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Question about WD greendrive (EARS) formatting
When formatting a WD green drive (EARS) in Windows 7, will it automatically use the correct the 4k sector size, or do I need to manually set it?
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Unmountable Boot Volume error.
This morning i went to open my laptop and the power cord came out and shut it off. So i plugged everything in and rebooted and i get a message saying "Unmountable Boot Volume" i called geek squad and they says my hard drive failed and its $199 for repair. Ive tried reinstalling Windows 7 and booting in Safe mode but no…
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Windows Home Server
Not sure how many people here know of or use Windows Home Server, but if you do Microsoft recently announced they are pulling the Drive Extender technology from the next beta of "Vail". Just today HP, one of the first hardware manufacturers of Home Server hardware, announced they are no longer making or selling their Media…
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Off topic question for those that are knowledgeable about TPMS
My mom is looking at getting a certified used 2009 Honda Accord LX. She would like to have a tire pressure monitor system. Rather than getting ripped off from having the dealership install one, I'm looking at a DIY kit I found a retrofit kit on Amazon for $140:Amazon.com: Orange Electronic P409S Retrofit Tire Pressure…
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WiFi and WiMAX
Hey folks, I need to study up on some Wifi and WiMax stuff. Have any resources on the net that I could look at? Thanks
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Live CD Malware / Spyware removal
Hi there can anyone point me in the direction of a decent live cd tool which will allow me to run various clean up / removal tools on a Windows Partition without actually booting into Windows, I have a machine that is currently clogged up and everytime I log in I am being greeted with your computer is infected blah blah…
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Android Phone Question
Anyone know of software that allows you to remote into an Android phone? I know there is a VNC program, but it requires root. We have a ton of customers moving to the Android platform and they aren't computer savvy enough to get email setup on the device. It would save lives to be able to remote into the device and setup…
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RSA Conference 2011
Is anybody from TE going to the conference in February? I came across this and hadn't planned on attending until I saw it was worth 25 CPE's for ISC2. Then found that I can attend as a academic for $695 as opposed to $2100. Only downside is I have to show proof I'm taking 12 credits next semester to qualify even though I…
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Wikileaks down
Wikileaks is getting pwned, again. WikiLeaks DOWN: Website Goes Offline Again
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Hp DL380 G7s
Anyone got a dl380 g7 at the moment with high memory configuration? I am setting up Vmware ESXi on two boxes, but the pre HP splash screen boot is stupidly slow (annoyingly slow). Firmware is all up to date, I even did a BIOS update that wasn't on the 9.20 firmware DVD. Maybe my expectations are too high. Each server does…
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AMU, Sayonara. Hello, UMUC.
Okay, so... I was (and am still for a few more weeks) attending AMU, but I have found that their tech classes are too out of date for my tastes. That, combined with my scoring approval for overseas tuition rates at UMUC, has given me the opportunity to pursue a degree at what had been my first choice of online colleges.…
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Script Repository Software
Does anyone know of a good script repository software? I joined a company that actually has had a lot of good engineers so there are hundreds of scripts scattered around and I would love to be able to sort them. PowerGUI doesn't seem to be what I want as they deal with automatically running scripts by clicking on them. If…
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Want to play in the cloud?
AWS Free Usage Tier
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Question for Mac users
I have never use Mac. I have been using Windows computer since I my first PC. I am planning to get a Macbook pro 15" MC371LL/A. I am also planning to keep my Windows software/games if possible. Therefore, I did some Googling and found some vague answers. I found this thing called Crossover. It says that I don't have to run…
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Windows Live - Officially too bloated for me
Ok, first of all it's become a several hundred meg download and now has like 8 components in it to use these online services that you probably dont need. Second, the MSN Messenger takes up the entire screen by default - in the latest version. Third, the news it gives you is now total crap (like most news) - Miley Cyrus…
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SWF editors
Hi guys, I have been using CAMSTUDIO to capture my screen to make training vidoes. What I would like is a way to then edit these SWF videos and add captions and controls. I am thinking some thing like this http://www.blindhog.net/tutorials/gns3.htm where it pauses for a click and brings up captions as it plays. I don't…
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LISP programmer wins Google AI contest
Read More.... Hungarian Lisp developer walks away with Google AI contest | ZDNet
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WSJ - Race Is On to 'Fingerprint' Phones, PCs
Race Is On to 'Fingerprint' Phones, PCs - WSJ.com
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Ten most valuable certifications for IT pros at ZDNet UK
I don't know about the UK but for the US this list seems like fud: Ten most valuable certifications for IT pros | Jobs | ZDNet UK
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Microsoft Certified Master Changes
It looks like there have been some changes to the MCM program. You guys have any information on this? I did not see anything on Born-to-Learn. But I did not do a real search... Links I have seen: New Path to Microsoft Certified Master: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Microsoft SQL Server Certification l Database Administrator…
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Any Technical Authors?
