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Server 2k3 file share question
Hi People just added a file server role to my server, and I am trying to access the share from another computer, I have set the permissions of the share to be accessed by everyone. When I try and access the share from a Windows XP box I am being greeted with a username credentials box? The Server is setup as a DC, does the…
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Hi from Illinois
Just wanted to say "Hi all!". New member and SO glad I stumbled upon this site! A WEALTH of great information here! Frank
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Anybody can be a security auditor apparently
This thread is just facepalm. Did the auditor do security for Sony previously or something??
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Where to buy cool IT lanyards?
I broke my lanyard the other day and would like to get a new one that has something to do with IT. The only place I've found so far has been ThinkGeek. Anybody have any good ideas? Thanks, Jake
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Stop being held back by yourself
Your Excuses Literally Possess You Like a Demon i read that earlier this morning ... it really hit home so i thought id share it here
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Palo Alto
Anybody work with any of there gear?
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back to school sales on usb drives
on the ride into work i kept hearing that usb drives are going on sale for back to school. so i thought id post this to give ya ideas on things to do with them (im sure most of ya know them already) add stuff to the list Six cool things to do with your USB flash drive | How To - CNET
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Web Based Project
Morning guys I really need your help, A little background about myself I am 26 years old and from the Uk and living with HSV-2 (herpes virus). Now before you guys go whoa! what is this all about please bear with me lol. I have been doing some research and would like to support other people in a similar situation as myself,…
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Clarification on Cisco Mobile AnyConnect license
I have a client that needs to purchase a Cisco Mobile AnyConnect license. I found them on CDW for around $90. I'm having trouble understanding if I need anything else in addition to this license to make things work. I have a PIX506E that is terminating the VPN. Do I need to purchase any additional software or just one…
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Microsoft's Cloud Data Centers
Interesting video. "This video will provide a deeper look at how Microsoft uses secure, reliable, scalable and efficient best practices to deliver over 200 cloud services to more than a billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries.It provides an understanding at how we view our end-to-end cloud strategy…
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How you look fixing a computer
Too True! How People see You when You Fix Their Computer versus Reality [Humorous Image] - How-To Geek ETC
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Most creative pranks (using technology)
Devilsbane's shutdown thread got me thinking... What is the most creative prank you have played on a coworker that used technology to carry it out? Using the Annoyatron from ThinkGeek or similar does not count!
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Anyone else garden?
I'm not sure if anyone else has started such an off-topic discussion... My wife and I love to garden. For this year it's peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers. I really wasn't in to eating hot stuff until I met my wife. This year we have cayenne, cow horn, and habanero peppers growing. Above is one of the cow horn peppers.
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Looking for an alternative to Splunk.
As part of trying to make our environment more manageable, secure, and available - I've had a desire to consolidate logs to a centralized location for identifying issues, reporting, trending, etc. Splunk is pretty slick, but frankly our budget would never accommodate purchasing it and we would go through the 500mb/day…
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Tips for becoming an IT executive for a company
If I wanted to become an IT excutive for a company, what would I have to do? Also are those IT excutives considered higher then a IT manager?
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Moving to Night Shift!
When I was first hired I was hired to be a NOC Tech. I came on and they didn't really have a dedicated NOC Team, it was more of do helpdesk until something NOC related popped up. I did fairly well and they moved me to helpdesk on a permanent basis (I wasn't given a choice as I wanted to stay on the NOC once a regular team…
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Aborting a shutdown
Is there any way to stop a shutdown after it has already started? A coworker of mine thinks he is all fancy by turning off his computer at the end of the day using the shutdown -r command and leaving all of his apps open. I keep trying to get in there with the shutdown -a to abort the shutdown but he is clever and leaves…
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How do you all track and report on your SLA's?
Currently I am working with a incident management system with a very unfriendly reporting function. Are there any solutions that are cheap or free? I am looking at tracking time related SLA's. Like how long a tech does an activity. The formula is easy to create, it's capturing the data that is the challenge. Any…
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8GB DDR3 Sticks of ram
A friend of mine just built a new machine to run hyper-V at home. He claims he purchased 4 8GB sticks of Kingston ram. He is suppose to send me the part number because I am unable to find 8gb sticks on Kingston's, fry's, or newegg's website. Everything I have found was 2x4gb kits. We are talking about desktop ram, I know…
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Pay scale?
