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hello every one what to you think makes a good technician?
hello every one what to you think makes a good technician? let me know ur thoughts.
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MS Event: Manage and DeployTake control of your critical infrastructure
Microsoft running an event on Windows 7 Deployment ans some other tools in New York and other cities on the east coast. Management and Deployment Firestarter ?Must Attend Event - ITProGuru Blog by Systems Management Expert Dan Stolts - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
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Amazon Cloud Drive
Free 5 GB of storage: https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore
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Syntax highlighter on blogger :/
hey all, trying to get syntax highlighter to work on my failing attempt of a blog. At present i have followed this link MLA Wire: Blogger Syntax Highlighting I now have the code coming up in a window though its rather large in text size On a few blogs ive seen it on, it also has option to print and take code to plain text…
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New Laptop
So I'm starting to consider getting a new laptop. I currently have a Dell Studio 1535 - it's about 3 years old. It's more or less still going strong, but the battery is dead (about $100 to replace) and the cd/dvd slot drive has been acting strange (a few months ago when I was going through the process of ripping all of my…
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Social Enginners Tool Kit Download
I am trying to download the social enginneers tool kit as I am ploughing through the CEH course through self study and are trying to use this tool in a safe environment / i.e. on my own accounts. Has anybody successfully downloaded it and used it for educationall purposes. The site for downloading the tool is Downloads |…
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New Member
Have been trying to get into the IT field for a couple of years now with no luck. Currently enrolled in WGU for a B.S in IT network design & management. I haven't applied for many tech jobs, mostly have applied at smaller companies near where I live and places like Best Buy (Geek Squad). I search through countless job…
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Thinking of a tablet to help my studies
Hi everyone, I wanted to get some opinions and see if anyone else is doing something similar. I've been thinking for a while now about getting some type of e-reader or tablet. I think it would help me study more. Reason being, I tend to read most of my study materials in the form of PDFs. It is quite tiring to sit at my…
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BASH scripting books
I'm looking for a good BASH scripting book and was wondering if someone here had a good that that they could recommend.
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window cannot access
Hi guys sorry for posting this I got a windows 2008 server with a problem. when trying to browse the shared folders on the machine itself in the run command if I was to run \\test1 for example (test1 being the name of the machine I can browse however if I run with a fully qualifed domain name \\test1.example.com ( i get an…
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HTTP Strict Transport Security
I just learned about this new web security mechanism while reading about the new features for Firefox 4. Some have described this as being a replacement for HTTPS, but it's actually more like an add-on or Plug-in. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security Firefox joins Chrome in…
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Lumosity
Does anyone use Lumosity? Did you do any courses, games, and assessments? Does it help with your studies?
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Record Labels claim they are owed 75 TRILLION in damages from limewire...
75,000,000,000,000. 5x the national debt. I wonder if they take IOUs? (thinking of Dumb and Dumber) Record Labels Claim Limewire Liable For $75 Trillion in Damages - HotHardware
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Magazines
I was wondering which tech magazines do you fine people subscribe to. Thanks
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THIRD World!!
Well i'm been an active member of this forum for some months now and the thing that i have observed is maximum people out here are from the USA or UK . I was wondering wither we have any asian population out here . Well myself being from India and pursuing my CCNA . I was hoping any of my mates from asia would like to help…
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Remote access to cash registers
I'm working with our Finance Team to access our SAM4s ER-5200M Cash Registers so that we can make changes to them remotly. These registers have a RS-232 port that I can connect to locally inorder to make changes. They sell the software package that does this SAM52-SAM52M Polling Software ? Gettechdirect.com but its for…
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Looking for Route planning software
I need help looking for a driving route planning software. We have several users that drive out to numerous different addresses daily, and I want to make it as efficient as it can be. I can create a list of addresses in any order, but I would like to import it to a program and let it dish out the order and/or routes. I…
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Tech Podcast Without the Fluff.. ?