I was wondering if there are any technical authors here on TE that have published works? I may (big on the may at this point) be on this route myself and am looking for any information that might be worth sharing with a complete newbie. This is not really something that I have ever considered but an opportunity has arisen…
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10000 Page Challenge 2010 Ending
Tomorrow starts the last month of the year! How did every fair this year in the challenge? Personally I only hit about 8000 pages this year...hoping to do better next yr.
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Backup Exec script
Ok so we have a script the runs and does a restore. The script has a static date that we have to change everyday (yuck). I have been trying to find a way to make it point to the system date. It needs to start on the current system date and end on the next date. Here is part of the script:…
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noob ipv6 question
If I do ping -6 ipv6.google.com I get a response from 2001:4860:8001::93 A traceroute also resolves to this address after 8 hops. I do not have an ipv6 connection out to the internet (only ipv4). How on earth is this possible? Is windows 7 doing some kind of behind the scene automagical stuff? Please forgive my ignorance.…
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cfexchange and Exchange 2010
Is this an ongoing bug in Coldfusion or is there a solution out there somewhere to get this to work ?
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Remote site backup
I've been running into this problem a lot lately, and I can't seem to find a good option... I have two sites. One is HQ, one is Remote. Remote has data on a server that only they use. HQ has no need to access it. HQ has the backup system, while Remote has nothing. I need to backup the data to HQ from Remote on a regular…
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Printer Power Cord
I have just moved to Canada and i am in need of a power cord for an Epsom CX8400 Printer, can anyone recommend where i can buy one?? Much Appreciated.
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Server2008R2 on vSphere - what a difference
I noticed that the console connection is extremely slow on Server 2008R2 guests The easy fix Increase Video Ram from 8 to 32MB and install the video driver. The latter is a bit confusing - confusing because you'd think it installs them automatically during the Tools install .. but no no .. it leaves it on default VGA…
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Anyone get any new toys on Black Friday?
Didnt get out early, but did manage to snag a new laptop. Best of all, is the WiMax connection in it. I got the cheapest speed that Clear offered, and still getting better than published results. Granted, not a whole lot of people using their 4G service here, but it is still quicker than my dsl connection. Speedtest.net…
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Powershell script will not work. Any suggestions?
This is the error message I receive... Error: SELECT clause: Semantic Error: 1st argument of function REPLACE_CHR must be a STRING Invoke-Item : Cannot find path 'C:\chart_testpc.gif' because it does not exist. At C:\chart-driveSpace.V2.ps1:44 char:12 + Invoke-Item <<<< .\"chart_"$serverName".gif" + CategoryInfo :…
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Bleach and Naruto
Ok the new ones are up. OMG!!! EPIC-Ness. Just look at this page Bleach 395 page 16-17 | One Manga Pretty freaking sweet. Check out this naruto page http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/486/12/
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printed documentation
Anyone print out documentation or other PDFs to use as study material? Where do you get them printed? I find it to hard to read from the computer for long periods of study time especially late at night. I would print out Citrix docs on our copier and give them to our secretary to bind and cover, but will not have that…
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Any recommendations for a rootkit scanner?
Recently this evening I got a lovely rootkit warning from Avast dealing with ipnathlp.dll. I think it may be a false positive but just to be sure I'm doing a full hdd scan. Are there any good free rootkit scanning tools out there that anybody can recommend?
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I think this is a neat idea!