I've been looking for pay ranges but can't find any. I plan on getting my B.S. from WGU in IT, and then my M.S. from Colorado State in CIS. Any links to info on payscales in CIS at the Master's level? Thanks!
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H+
Brain implant for always-on Internet goes awry in new Web series
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Omgomgomg
Nerdgasm p.s. Go see Captain America it was excellent.
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How do you Retain technical knowledge while going to school?
How do you guy's retain your technical skills when going to school? I am doing contract jobs in IT and am experimenting with lots of computer hardware and have learned so much, yet my tech skills are getting kind of tucked away in my brain even when I go to school. I go to school mostly during the year and during the…
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KMS problem
Ok I hope I am in the right spot for this thread. I am having a problem at work with a KMS server and was hoping one of you knowledgeable people can help me out. I have a volume licence of office 2010 that I am trying to get deployed though out our organization. We have a a 2008 AD environment with mostly all XP and a few…
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San Jose Workforce Skills Center
I was perusing through the Cisco Learning Network forums and happened to come across this: http://www.sjworkforce.org/ Here's the class schedule: http://www.sjworkforce.org/index.php/classs I didn't look into this much at all, but for the price it might be worth it to some folks, so I'm just passing it on. They have a free…
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creating a file on CIsco IOS.
Imagen this, no xmodem/tftp/http etc access to a cisco device, all I can do it get a ssh connection to it via a BAstin server. So all I can do is send strings to the cli. What I want to do is replace the running/start up config as they are croupted. pasting the new one in does not work, as it simple merges the two. So what…
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Any IPhone Guru? Error 3194, 1600 (RESOLVED)
I got a used IPhone 3Gs and Itune tried to update it and now I get error 3194 during restore no matter what I do. I googled and tried different methods, but I either get error 3194 or 1015. I used iReb, Tinyumbrella, Blackrn1 and few others, same issue. The phone had Cydia on it, so I assume it was jailbroken. There is no…
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Linux question
hi all. i'm doing a pentest on my internal network. I have 2 vms, one client and one server. I was able to get 1 root password by performing a man in the middle attack, the client was sending its credentials across the network (over ftp). I want to force the other to do the same. is there any way to do this?
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Sysinternals Administrator's Reference
I know you are familiar with the tools and I know you think you know how to use them. But you need to read Windows Sysinternals Administrator's Reference. I've finished the first 3 chapters and have to say that this is an amazing book. If you pride yourself on being a strong Windows admin then I have to say this is…
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SSD HDD for Labbing Machine (MCITP)
Hello guys, I am in progress of doing my MCITP and have recently received my Dell Poweredge T110 a few days ago. I'll be going off to a local mall to get two pieces of ECC RAM(s) (8GB). Since I am going to load VMWare on the machine, should i purchase a SSD Drive (64GB) to run 2 OS's off of it? 64GB as its within my price…
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do you remember when
yep im old
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Computer Class Ideas?
I work for a small PC Repair shop and recently had a discussion with my boss about offering a "Computer Basics" type class once a month. I know how I would like to do it, but it is the what that I am having trouble with. So what kind of basic classes would you recommend I offer. Keeping in mind my target audience is more…
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Chess app
I would like to start/be part of/a TE Chess Club, or any Chess club. I'm grateful that I have a chess app on my Droid Charge. I just haven't had time to really play with people (even over Yahoo). Trying to get this school thing done with. Aiki-Jujitsu is something I want to get back into. I got into my AJ stance with that…
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Incoming static NAT on TMG 2010 ?
I am currently playing with the Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010. For now there is only the TMG server (used as gateway) and a client. The client has only a private IP. Now I added another public IP to the TMG server and created a static NAT rule. That is working just fine. At least when testing with whatsmyip.org…
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Google+ TechExams Circle!!