Good morning all, I have recently started listening to Pod Cast again, mainly racing podcast. I am on a search to find a tech podcast that does not constantly talk about cell phones ( iphone/ipod/cell phone news/android) or sit around and just shoot the breeze about random junk and end user trends. I tried the TWIC…
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Most messed up company
Helloooo
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Untangle
Hey guys, The boss wants us to pull out our Cisco ASA 5505 out and toss in something with Unangle on it. Essentially somes of the sales team heard a pitch and love it. So they want us to start using it. I played with it a couple years ago and it was nice. But it used PC hardware, so it didn't interest me. But since now…
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"Contacting the Server for Information" ??
Hi Guys, Some users in my company get this message when just clicking through emails, or switching between folders in outlook 2007 or 2010. It happens randomly. The pc's are kind of old, but this just started happening around 2 weeks ago. Any help would be much appreciated.
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new topic ladies and gentelmen: Computer technologies and future of humanity
hello ladies and gentelmen What you think about technology jumps with speed of light, and we as humans are moving very slow. What future relationship between technology and us human. will be become a slaves or masters of technology? all feedback appreciated. thank again for your time.
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G.shdsl
Hi I have a Cisco 888w router with a G.SHDSL interface, I am wanting to use ADSL connection for this router. I have tried but Im guessing the pins are different for ADSL or the actual chip / curcuit in the board is different. Is it possible to somehow get an ADSL connection through the G.SHDSL interface? Im guessing not No…
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Bandwidth issues with NAT on Cisco 877W router
Hey gang, I'm currently using this router with my cable modem and routing from Vlan1 (inside) to Vlan2 (outside) since I can't use the ADSL port. I've noticed that I get a maximum of 1.7Mb/s throughput and curious if it is due to my config or the hardware. When I bypass the router, I get 10.98 Mb/s. Here is my config:…
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Duplex house needs Internet connection!
We will be moving out in two months. New home is a duplex one. Thats why, i need a wireless device that will meet and fit my needs. Inside that duplex apartment, radio signals should be propagated vertically involving two flat room/floor (up/down) in order for 2 computers to receive Internet connection. What would you…
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Anyone using Firefox 4 yet?
Playing with it tonight, and it does seem to be a lot faster than older versions.
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Server backup solutions?
hey guys. We currently use Evault(I386) but wow what a price tag do they put on this system. Do you know of any good backups software\systems for servers? has anyone had experience with Acronis? and their suppport? and price? storage craft solutions anyone have experience with these guys?
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Deployment 101
Hi guys how we all doing? I work for a small charity based in the UK I wont go into to much detail about the business apart from we deal and process donated computer equipment and refurbish it for reuse. I want to speed up the productivity of the place and am looking at the deployment side of things, currently we have no…
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Cisco 5505 150meg through
Hey guys, I understand the Cisco ASA 5505 has a 150meg throughput. The argument is does this count LAN to LAN traffic off the switch or just stuff crossing the firewall engine?
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Recommendation for Cisco Router
Hi everyone, With inevitable IPv6 switchover moving into high-gear we are interested in replacing our Sonicwall 4060 with something from Cisco. We need something that can provides IDS, Hybrid/Dual Stack IPv6/IPv4 support, up to 75 VPN users, VLANs, and multiple WAN interfaces. I plan on doing further research into whatever…
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Sticking a router in the middle of the LAN
Today, I found a user had brought a wireless router and connected to LAN. Could this be creating any network connectivity issues?
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Anti-static wrist straps worth it or not?
antistatic wrist straps worth it or not? let me know your thorts. :)
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Decision making
I just started my new job which is tier 1 help desk technician. I have been working there for about a month and still under training. I just got an email about a network engineer position, and they are looking for a CCNA, Security+ certified or be able to get those within 6 months. I told the recruiter that the ccna exp…
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Being signed up for random mailings and sites
So lately I've had someone signing me up for weird websites and also weird magazine subscriptions. I'm pretty sure I know who it is since I have no problems with people other than one person who possibly has some very serious problems in the mind. Any way I can protect myself from this sort of harassment? I can always just…
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AT&T Buys T-Mobile
AT&T to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom - Business - U.S. business - msnbc.com
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Anyone run computer repair business in MN?
