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Question from a C++ noob
I decided to start learning C++ today. I was making a un-managed (native) console C++ app in VS 2008. My C++ noob question is that I cannot find a compiled executable anywhere within the project's folder; how do I have it create the .exe for me?
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How to tell if a network printer is off line in Windows 7?
In Xp you had the nice little feature to select which would bring up another page of printers where it would show if they were on line or off line. In Windows 7 however it just shows the name type and comments. Is this a system admin function or can I add a column to reflect the printers status? Any information would be…
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Cisco ACS Groups - MS AD Groups
Hi guys, just a quick one before I start heading off in the wrong direction. Currently we have ACS used for AAA plus a couple of other things. We have several groups set up and administration is done through the ACS. We are now migrating away from Novell to MS AD. I've managed to setup users within AD and a dynamic link to…
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Irvine Info
So Irvine has a ton of IT jobs available. Can anyone tell us about the area and the pros/cons of living/working there? Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Irvine Obviously, cost of living is high, but is it possible to work and live there without being an executive? I see it's a 70 square mile city. How…
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Making Protocols work together
It's all easy today ;) *Those not terribly interested in networking will rightly skip this thread* But back in the day making network protocols work together was a black art. Here is a link talking about IPX/IP gateway services.. Capacity Planning for the IntranetWare IPX/IP Gateway I have also stumbled upon a good article…
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Virtualisation Question
Morning people I have a question for you guys which has been bugging me but do not want to sound like a idiot in the process lol ahwell here it goes. Is there a way of setting up a server virtually and getting it to boot automatically when the computer / server is powered on, i.e for example if you had a server handling…
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B is For Botnet
YouTube - B is for Botnet [ABCs of IT]
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Anyone know much about Nortel Phones?!
Hi! I'm having some issues in my office. Whenever someone calls in from the outside, it rings on every phone!! I haven't done too much on phone systems before, so I don't want to break anything. Does anyone know what commands or options I have to setup just so it'll ring at the Front Desk phone only. Any help is much…
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Openfiler & PERC 6/i drivers
Anyone get this to work? I'm having issues with the drivers.
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Your tires are under attack
Tire pressure monitor systems could reveal driver location - Computerworld I don't feel threatened by this, but I think it is quite interesting that it is possible. What do you guys think?
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Opinion...
Ok so as many of you know, I am working 2 jobs right now. I am probably going to end my moonlight gig at the end of this month or the beginning of next month. Well I got a call from a place yesterday about doing some cisco work for them. Being a part time network engineer. Now I don't know if I am going to take it, or if…
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which domain should I use
Hello all, I am hoping that someone of you can help me decide on what domain name to choose for my website. If anybody can give there opinion, I would appreciate it. I am creating a website about fitness and healthy lifestyles and can't seem to choose which one would be more attractive and easy to remember for the public.…
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Heritage/family tree
I've seen it mentioned in posts about the lack of minorities in IT and also from people from different places. Even mentions from people wanting to visit where their family originated from. That would be really hard for me as someone from my family ( 2nd or 3rd cousin I think) did one of those extensive family tree things…
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Public Wi-Fi - what kind of hardware?
We have a public wifi hotspot available. It really nothing more than a run of the mill netgear wireless router, and it goes out daily. I dont know if it is due to the # of connections or what, but I need to improve it. Does anyone have a peice of hardware they would recommend for public access. We might have 5-10 people on…
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Need a bigger screen lol
That is how you monitor the I/O of 40 VMs in real time when you pull the plug of SANs haha
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Certification Tracking
There has got to be a website that could provide you with a number certified individuals for each certification. I have been to such a website but man has it been hard to find it again. Any suggestions?
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Tax Free Weekend
Now I'm sure that most everyone here probably builds their own systems so tax free weekend probably isn't that big of a notion (not to mention that online it's tax free weekend every day). But I was curious if anyone else braved the crowds to grab some some sort of tech device while it was tax free. Me personally I drove…
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Is this possible?