Let's make a TechExams circle, we'll need to add each other. The best way to give a link to add you is to go to Google Plus Nick and create a link using your Forum name from here and your Google ID. I'll start. http://gplus.to/database my username is different because i already did this on another forum with a different…
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Online storage and file delivery
Anyone have experience with YouSendIt.com? Yousendit.com is running a special for $49.99: Unlimited online storage (I know, a grain of salt...) Send and receive files up to 2gb. I like the ability to share files, and choose which files to store online. I have several backups. I email myself small files to several accounts.…
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Using Microsoft LDCS as a study method?
Ive been putting some thought of recent on why I have failed exams (of recent and in the past). I read and re-read all the materials that I have for the exam, go thru a video series or 2, lab out for hours on each of the required topics, use the technology on a daily basis for my job and then sit and fail the exam. Maybe…
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Own domain?
How many of you have your own domain? My colleague and I keep giving another friend a hard time because his @gmail address looks so generic. We both have first@lastname.com. On the other hand, it's hilarious how when I give out the email to non-techie people they think I am given them a fake address. A few months ago I…
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basic password protection per folder
Trying to get a recommended software to do the follow... Basically need to password protect by folder for a shared folder on a windows 7 home premium computer.... Not looking for anything fancy just if you try to open a folder you have to enter a password first... Any ideas? Thanks Guys!
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Google Labs closes it's doors
7 Ways Google Labs Changed the Internet Forever
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Top Heavy?
The question of the day, do you list your lesser certs? On your resume or LinkedIn or whatnot? I came across a post today on LinkedIn in which someone said they were seeking a high level cert, the EC-Council LPT. They said: "I passed the ECSA and hope to become an LPT. I have the CEH, CISSP and CISA." Now for some reason,…
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Mac Laptop for IT?
I'm really hyped over the new Macbook Air that is releasing this month. Are any of you techies using a Macbook for IT related functions? For Ex. usb to serial for Cisco, telneting programs, vmware workstation, etc? Do you think I would have the same functionality as a Windows machine on the field?
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Amazon Web Services
A company I do consulting with has recently been inquiring about using the AWS cloud to host all of the company's servers. I am wondering if anyone on here has used the AWS Cloud for hosting or their VM environments. If so, what has your experience been?
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Should I switch back to Linux? (gaming oriented question)
The following describes a first world problem (if you don't know what I'm talking about see First World Problems: Button, button, who has the button? for a list of examples): I've been using Linux for about 10 years and for the longest time I loved it. When I was in college I needed so many applications for school that…
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Screen dimming app
I had a look through the archives but couldn't find the thread. A while back last year I think, there was discussion about ways to adjust a monitor in order to decrease eye strain. I think Dynamik mentioned a free app that could be d/l'ed that adjusts the screen. Anyone remember what that was?
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Dell Poweredge T110
I am looking at buying a Dell Poweredge T110 and installing ESXI so I will have something I can lab with. My question is does any one here have any experience with this machine or can give me advice on how many VM machines I will be able to roughly run on it? I will be using it mostly to lab for my Microsoft exams for now.…
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The Sun has been hacked!!
LulzSec are on it again, sun.co.uk redirects to LulZsec's Twitter feed. I mean this is just amazing news. The guys are posting passwords/logons/mobile numbers. Damn these guys are good. On a side note, I wonder why/how Twitter let LulzSec have their own feed knowing what they do?
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SAMBA share
I can't remember how to do this but i recall reading about it a few weeks ago. The setting im looking for is to show only what the user has read access to.
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Meet the ‘Keyzer Soze’ of Global Phone-Tracking - Wired.com
Meet the ‘Keyzer Soze’ of Global Phone-Tracking | Danger Room | Wired.com
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Would I be able to get a second cox cable subscription at home?
I still live at home. Someone is always hogging the television downstairs. Would it be possible for me to have cox come out and install a wall jack in my room upstairs so that I have my own subscription that I pay for independently of my mothers's downstairs?
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Buying a small computer for my studies
I am looking at buying an Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop for my MCSA/MSCE studies but it has a maximum memory support for 4gig Ram. I need to know whether it will be able to run Windows 2003 Server, Exchange Server 2003 and maybe 5 VM machines at the same time. These are just for my studies so the setup will just be for me…
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Any Syslogger Recommendatons?