Reason I'm asking is that I am looking for donation for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Twin Cities. They are looking for donations for their silent auction on April 30th. If you run a computer repair business or works for one that could donate a gift certificate or the like it'd be great. But besides tech we are looking…
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Running a program while idle and then another program when not idle
Hey guys, I've been running the folding at home application for sometime. (Folding@home - Main) If you aren't familiar, it is the largest distributed computer network out there and was set up to simulate protein folding and misfolding. The results could help understand and cure things like cancer, alzheimers, parkinsons…
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Cisco ASA Training
Hey guys, I setup Cisco 5505's somewhat often. And publish out servers here and there. But I am certainly no expert. I really think I need to round my skills out with them. I am not so much interested in getting any certs. I just want to up my skill level and general speed with them. I have the Cisco SNAF and SNAA video…
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Hard drive diagnostics
Gents, Was wondering if anyone could recommend some good hard drive diagnostics software. It needs to be something we can just boot from and support most, if not all, manufacturers. Something to check for bad sectors, S.M.A.R.T, etc. Also, it doesn't have to be free - willing to pay for something good and reliable.
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Looking for a good Syslog Parser/analyzer
So I'm trying to find a good syslog parser/analyser. What I'm trying to do is log messages from an ASA and I want to generate reports based on the messages over a time period. Like how many times a remote user logged in, what ACLs are applied etc. Our current ASA is logging about 150k messages a day right now, but I need…
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Recover files from a reimage laptop
So my coworker was being careless and reimage a laptop and forgot to copy several pst. What are the chance of recovering those files? What software do you guys recommend? Is it even worth it to try?
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For anyone following the nuclear situation in Japan...
You might enjoy this book: Amazon.com: We Almost Lost Detroit (9780425067000): John G. Fuller: Books I read this a long time ago, like in the 80's. It's a really interesting story about a nuclear event that happened in the US that no one really remembers. MS
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Any suggestions on capturing time & material duration of activities for a chargeback?
My report will end up in Excel, but I was wondering how you would capture the Time and Material duration for a chargeback. Some are single instances T&M, but some require initial troubleshooting, then once the problem is discovered, the activity stops until the FRU is received then the activity resumes. I believe our…
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Is there a || equivalent in PoSH?
If I was writing a batch script I could use || to kick off a second command, if the first command failed. Anyone know offhand, if there is an equivalent in PowerShell?
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Free software of the day really
Input Director - Software KVM to Control Multiple Computers Got a PC and a laptop next to it and use both "screens" using the same mouse / keyboard (even copy / paste works) .. awesome ...
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Getting an error when trying to access my inbox
When I was trying to access my email on one of my accounts this afternoon on Thunderbird I got" "server does not support RFC 5746, see CVE-2009-3555" From what I have read, it's a mail server security misconfiguration issue. Does anybody know how to override this in Thunderbird? I"m looking online right now on how to get…
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Enterprise Level Backup Solutions
I just started a new job and one of my responsibilities revolves around designing a new backup plan. We have some serious data and some tight windows to back the data up with. We currently do the following: We use Veeam to back up the virtual machines block level, around 2 TB. The weekly full backup to a 3TB USB 3.0 drive…
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Cisco Press --- Internet Routing Architecture
Is there a more modern equivalent to this book? It looks absolutely fascinating and I'm also wondering if anyone has read it. Amazon.com: Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition) (9781578702336): Sam Halabi: Books
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Items to consider when assessing a new network? (consultants, this is for you)
When going in to assess a potential client's network, what do you look at? Here's what I can think of off the top of my head: High-level Is there documentation? What is their workflow? Who/what provides email service? Who/what provides phone/internet service? What is the disaster recovery/backup procedure? Server room How…
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APC PDUs - telnet config
Anyone know if there is a way to configure the SMTP settings through telnet ? It seems to have the options to configure anything else BUT smtp :/
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Any good websites for templates for creating processes?