Person claims that the led lights on the front of their laptop spontaneously caught fire and did this kind of damage: All that's there is a tiny daughter board that houses the LED lights(power, hdd, battery) and the mic and headphone ports. It is connected to the main board by a small ribbon cable. The only thing I though…
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Monitor ESX 4 Server with Nagios
Does anybody know how to monitor a VmWare 4 server with Nagios?
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referrals on TE
Anybody know what this means: General Information* Last Activity: Today 07:00 AM * Current Activity: Viewing User Control Panel * Join Date: 04-21-2009 * Referrals: 1 What are referrals?
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Post your PCS and other tech stuf
I saw we have the post your lab thread in the Cisco forums, and I thought i'd be nice to post some other tech related pictures. Feel free to post pictures of PC's, labs, or anything else tech related... EDIT: Is there a way to restrict the size of the pictures? lol, this was a decoration at my old office at christmas. It…
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Hi from Turtlegirl
Hi, I wasn't sure where to post as I haven't been here in years, so please forgive me if I have posted in wrong area. I don't think many people remember me, but I was seriously interested in security at the time. I didn't end up in security but enjoyed getting all my qualifications. Just wanted to know if all the same…
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Anyone using Openfiler in a production environment?
As subject...
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Technet pro very disappointed
So I took the plunge I heard about the technet pro and while listening to Windows weekly several weeks back a 25% off code was useable. I bought it last night and I love it, I've updated all three of my machines to Windows 7 and running office 2010 and what not. Sadly I'm disppointed in Microsoft though for being touted…
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CBT Nuggets
Is there any place to buy them used?
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Good route for a job...
Hello everyone, I am currently enrolled in college and would like some advice on a good path for a computer network type of job. List below is what my college offers and I am also going to be taking the A+ and Network+ test in the near future. A.A.S: Computer Database Specialist, Computer Network Administration(Router…
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Anyone using Dell Equallogic iSCSI SANs (PS4/6000 series) ?
It might be a stupid question, but neither the installation manual nor the group administration manual is clear in that .. or I missed it (more likely) .. The question is in regards to the group settings. In my case I have 1. Group IP: 172.20.1.1 2. eth0: 172.20.1.10 3. eth1: 172,20.1.20 and Management IP: 192.168.42.1…
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Weird XP issue
So I started working at one of the busiest repair shops in town earlier in the week and I was given the task to take one of the PC's in the back and just bring it up to speed with updates and some anti-virus so they can sell it. Well, that's not such a hard task right, wrong, I've hit a snag and need some help here as it's…
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Cause this won't start a war...
Why Linux Is More Secure Than Windows - Yahoo! News
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Monitor spraying
Hi Guys an Gals, :) In middle of decorating my boys room with all kinds of kit goin in it and all of it apart from the monitors are black, i have 3 HP 17" monitors on the wall all with silver round the edge Has anyone ever managed to spray something like this black? Any help would be great There is a total of 4 PC's in the…
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Strange CPU clock variances
Today I got bored and I stressed tested my Phenom II 955 with OCCT (it's avg max core temp is 62.5c but since AMD max temps for Phenoms are rated by the CPU sensor that's several degrees lower than core I'm safe although a bit hot.) I noticed that both the CPU clock and FSB increased slightly, something that I have never…
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Sonicwall
Well I started our upgrade yesterday but we didn't get everything so I had to pick it back up today. As I am working on this gear it hit me that I hardly ever hear anyone talk about Sonicwall. Anyone here use them in production/done a migration from another product to Sonicwall?
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Possible dead HDD on laptop?
I'm working on a person's nephews' laptop again this time it seems that the HDD in the laptop is dead. On the first few boot attempts Windows would start to load and then stop, now I'm getting the no bootable device message (yes I have double checked the BIOS). I attempted to run Fedora 11 Live CD and I got a strange error…
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360 IT event, London
Hi all, I saw this: 360°IT - The IT Infrastructure Event - 22-23 September 2010 advertised on the infosec.co.uk website, I was wondering if anyone has heard anything about it or is going to it? It's hosted by the same people that do InfoSec Europe I think, so whether thats anything to go by or not, I don't know.