...maybe someone has already thought of it. Windows 7 has a "HOMEGROUP" for home networks. It's meant to be simple and easy, but I find it to be a pain in the butt at times getting certain kinds of functionality going (like setting up a share for backups). But anyways on to the brainstorm - a single sign on solution for…
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Fedora Scholarship Program
Source: Scholarship - FedoraProject
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Hard drive striping
Hi Has anyone ever used 2 X 1 TB striped for there OS How does that compare to a SSD My rig has a 300Gig SATA for the OS and 2 x 1 TB for storage and was thinking about striping the TB's but only if there is a big enough difference in performance Any help would be great
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E-mail Hosting
I don't trust free web-based e-mail solutions that parse my sh!t for keywords and then display targeted advertisements all over my inbox. Screw you gmail. I'm toying with the idea of forking over a couple bucks a month for a dedicated e-mail hosting service. Not too sure what I should be looking for though. It's just for…
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Happy Thanksgiving to All!
Just wanted to wish all my fellow Americans and their families (wherever they may be) a safe and happy Thanksgiving. I'll even extend that to the rest of the TE community who may not celebrate Thanksgiving. Be safe, have fun, and eat the heck out of that turkey! LOL. We're about to make the trek into Queens in a bit and I…
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Is the interweb down?
BBC News - Should Obama's 'internet kill switch' power be curbed? Well how ever we always joke about people who insist the whole internet is down when they cant access QVC shopping website etc. But wow, what a situation to be presented.
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Security Analyst: ASP.NET
Here is a question for the security analyst of TE. Do any of you actually support ASP.NET (or any web code)? We had an issue today (that we spent the entire day on) that ended up being a code issue. This isn't the first time that it has happen. I think the problem is that the admin group (Another guy and I) speak one…
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Logitech speakers
Hi Had a rubbish day made an easy mistake and it cost me £40 to replace my 5.1 Logitech X-530 speakers The front right speaker connects to the bass unit using a D-Sub connection which is only 1.5 Metres or so, not ideal so I connected it to an extension cable so I could have the bass unit a couple more metres away from…
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Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack
Anyknow know a good book or training that coveres MDOP? Also! Anyone actually use it? Worth it?
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F5 GSLB query
Hi not sure where to post this but hope some one can explain With GSLB the BIG-IP recived a dns request and returns the IP address of the server which the client will connect to. however say I have a few serperate domain names www.test.com aa.test.com dd.test.com ftp.test.com However I only want www.test.com to be…
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A+ = vip
Here is a laugh: YouTube - Your passport to a new career - why certify in CompTIA
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Red Hat...
Can anyone recommend a good book for Red Hat, Enterprise.
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PowerShell book
I have decided to learn Powershell little by little while I studying 70-640. The only reason why I decided to learn it is because I might use it in the future, and the command prompt is always more stable than GUI anyways. Now, the problem is I know nothing about scripting. I can't write or read a script. Is there a book…
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Web Streaming Media Server
So I'm not a web guy, but I'm stuck with putting these videos online. They want something like youtube -- really simple. A play button, fast forwards, etc. So I've been trying to find something to do this with flash. I can convert the videos to flash, but I can't figure out how to embed these effectively in a web page with…
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TFTP Server
Hey guys, I need a quasi permante TFTP server for a client. There is some elbow room their ESX server. I was just going to toss Ubuntu Server x32 bit edition on there and configure it for TFTP etc. But I imagine there are distros that use even less in ram. Thoughts? Input? It needs to install, and sit there for 6 months.
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Printer Issue
Definitely off the beaten path, but a lot of knowledge on this forum. I have a user who can print offline but not from the network. Job spools, queues, and then disappears. Printer says starting to print but nothing happens. Just curious if anyone might know why. :
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New Monitor
I'm considering getting myself a new monitor for Christmas. My current fp (Viewsonic I bought back in 2002) is fine, but I'm ready to go to something a bit bigger/wider. Currently I have a 17" standard ratio. I've been eyeing some of Dell's monitors. As much as I'd like to get one of the professional or Ultrasharp series,…
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Microsoft AD Topology Diagrammer
Bl8ckr0uter and I were having a conversation on AD, and he asked me an easy way to get some info on AD. I remembered at one time I had used a tool from Microsoft to map out the domain - Microsoft AD Topology Diagrammer. You have to have Visio installed to use it, but the tool will pretty much lay out your AD/OU…
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Anyone using WiMax?
