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Singularity University vs. traditional University Education
Opinions ? Watch the video... Keen On… The Future of the University Might Well be Singularity (TCTV) | TechCrunch
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Just flashed Tiamat's BT5 to my Xoom :)
The guys at Tiamat never cease to amaze me. I just flashed their Backtrack 5 with Aircrack to my Xoom. Unfortunately, the Xoom's wireless chipset doesn't support monitor mode but I do have a Hawking USB dongle that does, I'm just waiting for my OTG cable to arrive from Amazon so I can test it out. For GUI dependent BT…
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Did you guys see this on yahoo?
cities-jobs-future-mainstreet: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance check out #2 =)
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Go Strong Arm a Reduced Rate for AT&T DSL and U-Verse
I was considering dropping my naked DSL line because I cannot get U-Verse even though my CO is outfitted and I am within distance. Anyhow, that bugged me and the fact that they were advertising cheaper prices on U-Verse with faster speeds than the DSL was even capable of getting (plus the lower data cap on DSL bugs the…
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Wow, virus hits US drone fleet
No one is safe: Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet | Danger Room | Wired.com
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Felling like a try A-hole
So last Thursday my client decided to terminate someone who had put in there two weeks notice. I reset their password and disconnected them from all the network shares while the folks went in to terminate her. I went into exchange and instead of doing a "remove phone partnership" I hit "remote wipe". I completely…
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Joining a Client to a Domain Issue
Hello TE! I am attemping to add my PC to a domain controller (which is in VMware Workstation). After entering the name of the domain and entering the credentials (username and password) I get an error message which says: an attempt to resolve the dns name of a dc in the domain being joined has failed.Please verify this…
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Any (working) PDF to Speech apps for the iPhone / iPad out there ?
Any apps which can read PDFs out loud like the Kindle ?
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Windows 7 recovery
Hi, Does anyone know of any product that can backup a windows 7 box fully and have it restore to a dissimilar hardware PC. This is for disaster recovery purposes ( and legit! ) We are using a multi volume licence so wont be a problem licensing wise. Microsoft dont seem to support this. Acronis, ghost and backup exec seem…
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Weird question needs answer
Hi everybody. Today.something weird confused my mind. It is related to "remote access". For example; in order to get a web page from a web server, a request is sent across the network to the web server and once we receive a reply, that web page is displayed by our browser as you know. It is the same once logged in a forum…
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$35 android tablet
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/india/government-of-india-launches-the-elusive-35-tablet-retail-availability-in-november/716 I imagine we can see the price wars beginning. I think the Kindle Fire will have more of an impact in my market than this. Now if only they manage to get ferroelectic processors to market we'll see current…
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E1 / pri
i know E1 has 30 time slots / channels i.e. e1 can provide 30 telephone numbers. i want to know is there any method that service provider give me 50 telephone numbers on single e1. logically for 50 numbers i need 2 * E1. my equipment and mux support E1 only.what i request to service provider for pri numbers or E1 numbers.…
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Car troubles... Should I learn more about cars vs technology for a bit?
Sorry if this thread doesn't belong and delete accordingly if such is the case. Long story short, I have an 07 Dodge Ram (2500 Hemi) and the dealer sent out a 2 year maintenance notice to me in the mail. Several things were included in the list and I called my dealer to schedule an appointment. They told me they could get…
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Steve Jobs
put the pc vs mac thing aside he was a great man and brought computers along way rest in peace Apple
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Go Sprint!
Android? Check! IPhone (sigh)? Check! LTE? On the way: Sprint converts its network to LTE, plans 'aggressive rollout' to be completed by 2013 -- Engadget
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Best StackOverflow Question EVER!!!
We are building a specialized BOM explosion at work and in looking at different ways that people have implemented trees and other hierarchies we cam accross: c++ - Cycles in family tree software - Stack Overflow
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Anyone use the Youtube feature on your WiFi blue ray players? Is it any good?
Question speaks for itself. I am wondering if the youtube feature on blu-ray players is really good as far as what it offers. I mainly want to sign into youtube and watch all my subscriptions that I am subscribed to via my TV instead of my computer. It is getting really annoyed at how small my screen on my computer is.