I'm expected to create some processes and I was wondering what you all use in order to achieve this? Do you use a template or just create a word document. Utilize MS Visio or some modeling tool to show your flow chart? What's your idea of processes? High level overview from start to finish. The reason why you would do it…
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Out-of-band management
Was curious what out-of-band management solutions people have seen in networks. Also if you can give me some details about them that would be great.
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Is $300 a good price for a HP XW6400 Quad-Core, 2x Dual Core Xeon 3.0GHz, 4GB, 160GB
I am thinking of buying a workstation for hyper-v server. Is a HP XW6400 worth 300 (specs in the title)?
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Top 10 IT Positions by Prestige
10 IT positions ranked by prestige | TechRepublic
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Gym - Healthy Heart and Mind
Going to start a gym regiment today followed by a complete change in diet as well. Wish me luck, need to lose at least 100lbs.
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NLB and session expiration when mobile devices changes IP address.
Could you help me sort following problem please? We have system which is based on two IISes 7.0 and Windows 2008 servers working in NLB cluster. Unfortunately recently we started having some problems with users which log in using mobile devices like phones. System works well when user uses standard broadband. However on…
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Malware in Android Market highlights Google's vulnerability - ArsTechnica
Malware in Android Market highlights Google's vulnerability
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Is it okay to use wikipedia as supplement for some study?
Take AES, I wanted to know a little more about AES for security+. Is it okay to rely on the wikipedia article to be accurate or have people found things downright wrong in relation to "technical" topics?
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Technet subscription questions
Does anyone know if there are any student discount codes for technet right now? If I get a technet subscription can I claim it as a deduction on my taxes?
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Outlook issue
Is anyone familiar with an outlook issue where users with permission to view a shared calendar cant access it? We've had this issue since before I came on board and google and anyone else hasnt been able to diagnose the issue successfully. The clients are using Office 2007, not sure about the exchange server. Some users…
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USB cable test equipment
Anyone know a good brand of meter/test equipment for testing USB cable continuity, and test for impedance and capacitance? I was looking on the Fluke site, and couldn't find anything.
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Liar liar Time Warner Cable on fire!
Today my Internet connection went out for half an hour, I called someone up on the other side of the county who also has TWC for their ISP and their Internet connection was down as well. I then called up TWC, they denied the fact that any such outage occurred and even tried to schedule a day to have someone sent to my…
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W32.Stuxnet Dossier - Symantec
Very interesting read! This has been out for a while but it was just brought to my attention today: W32.Stuxnet Dossier | Symantec Connect
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Any issues installing IOS 4.3?
Anyone run into problems yet? I have downloaded it for my Ipod Touch 3G, and it seems like it is installing, but I-Tunes says otherwise. Says I am up to date on 4.2. Anyone offer any suggestions?
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How much should I ask for this used PC?
Selling this and was wondering how much to ask. My friend offered $70. I think it's a little too low. It's a Compaq SR5505F desktop tower with: CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ (Dual Core @ 2.2 GHz) RAM: 3 GB DDR2-800 (2 GB + 1 GB) HDD: Seagate 160 GB Optical: DVD burner with Lightscribe OS: Windows 7 No keyboard, mouse, or…
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NTFS file permissions
Guys, I have a question maybe one of you guys can help me out with. We have a customer where they scan documents and it goes into a "scans" folder inside their server. Now they use a software called XnView to view the scanned images in the tree of fodlers on the server. Everyone should and does have access to the "scans"…
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Using tablets at work
Anyone use tablets at work? I'm trying to fight of the need to buy the pretty shiny gadgets, but if they are useful I would take the plunge. I'm working with servers and end-users.