There's some deals this week on laptops with built-in Wimax, and of course discount if you sign up for the service (2 yr contract). Just wondering how it performs in the field, if anyone has it for work or home.
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Metasploit question
For my security class, one of my assignments was working with Metasploit. I decided to mess around with it more and tried several IE exploit attacks but they didn't work (got to the point where the buffer overflow attack was sent to a Vista VM but was not able to get a console). If I'm understanding this correctly, most…
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The Mac Tax
I just wrapped up the researching and the purchasing of two new laptops. During the course of research, I considered Apple products and I began to wonder... is the "Mac Tax" a real thing, or is it one of those technology myths? I just wrapped up my (admittedly cursory) investigation... when I'm done compiling the data and…
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Security clearance question
I ran across a job ad that states "Must be US Citizens able to obtain FULL Background Investigation (FBI) clearance" It didn't state secret or Top secret, does anyone know what this might be or what would be involved?
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Rack-mounted equipment in a Humvee
Anyone know of any companies that make computer rack mount systems for military Humvees? I'd sure like to get some opinions from TE's military membership as to the brands to consider and to avoid.
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Readyboost
Hi Just wacked an OCZ 4Gig PD into my lappy on readyboost, cant see any difference tbh is it only the lower memory laptops that need it cos i already have 2 gig memory on my laptop
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WSUS Offline Updates
TE, I'm setting up a WSUS in my environment to update a ton of clients. The problem is we are on a private LAN with no access to the internet. What I would like to do is download the updates on a machine connected to the internet, burn the updates to disc and place the updates in the WSUS Content Directory and make them…
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Samba print server
Does anyone have or know of a good guide or site on setting op a samba print server for a openSUSE 11.3?
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Any scripts "like that" out there ?
.. I mean .NET / CF / PHP etc. I am looking for a similar "check list system" like this : >> Click << Obviously not Exchang related - but I like the fact that you choose a topic and then you will be presented with a checklist (ignoring the first page with those radio buttons)
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Christmas Budget
What is your families or your own Christmas budget? I want to spend 300 total for about 9 people which doesn't include the girlfriend. I'm a Bah-Humbug. My girlfriend looooves Christmas and wants to spend 700/9 people. She would spend thousands if she could. What do you all try to limit yourself to?
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Dameware and Windows 7 Professional
Hello, We have recently started deploying new Windows 7 Professional 32-bit notebooks to our field staff. We have always used Dameware to access field PC's and in-house PC's running Win7 / XP Pro. The field notebooks are tested with Dameware in-house before being given to the user. We are unable to use Dameware on the…
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Real World Secuirty Mitigation
Hi, I'm studying my CCNA secuirty (Exam on Monday) and I wondered if some of the things I have learned to mitigate security threats/Vulnerabliltes are actually used in real environments. I can see the benefits of them but I'm not sure if the actual overhead warrants implementing them. Here are a few that I think are good…
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SSD Advice
I am eventually some day in the next year or so going to *shudder* build a new PC. I have not built my own in a number of years, the last time I did it was a single core Athlon something or other and SATA drives were coming on the market. Currently I have a Dell XPS 420 running Windows 7 64 bit. It has dual core Intel…
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Motivational Video: NFL coaches
I love motivational videos. It always gets my blood pumping. I have such a high vision for myself; this kind of thing makes me hungry for success even more. Enjoy! YouTube - NFL "All Coaches" Remix - Victor 1 Get Coached DVD by PH Media
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Any Powershell Gurus out here ?
I am a bloody noob so hopefull someone can help me out here :) I found the following code $op_file = Read-Host "What food do you like?"Write-Host "$op_file is awesome [IMG]https://us.v-cdn.net/6030959/uploads/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif[/IMG]" Which basically looks like that Now I am using the following bits to add an…
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Potentially handy storage device
The iodd 2501 Portable Virtual ROM is a USB/eSATA HD box that also enumerates as an optical drive. You can select an ISO from the built in display and then that appears on the virtual optical drive. The box doesn't come with a drive and you need to supply your own 2.5" SATA drive but its pretty cheap. If your computer…
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Track Terminal Service connections?