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My first website
I bought a domain this weekend as I'm getting some business cards printed up. I'm not starting an actual company, these cards will contain my personal information and the A+ logo. I purchased the domain so I could have a professional email account. I plan to give them to people to cultivate some side work and more…
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Got a DNS issue I cant figure out....
Its not a biggie, I think I’ve just been looking at it too long, if you know what I mean… we set up a new cisco asa at a remote location. Rebuilt the vpn and had to change the subnet from 3.1 to 4.1. Sooo… new subnet 4.1 replaces 3.1. from the remote pc, can access our other subnets by ip. I can ping everything. i can rdp…
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Connect with fellow IT professionals.
Being a single It person at a company I miss chatting with fellow IT people. I was thinking about posting my AIM/gchat user name to add other IT pros to to chat with about whatever. If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please add me or post on this: Gchat (omgsully)
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I either know it or not.
hey guys I just wanted some advice or experiences that some of you may have probably experienced. To start off my problem or concern is that say for e.g I learn how to do a active directory authoritative restore but then few months later you feel that you've forgotten how to do it but when you sit on the computer start up…
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So My life is pretty much awesome
Got a job in I.T. and found the joy in being in clans on computer games!!! Playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 almost every night with my clan buddies and having awesome conversations is the best! :) Going to school Monday-Thursday and Working Help Desk Friday-Sunday. Man oh man! I love my life right now :) PC gaming and…
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Airmagnet question
What is the purpose of the switching the signal strength to Signal Strength (2nd AP) and the (3rd AP) after merging let's say three access points in a passive survey?What does it mean 2nd (3rd) AP?Am I looking at the 2nd or 3rd AP when I switched the signal strength? I know that I'm looking for grey spots, but what is the…
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Minnesota Represent!
Last Year RK rounded up some Ohio locals from TE to get together for a little TE social. I've been noticing more and more people from the Minnesota area and thought that it might be worth it to see if there would be any interest in doing something similar. So let me know if you're in the area and would be interested in…
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Attention: Admins / Mods please remove my account.
Kindly delete my account - I no longer use it / need it. Thank you.
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Cisco UCS and SAN Storage
So I know Cisco doesn't really make storage arrays. But I was wondering if it was possible to use lets say a C210 M2 fully populated with drives as San Storage for a Cisco B250 blade? I'm really kind of green to the whole storage side of things.
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Vista Home Premium keeps freezing / rebooting....
I've been playing detective with my computer trying to resolve an issue with it suddenly freezing or rebooting. Though I could just easily do a complete reinstall and call it a day, I'd much rather work my way through this just for the sake of experience in the long run. I've done antivirus/antiadware/antimalware scans,…
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Job interview and getting married!
My fiancee and I tied the knot. We are now officially hitched. That is one less item of stress in my life. It was a small wedding, but nice and effective :) Anyway I just wanted to let you all know. Next up is transitioning to Rochester MN. Movers arrived today and packed everything up. My wife's company picked up the tab.…
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Carbon Nano-tubes make cloaking device ( as in Predator or Klingon Bird of Prey)
Mirage effect helps researchers hide objects - YouTube WOW! 'Mirage-effect' helps researchers hide objects
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Windows 8 Dev Prev
Hi Thought I would see a thread about this already and jump on it, or maybe am just blind or havent looked hard enough anyhoo i have installed it on my HP NC 6320 but cant run the Vista VGA drivers (only VistaXP & 2K available) in as it detects a diffirent OS who knew Driver is "Intel 945GM Video Driver for Microsoft…
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Help With Subnetting
I received an assignment in my CCNA class and I'm not sure where to begin. I have been giving I.P. address of block of 10.10.0.0/16. I have three networks ranging from 1000 hosts up to 2700 hosts. Also, I have 5 routers in between the three networks. I read through the chapter and I'm at a loss. Any help is appreciated.…
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Off topic: Diabetes?
I have been recently diagnosed with Type II. Anyone else out there dealing with this?
