
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I need a Cisco ASA book
Hello all, I want to get more into configuring a cisco asa. I have looked for books and found some good reviews, but there's nothing like asking people that have real world experience. I recently got my hands on an ASA and don't know too much about them. What are your recommendations? Right now I'm currently studying…
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Vendor presentations
[rant] So for the last few months I've been meeting with various vendors who want to sell my company gadgets and ice cream. While it's fortunate that I have a budget which makes this possible to begin with, I'm also an extremely busy guy. I have a long laundry list of things to get done that can't be done soon enough. So…
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Getting Burned Out... Thinking of Changing Direction
I am getting burned out and perhaps it is just a temporary thing. I think I just need to get some better short-term goals. Who knows... all of my current goals are too far out. Anyhow, I am thinking of getting into physics. My undergrad was in Information Systems, but went heavy in math as I wanted to take physics for my…
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Co-worker sent me a book...
Microsoft Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook by Mike Pfeiffer I guess he ordered copies for the entire team. I'm sure the company paid for it... not a cheap book!