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Determine which driver cause blue screen.
Hi, Could you help me to find which driver causes the problem please? I have two IIS servers (the same hardware – DL380 G5 and drivers) based on Windows Server 2008 SP1 in NLB cluster. They have been working fine for 1.5 year without any problems. Last month one of the crushed and rebooted, since then it is working fine.…
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Microsoft Exchange Online
Hey everyone, Has anyone tried Microsoft Exchange online? The key feature I am interested in is coexistence. We have a large number of Exchange 2003/2007 customers who want to leverage their current hardware but would benefit from moving some of their departments to a hosted model. Thoughts? Experiences?
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Started a new blog...
So I started a new Blog. Mainly AD focus, with some system center and a spot for my thoughts on certifications. Are there any topics people would like to see? Or any tech tips (from simple to fairly complex) that people would like? Just looking for input. The blog is: The RepAdmin Active Directory Blog Thanks all!
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Dallas, TX or Atlanta, GA?
I have a opportunity to move and I'm taking it, I have a option to go to either city and live. I've been to Dallas before for about 2 weeks and it was okay but that was way back in 2002. I wanted to do a little comparison between the two to figure in the pros and cons of both situations. I live in Ft. Lauderdale and I took…
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Shmoocon 2011
Anyone going? They just put up the site and some general info so far...
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ISO27001 Recommendation / Templates
I'm currently working on a project to implement ISO27001 for a small size company. is there any sites which will demonstrate on how to implement all clauses? I need to see a example or template on implementing cluase 4.1,4.2.1 etc..? I need help on setting up intranet to share documents with others, need to see the looks…
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advice
Hi all, I am a new user to this forum and i pretty much need some general advice. I have no real world experience in IT and I am quite desperate to get into the field. I am currently studying Comptia a+ and hope to pass it in the next month or so. I am not sure in which direction to go once I complete this cert. I am not…
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Installing Win7 to a SSD error message
Hi all, recently built a new pc and have a ssd hdd for it but when i try and isntall to it i get a error message saying its connected via USB or IEEE 1394 Full error message is Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Setup does not support configuration of or installtion to disks connected though a USB or IEEE 1394 port.…
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Too Geeky?
I ordered one of these for the wife and future tax write-off and it arrived yesterday. ThinkGeek :: RITMO - Prenatal Musical System I don't think that alone is too geeky, but the music I loaded up on the iPod shuffle I gave her included the Halo 3 soundtrack. Do you think that was too much?
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What is CRM.
Customer relationship management. I know what it is it basically a tool which helps you keep in track of customers, but can someone give me a good explanation of this and some examples etc, also what are the pros and cons.
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vmware infrastructuer resize vm huh? HELP
hey guys I thought resizing a vm was easy I have done it a few times. I thought you just turn off vm. resized disk to the size you want then turn it back on? how long does it take to resize the partition? I mean what the heck else do i have to do chew gum and patt my head i mean that is all I have every done. it even shows…
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AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz 6-Core Processor for Multiple Virtual Machines?
I'm going to be building a desktop at the end of the month and one of the things I will be doing is running multiple virtual machines for studying MCSE stuff and running labs. Do you all think this would be a great proc for that? I would also be multitasking by running TV tuner software, web browsing and other stuff at the…
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Delete External Web data from Excel
I have imported the 'Currency Rates Provided by MSN Money' data into my excel speadsheet using data> Import External Data> Import Data Only problem is now I can't delete it! I can delete the cell data by highlighting it but when I refresh my other external data on the sheet the Currency Rates Provided by MSN Money data…
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KPI`s
Hi all, i am on the scrounge for some information regarding KPI`s. I would like to issue some KPI`s to a monthly meeting covering IT, and wondered if anyone is doing this and if so, what do you show results on and what software do you use in order to show the information.