Running server 2003 standard.. We have users that Remote desktop into a windows 2003 server daily. I am hoping for some way to tell how long their sessions are active. I can use Event Viewer to track logon's but we need to be able to tell how long a user was connected. Any help? Thanks.
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Happy Toilet Day!
Layer 8: World Toilet Day spotlights the throne | Network World
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Migrating Exchange Mailboxes to a New Service
I have a fairly specific question that I think that Claymore may know the answer too. I am going to be migrating an old Exchange 2003 server up to my hosted Exchange 2010 server in our data center. When we do this, emails from that were sent from internal recipients prior to the move, will bounce back if they are responded…
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Imaging/OS deployment solutions for business
Hi Everyone, So we've been using Ghost until now and are starting to look into other solutions for OS deployment. We're 100% Windows shop with most PCs running Windows 7 and Windows XP (soon to be Windows 7) on an AD domain. The issue, though, is that System Admin departments is separate from Desktop Support Department (as…
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Processors
I am looking to buy a new laptop, hoing to get lucky with a good black friday deal. Anyway, my current laptop has a single core Athlon 64 Proc @ 1.6Ghz, and it takes forever to boot. Anyway, I am looking at getting a new laptop with at least 2 Ghz dual core and 4 GB of RAM under $500. I found a few so far, but today I saw…
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Thoughts on OSX in the enterprise?
I am still mostly on the edge about getting an OSX box. It seems like I see more technical people starting to use them but enterprise deployments are still windows shops mostly. I know some companies are letting their employees use mac's, but are any medium or large companies using them for large scale deployments to the…
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website hosting and domain name registration
Anyone have any good recommendations for web hosting and domain registration? I am trying to help a friend get a small business going, and they want to do something inexpensive. They would like to have webmail access to start as well. Suggestions?
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helpdesk sales call
YouTube - xtranormal HelpDesk - Annoying Sales Call "Like an autistic 4th grader trying to talk to Stephen Hawking about physics"
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Netbook: Worth It?
Hey everyone, My wife has been hounding me for what I want for Christmas, and I just cannot think of anything I need that I would possssibly use other than a netbook. I already have a standard laptop that I use, but thats still not the easiest thing to carry around. I do not care for the iPads, for I still want serial…
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File transfer speed
Hi I am copying some large files from my main PC to my laptop and I am only getting 11 Mb a second I am connected into a 100 meg wireless router which my PC is also connected on the CAT5 that connects my laptop to the switch it says E256123 AWM 2835 60C 30.V VW-1 24AWG/4P UTP TIA/EIA 568-B LANTEK I have no idea what that…
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Background Intelligent Transfer Service - Vista Download Issue
Hey All, Im going to throw an odd one out here in the off chance someone else has seen, dealt with and HOPEFULLY resolved. Quick run down, I work in IT but do jobs on the side. A friend has given me there laptop and complained that when she uses her wireless card it absolutely eats the credit up. I tested the laptop and…
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iPhone not compatible with IMAP using TLS ?
I am wondering if the iPhone is actually compatible using secure logon with TLS requirement. Basically my Exchange server (using a valid SAN certificate) is configured to allow only TLS connections when using IMAP (x.509 certificate name is valid via the certificate) but the iPhone seems to be the only device not being…
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Linksys router to console port
I just had a funny if not crazy thought and figured I would post up a question. Is it possible to connect a store bought Linksys router to a Cisco router or switch console port. The thought occurred to me to take a spare wireless Linksys router I have here and see if I could hook it up to give me a wireless connection to…
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Advice on external HDD
I'm planning to get an external USB HDD for use with my clients. Mostly for use backing up their stuff if I have to do a reimage. Nothing big and actually I was looking at Newegg.com - iomega eGo 320GB USB 2.0 Midnight Blue Portable Hard Drive with Protection Suite 34892 . I like the looks and hear they're pretty good for…
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Vista Product Key
Hi guys does anyone know how to find out the product key of a Windows Vista machine. Is there a product similar to RockXP many thanks Ally
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AVI (DIVX) to DVD
Hi, I want to burn some movies that I have on my laptop which are in the format of AVI, I use DIVX player to watch them. I now want to burn them on to a DVD-R disc so I am able to watch them on my home DVD player. Does anyone know of a Free Software that will allow me to acheive this? Are there any other additional steps I…
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Anyone using Adobe X yet?