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Cloud storage for syncing multiple computers
I recently tried out Ubuntu One cloud storage with a 20gb pack. The idea is to have access to certain critical files from any computer I use and keep these files in sync on all of my computers. Unfortunately the Ubuntu One Windows client does not work for me on Windows 7 due to known bugs. Can anyone recommend a cross…
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Apple.com
Apples website at the time of this posting. http://www.apple.com/ I lol'd a lot there. I'd hate to be that sysadmin!!! EDIT: GAH, they already fixed it. Dam their quickness!!!!
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CEH and "hacking"
My boss is CEH certified in the new version so every now and then, he gets invited to some of their webinars where they demonstrat hacking utility and techniques. He invited me to attend one of the webinars with him and wow...it's kind of scary how easy everything is. I'm never going to any banking website or logging in to…
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Posting Resumes
Hope you are all doing well! Questions about posting a resume: 1. I have heard that Dice and Monster are mainly the places to posts one resume for the best hit counts. Any other places that any of you had great hit success with? 2. Since one would be posting their resume on such a public place --- what information do you…
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Cisco Sales Expert
Anyone taken this exam? I have to knock it out for our partner status. Has anyone taken the exam and if so, what did you use for material? I am thinking I can use cisco.com for this bad boy but I don't want to underestimate it. Only things I have found online for this one has been ****. Anyone know of anything legit?
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Apple’s Rumored Virtual Assistant Could Outshine the New iPhone
Apple’s Rumored Virtual Assistant Could Outshine the New iPhone | Gadget Lab | Wired.com Thoughts? I'm really liking this, hopefully something similiar will show up on other phones.
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Web Development
My parents are asking me to put a website up for their small business. It is going to start off pretty simple (static content) but I will add stuff as time goes on. I use to do some development (asp, mysql, html, xml) about 6 years ago but I have lost that knowledge. I am looking for a few suggested books to get back in…
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Microsoft incorrectly detects Google Chrome as a trojan, removes "threat"
Summary: Microsoft has confirmed that its security tools erroneously removed the Google Chrome browser from Windows machines, marking it as a variant of the notorious Zeus (Zbot) malware family. Faulty Microsoft AV update nukes Chrome browser | ZDNet
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Exercise (running)
Do you guys run? Are you a morning or pm runner? Is it bad to take a shower after you run? When I was a kid, a friend of mine told me that I should rest first at least 30 minutes then take a shower. I am not sure if I'm going to run at night or morning.
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Certification Exams and Tricky Language
I know this is a non-certification forum but I just want to ask a general question about exams. Is it even possible to get a perfect score on one? Theoretically, I know it is; but it seems like some of the questions are intentionally designed to prevent people from doing that. For example, in the book I'm using there is a…
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Running Packet Tracer in Linux Ubuntu
I'm trying to get packet tracer to work on ubuntu. I downloaded the wine program and now I'm stuck. I ran winecfg in terminal and now I'm not sure of the next step. The tutorial I'm using says to run wine /path/to/PacketTracer_setup.exe next, but when I ran it in terminal got an error message saying "wine: cannot find…
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Techie Career Track Flowchart
An oldie... http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/11oct/uf002304.gif
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MCITP Certification
hey guys quick question does anybody know the size of the MCITP certification award. thanks.
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Setup / Installed creator
HI, I was wondering if any one had any ideas if there is a simple setup creator I could use. I have a application that uses the .NET frame work so it needs to be able to create install packages that first check if this is installed and if not ask the user to install before installing the application its self. I have seen a…
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Best SPAM E-mail
I laughed when I got this in my e-mail today:
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wierd one
This is a long story but i'll keep it short. I have a desktop i pulled out of the closet, it is running XP. Plugged it up, it booted to windows fine, but with a new keyboard and mouse combo I had to restart. when I did, no picture. I've troubleshoot the heck out of it, but cant figure it out. Ive removed RAM, Threw in…
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Has Anyone Upgraded to Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) Yet?
They started rolling it out yesterday, but I haven't been dinged for the update myself. I updated my Zune software, as indicated, but it still says that I am current.
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The Hits Just Keep Coming!