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Wireless Keyboard with a Trackpad
Anyone have any good experiences with one in particular? I kinda want to start playing around with a home theater box and figure that would probably be the easiest route to take. I looked at a few and read a lot of reviews but nothing jumps out at me. I'm not trying to drop $150 on a diNovo, but if that is the only thing…
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CA server
I want to set up a root CA on LINUX, but what is a good CA server to use? This is either on UNBUNTU or Debian, I would like a GUI as it wont just be for me to use but some other staff to. And Ideally I would like users to be able to request certificates (using an enrolment process) that admins can authorise. I am thinking…
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Exchange 2003 help
Alright, I have pulled a Google fail. Hoping someone in here knows. I need to pull a user list along with all their allias from an Exchange 2003 box into a CSV. Anyone have a nifty script for this?
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HTC Evo
So anybody else notice more rogue access points at work? I picked up several this past week. Considering we just had a guy arrested for spying for the Chinese we have to tighten things up around here. I got a "meh" response when I picked up one outside our classified area. One of the construction workers building a new…
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Dell Posts Nude Photos
Slashdot Idle Story | Woman's Nude Pics End Up Online After Call To Tech Support Seriously who is stupider the woman for calling or the tech for doing it....
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Core i7 980X is love.
I have 12 CPUs (6 physical cores, 6 virtual). How many virtual routing instances in GNS3 do you think I can pull with this thing?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I remember reading a forum post about having to manually configure GNS3 so that each process will get distributed across the processors evenly. Has anyone stress tested a 12-core…
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What is software as a service?
What is software as a service? A company that provides Software as a Service solutions what do they do exactly?
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Tools of the trade
I had this blog for a while didn't know if I was going to post it, but I have been working on some new ideas so until then check this out. Urban Cisco Engineer: Tools of the Trade
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OS profiling for noobs like Pash
Hi Security nuts!, Ok so, you guys can earn your salt with me today if you have suggestions :D . The homies from IBM security division are giving me **** again this week. They have completed a PEN test this week again for my customer. They seem to think that we havent actually fixed an underlying issue with the good ole…
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script help
I'm looking for a script that can install a set of software packages when a user logins.Does anybody know any scripts that can do this? I have a few exe's I'm trying to push out to a group of users.
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*is annoyed*
You know what frustrates the heck out of me? Why do they still call AES Rijndael? It is so much easier to remember (and say) AES. GRRR!
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Happy SysAdmin Day!
I don't think this was posted yet. Our boss is suppose to take us out somewhere. Anyone do anything interesting today?
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Pming?
Hi Not sure how to pm a user on the forums,or is that not supported?
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Pulling the plug
I will be canceling my cable next month. I hardly ever watch TV, but it will be harder on my 6 and 7 year old kids. I tested netflix on our Wii and it works great, pretty big kids selection. All I ever really watched was some shows on Discovery (Man vs Wild, Deadliest Catch) but I can get those from the web. I waited for…
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Anyone going to DEFCON 18 this year?
OK, my annual trek to Defcon is two weeks away. Anyone else gonna be there? DEF CON Hacking Conference - The Hacker Community's Foremost Social Network. Defcon 18 will happen July 30th - August 1, 2010 at the Riviera Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Admission is $140 USD at the door (no pre-registration available).
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Why the Ubuntu hype?
I wanted to learn a bit more Linux, so I stuck EasyPeasy on my Asus Eee. It's a naff name but apparently is configured for my netbook. I previously had XP but it took up too much space (only 8GB HDD), even after tweaking. Everyone raves about Ubuntu but my user experience isn't so flash: Mouse is way too slow, even on…
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ADD problems
I'm considering seeing a doctor to check for ADD, which I've kinda suspected for the past 12 years. I feel my problems with study and attention is beyond mere boredom with reading dry text. I also feel it may be affecting my wife too as it sometimes seems like I have the attention span of a goldfish. Then there's the…
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Privacy - Financial Times
FT.com / Comment / Editorial - Protecting privacy
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Firewall Testing
Anyone know of a decent testing tool (or set of tools) to go about testing a firewall. I know about NMAP and backtrack and stuff but I am looking for performance testing and so on.