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DDR2 fully buffered DIMMs
Can I mix different brand of DIMMs when installing FB DIMMs? Or even different batches of modules but same brand? I suspect as long as the modules are of same type they should work. My workstation supports only a few configurations of PC2-5300/DDR2-667 FB DIMMs: 4x 1Gb, 4x 2Gb, 4x 4GB only. I haven't found any answer…
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capturing email with Wireshark
I got bored today so I played around with Wireshark to see if I could capture some of my own emails. I opened up my email client and sent myself an email. I looked on Wireshark and it apparently did capture it, but its not in plaintext form (tried searching for words that I placed in my test email with no results). The TCP…
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IT Professional with ADHD
Just curious to find who are in this profession and have the condition. The Future of Adult ADHD
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Rack renting for Cisco studies
I am just wondering, how do I rent a rack? Do I have to be at the renting site, or I can just stay at my home and do my labbing through the Internet? I am preparing my home lab for my CCNP R&S and I am about to buy a 3550 switch this week. I heard that for CCIE it requires at least 3560 switch. I looked on ebay's 3560 list…
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How do you guys stay current.
With all the advances in technology, how do you guys stay current with whats going on with technology? Websites, magazines, or what have you would be appreciated.
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Got two iBricks
Since I got a non-3G iPad I was keen to try the new iOS 4.3 (wireless hotspot).. both, iPad and iPhone 4 are now in a recovery loop .. meh .. I obviously have backups (and even stored them offsite), but it is still annoying ...
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Fun use for cluster?
I have an bunch of old computers and I was thinking of clustering them together for fun. Can anyone think of any sort of good reason to do this, or is "fun" really all that there is? I can't think of any good use for a large amount of computation power.
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Help with University of Liverpool Online
Hi guys, I'm having thoughts of starting my masters online some time in July and I made inquiries about University of Liverpool online. Please I'd like anyone who has had experience with them to help me out, are they worth the pain?
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remote access APC for my rack
hey guys. watched jeromy Ciora on cbtnuggets and he suggested ( great idea) to have an APC for my rack. I do want to remote turn it on when I want to practice on it say at lunch? and turn it off when done. so what do you guys recommend to me as a solid technology I have seen APc stuff but is this stuff solid? my experience…
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Windows 8 Leaks...
Neowin.net - Windows 8 Live ID login image leaks and other features surface Some interesting stuff... I'm very interested in the repair options.
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T1 Line versus a cable modem
My T1 line at work is often being throttled to death by our ISP, in an effort to get us to upgrade, and in response to peak hour. If anyone at the business is downloading a file it slows to a crawl. Even a text-based website won't load. My home cable connection has 10 times the bandwidth of the T1 at most, and in peak…
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MS Partners - what do you think of the CSAT requirement?
Personally, I think it is a waste of time. Obviously you are going to ask only your clients with whom you have a good relationship with (hopefully that applies to your whole client base .) The results they get back are skewed and not accurate. I dislike that we have to put upon our clients to get them to take the survey in…
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Football !!
Hey which league Team have you been supporing all your life till now ? :) Btw i'm a Die hard Manu , Arsenal and Barca fan :D Manu - Coz they are the reason i started watching football for first time [ Miss D.beckham now ] Aresnal - Still remember that unbeaten season of epl , when Henry , viera , pires ,ljunberg used to…
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Free Ebooks from MS
Ebooks: List of our free books - Microsoft Press - Site Home - MSDN Blogs Just wanted to make sure this gets posted. Some good books in the list.
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flow analyzer best?
hey guys what do you recommend for flow analyzer on networks, we have like 20 network devices and was wondering what do you recommend for a good network bandwidth protocol analyzer andy cheap free ones or decent priced. what is your experience? thanks
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Cisco Live 2011!
It seems I keep getting announcements for this to my inbox daily so I am curious... how many of the TE members may be attending this event in Vegas this year?