So I always like to hear about conspiracy theories because usually they are so outlandish that it is funny. One group of people controlling the world, secret societies, etc. All good fun, but like most I figure these people are nuts or trying to make a buck by hawking tshirts, books, and dvds. But in the past couple of…
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hacker vs hacker ...
Hire hackers to catch other hackers? | ZDNet i already thought it was like that its the new spy vs spy (ahh mad magazine)
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Job Titles Run a Muck?
I was interested to get peoples opinion on job titles and how useful they really are. The reason I ask is because this is now the second company that I have been in where job titles are somewhat meaningless, but also considered important. Allow me to explain, at my last company I was hired as an IT Tech. After a few months…
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VPN Recommendation?
A new version of software that we support has the capability to allow a centralized database, accessible from anywhere IF using a VPN connection. The end users always forget to backup their data, and I have had to restore it many times. By having the data in one location will make things a lot easier. So I need a simple…
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CRC / Checksum in iSCSI
Hi, Could you help me to understand this option please? I just wonder if it is apply only for security purpose or also files integrity. If I don’t use these settings, does it mean I agree my files can became corrupted sometimes? If I configure this, should it be enabled on both devices, server and SAN or on one will be…
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Anecdote
Back in June I attended an ITIL v3 Foundation Certificate course. 3 days. Did the exam at the end and passed, job done, happy days. A few weeks after that, I was asked to nominate a trainer for "trainer of the year". So I thought, why not, I'll nominate him - it was a good course and I did pass the exam at the end, so he…
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FireFox 5.0 released!
Hi, FireFox 5.0 was released few days back !!! , it looks and feels the same, any body used it yet?
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Alternative Snort usage
I know I am suppose to be on a little break but before I go, I want to know if anyone is running snort on Windows or using Snorby. My company *may* approve of building a small capture appliance or server soon. I know they are either going to want something that A: Runs on a familiar platform (we are a 100% windows shop) or…
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Politics at work...
As I have mentioned in the past, where I work is organizationally complex. I work for a joint venture that is technically an independent company from its parents. But in many ways we piggyback off one of the parent’s infrastructure (“Parent A”), although from an IT perspective we own our own hardware and we are responsible…
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If computer problems were real...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1jAr466DJc Awesome.
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VPN protocols
While studying for the Sec+, I came across an article that listed some of the more common encryption protocols (PPTP, L2TP, IPSec, MS-CHAP, etc.) and when to use each one. I read that PPTP is the only one capable of passing through an NAT firewall which I thought was interesting. The article also said that L2TP should be…
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Setup for streaming video
Higher ups want a solution to stream our all-hands meetings. We are currently using a cheap webcam that someone pans manually which is a pain in the rear. We feed this into a gotomeeting session. Since the worst part is moving the camera I looked at something like the QuickCam Orbit AF cam but we tried it and it doesn't…
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Recompute Base Encryption Hash
Don't ever do this! The Website is Down Episode #4: Sales Demolition (NSFW) - YouTube
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Mail Client for Mac OS X Lion
Hey guys, I finally bought a MBP 13". Question for Mac users, which mail client do you guys use on your Mac? I have Outlook 2011, and Mail.app, I can also download Thunderbird. I just want to know which one would you prefer and why? Thanks, thm
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MickeyDroid! Oh how lovely!
Please read and react to Disney's latest innovation.
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Post Your Speedtest Result
So, let's see your speedtest.net results from home. Work speeds don't count. This is at my new place. Could go for a faster connection, but I'm not sure how long I'll be in this building, so I don't want to deal with the hassle of new fiber installation. Even though I have fiber now, different companies aren't allowed to…
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MS Staff walks out on Ballmer's speech
Microsoft employees walk out during ballmer speech- The Inquirer
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Wiring Schematics
Does anyone have any experience creating wiring schematics with Visio 2007? I asked if we had some electrical blueprints or wiring schematics for the building I work in and the freshest electrical diagram is from 1991; the building has had physical alterations and serious electrical and networking work done since then. I…
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Anyone know powerpoint?
I need to import 300 jpgs to a PP show...but im not looking forward to inserting slide by slide. Is there a utility or macro or something out there to auto insert images 1 per page?
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CompuTron99 Jr.