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Telecommuting, your thoughts?
Whenever I finish my 4-year degree and I start looking for a job, I'm thinking about finding a telecommuting position so that I can entirely work from home. I know of a friend a while back that applied for a web development job online and it's working well for him. Telecommuting really appeals to me because: I'm not a very…
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Security Policy
Hi everyone, I'm in the process of writing our security policy (small company, never had one before, been hell trying to get them to approve instituting one) and I was wondering if anyone could take a few minutes to review the policy I have written. Please shoot me a private message if you have a few moments to spare.…
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Kindle DX (and PDFs)
The good news is the PDF support on the Kindle DX works great. I haven't tried anything with DRM.... In portrait mode is strips off the margins to maximize the display area -- and since I'm nearsighted (and my eyes are getting BETTER with old age) I take off my glasses and hold it where it's comfortable. I haven't had any…
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Ritilin as a "Study Aid"
Using ADHD type drugs to help concentrate on studies. I find this bizarre but apparanty, is becoming more and more common. Reuters Link Cognition-enhancing drugs common among academics | Reuters
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DNS problem
Ok this one is confusing... So I just built a new web server on our local network. Everything on the server works fine now comes the tricky part. When users try connect to it by using the name only some can connect others cannot. However everyone can connect using the ip address. So obviously it would be a DNS issue. The…
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Best case/protector for IPhone 4?
I am about to buy an Iphone 4 and this is my first Iphone and even first smart-phone so I am a complete noob. What is the best screen protector and case I can buy to protect my large investment?
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Network Printer issues
I have a network printer on a 2003 server I just added a couple of weeks ago. The issue is the following and i am dumbfounded by it. I am able to print to the printer from my pc or any other pc as long as I am logged in as a domain admin.... now when I try to print to the printer as a regular user I am not able to print…
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Custom Application Deployment
I seem to be having a hard time with this project at work and I know I'm not the only one who has dealt with this type of project before. The company I work for develops software and as a member of the data center team we have to take their releases/patches/updates and apply them to all the servers (including QA). The…
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Home Network -- Patch Panel Question
Okay I circled important areas, i'll start from the top to help you visualize whats going on here. I want to enable all ethernet jacks that are wired within my condo. The internet company is trying to charge me $20 a pop. Surely I can do this myself. Just cant figure out how they made one jack hot and the rest disabled.…
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Customer service in the IT field
Check out the blog below.
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Learning Perl
Hi everyone, I'm in the process of teaching myself Perl and I wanted to recommend those who are interested in the language check out the book Learning Perl by Randal Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and Brian Foy. The authors do a great job of keeping the content interesting, comparing the programming concepts to things a…
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CAC and Certs
I receive a ticket that got me stump today and was wondering if any1 here seen something like this. We use CAC at work and everyone have their unique certs loaded on those CAC. Now when you go to ie>tools>internet option>content>certs>Other People - on the USER IE it just shows 3 certs. There should be a lot more certs.…
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Starcraft 2
Do you guys play the game? Or all of you just read books all day long?