I'm trying to find something thats pretty versatile. Most of the stuff I've seen limits report output to like 25 users (Firewall Analyzer 7), RSA Envision too expensive. So anyone got any good recommendations for a syslog analyzer / correlation database that can manage a large set of users?
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Best Beginning Powershell Book
What book would you guy say to start with? I have a limited programming background so looking for that true beginner kind of book. Thanks in advance!
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Redesign of Webdav in DMZ
Not being an architect, I'm not really sure. I have a client who has WebDAV installed on a Svr2003 VM in a DMZ for its third party investors to transfer data to. Even though this server is behind a firewall I kinda think retaining all the data that gets dumped there isn't the safest practice. What's a better design that…
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Do you press any random enters/line breaks after logging into a device?
Title tells everything. Yes, I usually press 2 llinebreaks.
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Ticket Management suggestions
Hey guys do you have a suggestion on a ticket management system? I would prefer and in house server type vs subscription. I am looking for a ticket management system to maybe be in the form of a webpage to keep track of all our fix jobs and projects with a nice GUI interface. Any ideas? thanks
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Seriously, CRT monitors?
So I started a new job 3 months ago. Day 1 I was given a desktop and a crt monitor. Really? Looking around our department there is a mix of CRT's and LCD's. Throughout the rest of the company is all LCD's. So I was always used to using dual monitors, so I brought in a usb video card to use with a second CRT. Today one guy…
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just started my apprenticeship any tips on how to get ahead guys?
just started my apprenticeship any tips on how to get ahead guys?:D
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Create A Membership Form
Hello, I am looking to create a membership form for customers who will be interested in joining my side health and beauty business. I know all the details that I want to add on the form but I am not really sure what program or application to use to achieve this? Any ideas? Thanks :)
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simple question for previous wgu students
nv mind found out
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MS Virtual Server 2005?
Im just getting into the VM world and want to set up a little test environment. Last time I looked at VM there was MS Virtual PC, then Virtual Server 2005...it looks like those are gone/wont support Windows 7...my question is, is there a new application you can run vhd's on an existing machine like Virtual PC, or is that…
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IT Company
Has anyone have hear of this company Insight Global? Thanks
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Linux: How to change folder ownership
I'm testing Wordpress on a server and had difficulty uploading images in WP which I figured was due to permission. FTP uploads work fine. The hosting company emailed saying, "assign ownership as username:apache recursively". Using SSH, I logged in and tried different parameters, it didn't work. Any idea how can I do this?…
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WSUS 3.0 using 120GB of space?
Hi, I have a 2003 Server with WSUS 3.0 installed on it. As of right now, with just the OS and WSUS, it's taking up 120GB of space. This is outrageous. I Googled it, and found people were complaining when it was taking up 10-20GB. Are you kidding me??? 10-20GB of space and your complaining?! I'd be over joyed if I could get…
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To centralize or not in your infrastructure?
So I have started at a new job and I’m noticing some funny things about the way they set networks up. Now, I work for a small business that consults IT services for other small business. I’ve noticed that on our virtualization servers(hyper-v) and on our SAN’s (Equallogic), that the prevailing design is to not add those…
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bugtrap "igdumd32.dll" help please?
Hello, please help me..bout this bugtrap..ive always pop out this bug..even login and going to market place & use tele..im newbie in GY need some solution.. thanks.. RM>>can you pls transfer my char. to phoenix main area char. name"mugenXIII" thanks frozen text.JPG
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After the Wireshark Book?
I am almost done with the Wireshark book. For those of you that have read it, what was the next protocol analysis book you read? I have a few really good tcp/ip books coming my way (stevens and the no starch guide) but I was wondering if any one had any suggestions for reading on packet analysis after the Wireshark book…
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Setting up a no reply outlook email account
I need to setup a no-reply email account that some of users at our firm can use to send emails to clients. We currently use Outlook XP, Outlook 2003 and 2007 and they run on Microsoft Exchange server 2000. Will it be possible to give the users an option when sending an email when to use a no-reply email address and keep…
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Pentagon Discloses Cyber Breach
Pentagon Discloses Largest-Ever Cyber Theft - FoxNews.com Yeah that doesn't sound so good. I wonder how many times they have been hit and don't even know about?