I was able to add Father to my list of titles 3 weeks ago today with the birth of our son.
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The Kid Still Got It!
So when I moved to night shift, I was super excited. Over a year taking tons of calls/tickets a day a little break was in order. But one thing I worried about (still worried about) was whether or not it was going to affect my troubleshooting skills. I always felt I was very good a troubleshooting and knew that a lack of…
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HP Micro Server - what a lovely toy (especially with 16TB raw storage)
I love this little box. Especially since there is a nice cash-back offer in the UK (The N36L though, with 1.3Ghz and 250GB HDD). I was looking for a small NAS with 'potential' so that was the best choice really. My main concern was a remote management card, so I had a system built based on SuperMicro so I can add an IPMI…
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Remote App on Droid Tablet
Had an interesting ticket from one of our end users. They were wanting to use their droid tablet for Remote App access. I Googled around, and couldn't find any rdp app for droid that specifically said it could or couldn't do this. I really don't feel like installing a bunch of different rdp clients on my phone to see if it…
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Document Redirection Issue in SBS
I had to change an account name of a user now he can't access his my documents folder. Folder redirection is enabled by default on SBS 2003 and when I check his my documents folder it's still pointing to the old account name. How do I get it to point to the new account name? Please help.
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Internet Usage Policy
Does anyone have any type of policy out there that they can help me with? We're experiencing some people using the internet for leisure. As of right now we don't have a full policy in place. My boss has caught a few people, obviously they're gone now. We were talking on Friday about writing up some type of policy, does…
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whats a good investment??
whats a good investment now a days?? Anyone have experience in investing ?? Stocks?? Property?? Gold??
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Certs for the poor?
Hey guys, So a former coworker from Geek Squad is trying to get his certs and break into real IT. He's got two kids and a wife who has been really sick and he's working for $12/hr rebuilding servers under the table and makes a few bucks off craigslist cleaning viruses and setting up web sites. But can't quite seems to…
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2012 Skills Plans
I'd like to take a little time out to start a 2012 thread of a different type. I'd like to know what skills your are desiring to pick up in 2012. For me, I'd like to learn linux (LAMP, Security, etc) as well as network security and packet analysis. I also feel like I should relearn web development as several people have…
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*Welcome to the new TechExams.net!*
I'm pleased to introduce to you the new TE! Took a "tad" longer than expected, which was expected but it took even longer than that. This upgrade was what we internally refer to as phase one of TEv4 and besides a major forum upgrade provides us with a better system for integrating additional features. Phase two will be…
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Reverse Engineering
I am a student of Mechanical Engineering from India. Next year, I'll be graduating. I want to build my career in reverse engineering. What do I need to do, any course or something? What is the career prospect of a reverse engineer? plz respond.
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Problem with Terminal Services
We installed Terminal Services onto our server at work, which is a Windows 2003 Server and is a Domain Controller. Since then none of us have been able to RDP onto the server using our admin account (which we were previously able to do without problems). After getting the windows logon screen and entering our account…
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Windows Server 8
Hey guys So Ive been reading and watching a few videos on youtube regarding Windows Server 8 and I wanted to ask you guys what do you think of it so far do you think it will be successful OS or do you think its going to end up like Vista.
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Win 8 Fast Boot Mode
This looks really interesting. Windows 8 will have some killer changes from an internals perspective! Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8 - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
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Home web server on Ubuntu Server 11.04
I am trying to host my own website, because I am tired of paying hosting fee's. Here's what I have done so far: 1. Installed Ubuntu Server (LAMP and OpenSSH) - local IP address = 192.168.1.112 2. Configured my router to have a static IP address - public IP address = 24.16.246.232 - set up port forwarding to forward port 80…
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Justifcation for keeping a layer 2 network homogenous
Hello network minded folks, I am getting static from finance and hoping someone can give me a little advice. What reasons would you give them to justify keeping your switches as just one brand(cisco, juniper, brocade, etc). We use cisco on the switch side so i told them i can't stack other brands with the current equipment…
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Network Engineering Supplies???
hey guys any suggestion on good decent priced network supplies. I forget what it is called drawing a blank but they are the GLbit adapters for trunk ports on say a cisco 3560 poe switch? I think they are called GL bits but can some one help me LOL! but I am looking for a supplier of decent network engineering supplies.…
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upgrade smc switch
I was given a 12 port smc switch which I'm trying to upgrade the firmware on. I can't seem to access the web interface. I was told the default ip address is 192.168.2.10 but I can't seem to get on it.