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Skeletek C16U Rack
Hey guys, Was just curious if anyone has had any experience with the Skeletek racks ? I'm thinking of purchasing this one Skeletek C16U /thanks in advance
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Sonicwall Antispam / Antivirus + Exchange 2010
Anyone set this up yet ? Know Exchange obviously, but not so sure about the Sonicwall - does this act as a smarthost ?
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Computer Science for a (wannabe) infosec pro
Hello: So I have decided I want to do a CS degree at some point (probably right after my AAS is done). Do any of you have a suggested reading list (of books you have read personally) for an introduction to computer science topics?
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MAC Address - What is really means....
http://i.imgur.com/1pKaM.png Real or not, it is really funny.
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MSI File to Push Out Java?
MSI File to Push Out Java? any one know a quick and easy way that we can make an MSI file for Java so we get it deployed onto our network quickly any ideas?
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Quick secure channel reset question
Folks, quick question. Does resetting the secure channel between a 2003 Standard Edition member server and a DC running 2003 R2 restart the member server at all. I'm quite sure it doesnt, can someone please confirm this for me. I have Googled around, cant find a link to confirm this. TIA!
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What tool(s)/utility(s) do you use for file organization?
I have accumulated several digital junk and files spread across many computers and hard drives. I would like to find a tool or utility, preferably free, to find, sort, organize these. Any of you organized freaks (or others) care to share the names or links to such utilities?
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Google Apps
Hey guys, It was declared today we were going to start selling google apps. I was tasked with training a service desk (heald level graduates) of 12 people. And a group of system admins, roughly 6-7. Any thoughts recommendations?
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Androids (the robot not the phone), they are coming!
Latest Geminoid Is Incredibly Realistic - IEEE Spectrum Flipping amazing and a little frightening.
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Can someone explain why Thunderbird is re-downloading my entire inbox!?!
I just started up Mozilla Thunderbird and it decided to re-download all email messages from all of my email accounts. Any ideas? The only thing I can think of is some sort of bug with the latest version of Thunderbird that was recently released.
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Music player program of choice?
I've been using Winamp for something like 10 years now. I think it's time I made the life changing move to another program. What do you guys use?
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Glue removal?
I dont know how many times I have told end users NOT to tape their business cards to their laptops! Each time they come in for updates (usually during a mass in person meeting), I am constantly removing the cards, and it leaves a terrible scotch tape residue. Anyone know of a good product to clean this off that wont mar or…
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The greatest accomplishment of my life
My wife and I welcomed our first child, a little girl named Meghan Bernadette into our lives Sunday evening at 6:02. She's about a month early, and she's a bit small at 4lbs 15 oz, but to me, she's perfect. My wife was in the hospital for a full 2 weeks prior when he water was breached and began to leak. She was discharged…
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Ethernet Extentions for Wiring Closet
Hi, Does any one know where I can find short Male / Female modular ethernet cables? We have Hydra cables running from the server room to the wire closet where the patch panels are. We have had to move some of the cabling aroung, and some of the wire are a bit too short (6" - 1'). We have used "home-made" cables using patch…
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SSL on zen web hosting
I am trying to find out if I can get secure HTTPS working on my hosting. I know I can purchase a certificate of ZEN to do it. But I am not concerned with the authentication, it is for me to insure data send to and from there server to my PC is encrypted, not for e commerce or the general public to use. Does any one know…
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Want to learn Linux
After 10+ years working with Windows I think it's time to learn some variant of Linux. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to approach this for someone who ? My goal is not to get certified or anything like that. Although thinking about it pursuing a cert may be a good way to really learn it. I am interested in knowing…
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Dam pain of a virus!!!!
Hi I have been given an ACER ASPIRE ONE ZG5 which has one hell of a virus, logging in as user or admin account goes straight to a screen called "WindowsSafemode" has the safemode displayed in each corner, this link below describes the problem and also further down gives the solution, but....... Windows Safe Mode Virus -…