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My Malware is better than yours...
This is a great read... How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing Malware in History | Threat Level| Wired.com If you don’t think malware is serious stuff… read on... http://www.eset.com/us/resources/white-papers/The_Evolution_of_TDL.pdf Virus/malware writers have a mission these days… it is not for fun.…
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Anti-Virus Pioneer Evgeny Kaspersky - 'I Fear the Net Will Soon Become a War Zone'
Anti-Virus Pioneer Evgeny Kaspersky: 'I Fear the Net Will Soon Become a War Zone' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
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Experiencing trouble with one of our vendors.
Vendor X has been dropping the ball bigtime lately. Wrong parts coming in all the time and missing parts when we actually need them. We ordered a fuser and a tray comes. Silly crap like that. I am a rookie when it comes to vendor management. My questions is how would you go about trying to find another vendor? We are…
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Ohio Information Security Forum Con and Derby Con
Anybody headed to oisf con or derby con? The former is on saturday and not that large. I am going to make it there for sure. I want to head to derby con as well. But we will see.
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stupid router question
On a Cisco router that I was configuring a serial interface to receive a dynamic IP address from an upstream router I have read that all I need to to is while in interface configuration mode use the command "ip address dhcp" but when I do I'm just getting an invalid input error: Router(config-if)#ip address dhcp…
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You should quit your job !
...but you probably won't! You should probably quit your job What do you guys think ?
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Pcmcia cisco smart memory reader?
I have so much PCMCIA memory and I would like to be able to check what files are on it. Is there a reader out there? I have done all sorts of Google searches and I just wanted to see if anyone had an idea of the correct one to purchase?
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Nyc it gurus
Any NYC IT Gurus around? Would be nice to know a few good contacts around the city to help each other out in emergency's :)
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Kerberos Auth Help Needed
Ok, I have a Kerberos issue, before I get intot he details let me explain this did work at one time. Within the past 3 weeks it has failed. We have an odd arangement. All employess work in the AM domain of parent.net. There is another forest/domain linked via trust to am.parent.net called ChildCompany.net. This is the IT…
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Samba permissions
I'm in the process of setting up a Ubuntu based samba server to replaces our current windows file server. I have everything properly configured including having the server authenticating with AD but im having trouble setting up permission on a folder to mimic our current windows setup. From a windows client I can surf to…
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Reviewing Windows Phone 7
I came across a fairly extensive review of WP7 today, in a most unlikely place: Penny-Arcade. It turns out that Mike Krahulik (Gabe) decided to switch from his iPhone to a Samsung Focus running WP7. Here's what he had to say about it:
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When u become network engineer??
Just wondering what are the qualification and certification required to be called an Network Engineer
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TOP 10 highest paying jobs
Infographic: Getting the Most from the Job Market I saw this at digg today.
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Background Check via Socialmedia/Web
New Service Adds Your Drunken Facebook Photos To Employer Background Checks, For Up To Seven Years - The Consumerist If you intend on responding in this thread, please DO NOT simply rehash all the same old ideas about things that are freely available on the web being fair game or that employers are already doing this sort…
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Anyone experience with ClearOS ? Horrible throughput :(
At the moment I am running ClearOS in a virtual machine. Here you can see the throughput using my external firewall as gateway (SonicWall)0% [................................... ] 10,861,432 2.41M/s eta 20m 6s Here using ClearOS as gateway 0% [................................... ] 4,021 2.53K/s With an estimate of over 3…
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Raid cards seen in vSphere
Even though RAID cards are on the HCL - it doesn't necessarily mean you can see the raid status in vSphere. Apart from LSI - does someone know any other makes which are supported by vSphere - so the status itself can be seen inside the client ? With now ESX deprecated, you don't really have many options as you cannot…
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LOL @ some ridiculously priced HDMI cables
Do a search on this particular brand HDMI cable on Amazon, "AudioQuest - Coffee 6.6' HDMI Cable", I wonder if anyone is actually stupid enough to pay up to $2k or more for a HDMI cable? I found some of the "reviews" to be quite entertaining. Just though I would post for laughs.