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Kindle Books now available to borrow from over 11k libraries
Kindle books now ready for borrowing from public libraries - Computerworld
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Help with installing Win2003 x64 on Hp Microserver
I am having issues installing win 2003 server x64 on my HP Microserver server. If I load the default optimal BIOS which then enables AHCI then the OS does not recognise the HDD on installation. If I disable AHCI, then the computer freezes or takes more than 2 hours before it reboots after the blue screen stages. If I force…
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VSS 1440 - Technology 6500/6700
Just curious if anyone has experience with VSS. I have a project sometime in the near future and was wondering if you could setup VSS Domain with only one Chassis and implement the second switch in the future? Could it still be prepped/pre-configured in that manner? Thanks
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Outlook stuck in MIME mode
One of the managers came back from vacation, and when they logged into outlook this morning, all their messages are being received in MIME mode. One message, when pasted into Word is 157 pages long. They have also lost their formatting (seeing who the messages are from). That will not restore, messages cannot be deleted,…
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AdTran Routers or ASA firewalls needed for EVPL?
we are upgrading our Verizon E-Lan point to point connection with an EVPL. the verizon guy wants us to put in 2 AdTran routers and config each end like that. We are currently adding an ASA 5510 at each location. wouldnt the firewalls be needed anyway? It seems the AdTrans are redundant since routing can be done on the…
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Robocopy error?
Hi All, I'm having some weird issues with Robocopy and I typically never have any issues with it before this. So I got two new ISUIZ drives and put them in a raid 1 configuration. I'm coping data from the other old drives (the D parition of the old drives to be exact) to the new drives and this is what I've been using…
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I brought some critical questions about ISP monitoring
Hey guys, i need your assistance concerned with damn censorship in my country. It reached a level even access to VPN sites is blocked by my ISP. They totally ruined everything. What im trying to say clearly is i have some critical questions about this censorship. For now there is no legal censorship applied until 22th day…
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The last lecture - motivation/book review.
So two days ago, I had the pleasure of reading this book: Amazon.com: The Last Lecture (9781401323257): Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow: Books While I'm sure many of you guys have heard of "the last lecture", It was new to me. The book is about a Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon university who was diagnosed with…
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TLS 1.0 Uh-oh
Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites ? The Register Interesting article, especially since TLS 1.0 (or SSL 3.0) is required for PCI Compliance. I've found that we usually go with TLS because most browsers have it checked off by default. I'll be interested if they make another requirement change to PCI…
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Games Tranfer Behavior
BBC - Newsbeat - Gamers try to use 'virtual skills' in real world Give me a break. It's just a new version of putting the milk in the pantry and your cereal in the fridge.
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ASA to Cisco Router IPSEC VPN
Anybody do alot of these. I am having a problem. Tunnel won't turn it (won't get past phase one). This is in my test environment between a Cisco ASA 5520 and a 2801. Take a look here: ASA:crypto ipsec transform-set Router2ASA esp-aes-256 esp-sha-hmaccrypto ipsec security-association lifetime seconds 28800crypto ipsec…
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Cisco 887 ADSL connection problem
Hi I have problem with Cisco 887 and ADSL connection and wonder if somebody can advice something. It is new installed device and was working fine for last 2 weeks. Today got a call from the site about internet problem so tried to get access to router and wasn’t able. Asked them to reboot and it started to work –…
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Cheap, Renewable Energy
This looks very exciting. Penn State Researchers Discover Method of Off-Grid Hydrogen Production | CleanTechnica Abstract: Hydrogen production from inexhaustible supplies of fresh and salt water using microbial reverse-electrodialysis electrolysis cells PDF of full article requires paid access. Sign In
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Wow SSL FAIL
Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites ? The Register I personally think that this is only going to get worse.