I saw that Adobe has released their latest version, which sandboxes the operation. After downloading and installing, I found out that it isn't quite compatible with encrypted PDF files. It says no digital ID is installed. Well, thats funny, they show up as being carried over from version 9. I uninstalled and reinstalled…
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new computer case?
im looking to get a new system put together, however i do have kids that like to push buttons so i saw this and thought id share Imageshack - wallcomputer.jpg
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Today Is National UnFriend Day: Time to Pull the Trigger
I think this a great idea. :) Today Is National UnFriend Day: Time to Pull the Trigger
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Sonicwall Certs
Has anyone done a Sonicwall certification?
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Question on MACs
I am a diehard PC guy, never used or even thought about using a MAC in my life... Well I am currently deployed and my wife knows absolutely nothing about computers. Recently both our Dell laptop and Dell desktop have both crashed. From troubleshooting with her over the phone, I have determined it is the motherboard ont he…
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Decompile .net DLL
Hey so does anybody do this (or decompiling any DLL) on any regular basis? What do you guys use?
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Asp.net
Since there have been a couple of post on this, I figured I'd follow up with a general question regarding ASP. How should one go about learning it? I guess my confusion arises from the fact the it appears that you need to know Visual Basic or C# before learning ASP. So I guess I am trying to start from a good foundation so…
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Linux/Squid Issue
I been working on this for a few weeks now, googling and sifting through a couple of Squid books I found on Safari books online. So this is really my last stop before reverting back to ISA Server so I sure hope someone can help me out. I have a small satellite office which has a point-to-point T1 and a DSL line. The…
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wSUS on DC?
Hey guys, Ever run into any trouble placing wSUS on a DC? Any reason why I wouldn't want to do this?
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Free ebook from Microsoft
I am not sure if you guys have seen it already but will post it anyways. Hope it helps some for their upcoming certs. PS: I signed up for MCP flash emails and they usually include these "free books" in there every other email.Microsoft SQL Server Training Programs | SQL Server Certification | Training Portal Windows Server…
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Email archiving solutions
What's everyone using for email archiving, and what do you think about it? Symantec Enterprise Vault and Barracuda Message Archiver are at the top of my list to investigate at the moment. Any other solutions out there worth mentioning? And what are the opinions of the ones I mentioned?
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Cannot load services.msc
I need to run on a service before installing an upgrade to one of our programs. Every time I try to open up services, I get the below error: MMC cannot open the file c:\windows\system32\services.msc May be because file does not exist, is not a MMC console, or was created by a later version of MMC. This may also be because…
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Printer install
Hi Does anyone know if a batch file can install a network printer locally, create a tcp-ip port put in printers IP click have disk point to the inf file for the drivers you know how am doing it yer The printer IP could be in with the bat file and also the path for the drivers so all I would do is run the batch file would…
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Windows 7 activated or not?
Hi As the title says, is there a way to scan the network and report if there are any clients on windows 7 that are not yet activated Once I have deployed a Win7 image using SCCM it needs activating and not sure if I done it to everyone of them, doh :)
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Boson Netsim Simulator
Hi, Just a quick questions for any Boson Netsim users, is there a way of importing newer network devices as in Routers and Switches to Boson? The version 6.3 that I am using has all of the legacy devices and due to the IOS on them it does not allow me to add certain configurations to my creation of labs. :)
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Another QOS
Hey everyone, Cisco 5505 with Security plus, 2xT1s. I have a client two has two sites. One site holds a large Citrix farm. The second site, a dozen or so users with a couple of local servers. They are insistent on using FTP to move documents to the remote site. So we enabled FTP on a server there and added an access rule.…
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Buying Ebooks.
Where do you guys buy your IT ebooks? So far I get my ebooks from the CD which came with my text book that I bought. However, the new Cisco books, and some other text books don't come with CD's anymore. Also, since some IT text books come with practice exam on CD, if I buy the ebook version, would I be able to download the…