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Win 7 - Username
Windows 7, how do I make it, so it's remembers the username instead of password which I need to type at start up.
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Vulnerable windows 7
So it seems like metasploitable is the only major vulnerable windows installation. I was wondering if anyone has heard of any thing based off of windows 7 or windows server 2008 (r2).
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monitor displaying grey colors as blue
When I turned on my desktop today that uses an older 15" HP lcd monitor (that I got in 2006 that uses vga) I noticed that the background login image that is grey appeared blue (On boot up I kept getting the not optimum resolution message. I hooked my desktop to my 20" monitor using the vga port to rule out possible…
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Your favorite tech podcasts?
Anyone else listen to a lot of podcasts? what are your favorite ones relating to tech? I listen to a lot of the TWiT network of shows only TWiT, TNT, Windows Weekly that is about it
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migrate domain controller to standalone server
Hey, I know this is going to sound a bit backwards but i'd like to know if it's possible to migrate from an active directory environment to a standalone win2k3 server. I would like to preserve the permissions of active directory users for the data and have local users. There will be about 100 users. I currently have a…
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How many monitors do you use?
In the last year or so I have found myself using two monitors (was using a 19" tv but have recently purchased a 20" monitor that works better). Sometimes I feel like 2 monitors isn't enough for me especially in my voip class when I have several router consoles up and several pc remote access sessions that are running…
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Solaris 8 SSH slow to respond after sys-unconfig
So I've been trying to get this working again without success. I had to move my server to a different subnet. Did sys-unconfig and SSH takes forever to ask for a password! I've regenerated my keys but it didn't help :\ Most of the time (after a couple minutes) when it finally asks for the password it just disconnects. Any…
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What to do with a bunch of old servers?
So I just acquired 11 SuperMicro SuperServer 5013C-T's and have no idea what to do with them. They have 4GB's DDR, with 2.4Ghz CPU, dual 1GB Nic's and 2x 120GB Hard Drves. I want to add them to my lab but not sure yet what to do with them. As far as server OS's I am currently playing with Server 2008 R2. Any thoughts on…
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multiple default routes in linux
I have 4 NICs in a server running Ubuntu 11.04. It's sole purpose is dynamips. I'm seeing flaky behavior with routing (missing hops in traceroute, intermittent ping) and finally found the culprit: tyler@dynamipsBox:~$ route -nKernel IP routing tableDestination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0…
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Throw Me Some Names of Free UNIX OSes
I am currently working with a proprietary UNIX server at work, and I realize it's nothing compares to Linux distros that I use occassionally. I can't even go back to the previous commands that I typed with the UP arrow ( I even try CTRL and R), but the UNIX operating system is a completely different beast. So, I would like…
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Could one recommend a good backup soultion?
Does anyone know of good backup software to use for replication purposes? We have a server that we want to backup, but only one folder within the volume. This data has to be backed up to a remote server on the network, and preferably without having it compressed. Meaning if our server goes down we have a complete backup…
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Android Tethering to home WIFI network
Hi As title says I have an android phone on the 3 One Plan plus I also have 4 WIFI routers for my 6 PC's and 2 laptop's I did have broadband from good old Richard but sadly I cannot continue to line his pockets with stupid amounts of money Has anyone managed to teather there phone to a WIFI router, would connecting my…
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Peculiar terminal server issue
I'm scratching my head over this one, and I'd like to see if any of you have an idea what's going on. I've got a Windows Server 2008 (non-R2) server set up as a Terminal Services Gateway Server, and I've got it set up to allow access to a Windows Server 2003 32 bit terminal server. The terminal server has 4 GB of RAM on…
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Farewell Space Shuttle...we will miss ya
The last shuttle mission lifted off today....kinda bittersweet for me. I remember where I was for both disasters...coming home from second grade for Challenger and sitting in my office surfing the Internet for Columbia. I'll really miss the shuttle and I hope they can secure funding to develop an even better vehicle to go…