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Exchange migration help
Currently we have another company we aquired and would like to create a exchange server 2007 box here at our Corporate office and migrate them over. They are currently using exchange 2003 at their office. Basically we are thinking of creating a child domain within our current domain and have their user accounts transfer…
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Access List Matrix
Hi, I just wondered if anyone here has had to design an access list matrix. We have just recently had an infosec visit and we have had some recommendations that we need to conform to, to be infosec compliant. One of them is that all access lists need to appear as non meaningful. I.E the below meaningful names would need to…
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This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions - Read Only Documents - TS
We have some Windows Server 2008 terminal servers with Office 2007 installed. All of the main folders (Documents, Pictures, Roaming AppData etc are redirected). We have a GPO that restricts access to the server’s local common drives (C:\ etc). When our users open and select ‘Save As’ on attachments from Outlook within…
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U.S security vulnerable due to shortage of "Cyberwarriors"
Just read this and thought I would pass it along. According to the NPR, the U.S. may be the most vulnerable country in the world for a large-scale cyberattack, and that there are only "1,000 people in the entire United States" with the skills neccessary for complex cyberdefense tasks. In a report, shortly to be released…
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No motivation to study
Hi I have a mini problem. In my mind, I keep telling myself that I must get the A+ certificate or Network+ certificate. I open the textbook and read a few pages and suddenly I close the book and place it back onto my bookshelf. I don't know how am I going to read the 1000 page book when I'm not fully motivated. For…
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ISA2006/TMG2010 port 80 issue
Hi I have a issue with TMG proxy server on my network. It is joined to our parent domain and is working well serving proxy clients on port 8080. We have not installed the TMG/ISA client on any workstations but rely on Group policy to enforce proxy settings to clients. My problem is that being a school we have found some…
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I have found the geek pr0n.
Rate My Network Diagram It's awesome. :D
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Cisco Softphone
Hey guys, We have a CME customer who would like to use his Softphone from home, like their CEO does. Basically the CEO VPNs in with the Cisco VPN Client 5 then turns on the Softphone and it works. When I attempted to set this up for the other user it started hijacking the CEO's setup. It would appear the Cisco VPN client…
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disaster recovery
Is anyone responsible for this at their current company? I will be doing a lot of this soon and just looking for pointers. I am going to focus at regular off site backups, some sort of quarterly, bi annual and yearly exercise, and regular restores for testing. Any other advice, tools, theories etc would be appreciated.…
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using SMTP relay server without SSL.
I am currently doing this task for work, I am using my ISP's SMTP mail server as my relay server to send out notifications in sharepoint. The ISP SMTP mail server does not support SSL so is this a safe option for me to use? will all of the emails etc be unencrypted ?
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Laptop randomly turning on
So I rarely actually shut my laptop down. It is usually in hybernate, but sometimes sleeping too. Recently it has started to wake up. I was sleeping next to it, and woke up to it running with the lid closed. I assumed that I had bumped something and started it. But today it was on my desk when I woke up. Hybernated at…
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Image Runner
Anyone here ever set up an image runner 5050N on your network? I have checked around but I cannot seem to find a good admin guide for the device.
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Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing - WSJ
The Motorola RFID reader shown in this article looks to be identical to the ones we use to track inventory. Wal-Mart to Put Radio Tags on Clothes - WSJ.com
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Need help finding a driver for an old printer
I have a ten year old printer, HP630c. Windows 7 64-bit cannot find a driver for it. I tried the XP drivers on HP's site but no luck. Any help on finding a working driver is appreciated. I do have a newer EPSON all-in-one but that thing is an ink hog.
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Bank of America's Online Banking website down
I pay my bills exclusive through this website. My mortgage in particular, and I had to phone that in and then demand they waive whatever fee they charge for that, since that is also held by Bank of America. Since I have a checking account, mortgage and credit card through them, I am considered a preferred customer, so they…
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Don't buy Dell?
A number of Dell motherboards have malware in their ESM firmware? If unauthorised changes or malware can slip into Dell firmware images then do you trust the rest of their systems?
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Anyone used Double-Take?
Curious if anyone had any experience with Double-Take software. Particularly, using it in a DR role converting P2V and V2P, and/or replicating VM's. I've only used Symantec BESR in a test environment and it was pretty good.
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ISO27001 Implementation Help!!
I work in a small company as a Systems Manager and now have requirement to follow iso27001 framework. due to financial crisis we are not hiring any auditors. I will be implementing the whole concept. does anyone knows any good links for examples of impementation policy,prodecures and documentations. I have some books but…