Saturday, June 17, 2006

How To Remotely Monitor Windows Memory Usage

Adding extra RAM when your machine doesn't really need it is pointless. Here's how to tell when it's time.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

How To Run Your Own Name Servers With ISPConfig And GoDaddy

This tutorial shows how you can run your own name servers for domains that you register with GoDaddy. Of course, this works with every other registrar as well, although the procedure might differ a little bit. To do this, you need two servers with two different public IP addresses and with ISPConfig installed, and of course a GoDaddy account.

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Documentation for Windows Small Business Server 2003

Very useful list of documentation for anyone who works with SBS 2003.


Backing Up and Restoring Windows Small Business Server 2003

Connecting Mobile and Remote Users

Deploying Windows 2000 Server Terminal Server to Host User Desktops in a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Environment

Deploying Windows Mobile 5.0 with Windows Small Business Server 2003

Deploying Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server to Host User Desktops in a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Environment

Documentation for Windows Small Business Server 2003 with SP1 Transition Pack

Getting Started: Windows Small Business Server 2003 with SP1

Hosting a Business Card Web Site

How to Install and Configure Small Business Accounting 2006 on Windows SBS 2003

Information Workers Guide to the Windows SBS Computer Network

Installing and Securing Microsoft CRM 1.2 on a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network

Installing and Securing Microsoft Small Business Manager 7.5 on Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003

Migrating from a Peer-to-Peer Network to a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network

Migrating from Small Business Server 2000 or Windows 2000 Server to Windows Small Business Server 2003

Migrating from Small Business Server 4.5 or Windows NT Server 4.0 to Windows Small Business Server 2003

Moving Data Folders for Windows Small Business Server 2003

Publishing a SharePoint Web Site Accessible to External Users

Running Multiple Servers in a Windows Small Business Server Environment

Step-by-Step Guide to Adding and Managing Additional Servers in a Windows Small Business Server Network

Windows Small Business Server 2003 with SP1 Release Notes

Securing Your Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network

Step-by-Step Guide for Configuring and Using Fax on Windows Small Business Server 2003

Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Started with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services on Windows Small Business Server 2003

Updating a Windows Small Business Server 2003 Network Using Software Update Services Server 1.0

Upgrade Requirement Messages for Windows Small Business Server 2003 Setup

Windows Small Business Server 2003 Upgrade Best Practices

Windows Small Business Server 2003 Troubleshooting

Windows XP Service Pack 2 and Windows Small Business Server

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Repairing Windows XP in Eight Commands

Article describing how to repair Windows XP when your PC is inaccessible from the standard boot procedures, and you have to use the recovery console as your last resort!

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Windows vista delayed to 2007

Microsoft has delayed the release of its forthcoming Windows Vista operating system to 2007.

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Saturday, March 04, 2006

ISPs will soon back the P2P and bittorrent revolution for Television

This article explains why it is in the best interest of ISPs to actually back the TV over P2P and bittorrent revolution.
GREAT READ!!!

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Friday, February 24, 2006

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

How To Troubleshoot Any Networking Problem

Tech author extraordinaire Mark Minasi shares a bit over two dozen "rules of network troubleshooting." This will be new for some, a good review for others, and a handy reference for all.

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Thursday, February 02, 2006

The End of the Internet?

"Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access that would set limits on the number of downloads, media streams or even e-mail messages that could be sent or received."

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The End of the Internet?

"Industry planners are mulling new subscription plans that would further limit the online experience, establishing "platinum," "gold" and "silver" levels of Internet access that would set limits on the number of downloads, media streams or even e-mail messages that could be sent or received."

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Thursday, January 12, 2006

They are trying to ban IM

Ever since my co-worker started talking about the upcoming ban on IM clients in the office I set out looking for away around it. Even though I am one of the IT guys here and I could just ignore the nonsense my co-worker was talking about and go on my merry way I figure I had better be nice. So being nice is to continue to use IM but just use it in a way that any eyes peering over my shoulder wouldn't know what in the world I was doing.

I ran into Meebo in its early stages but my attention span then jumped to some other new shiny tech gadget, so I forgot all about it. I can't remember how I stumbled upon it again but I'm glad that I did. If need be I can talk on Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Jabber, or GTalk all from the comfort of my tabbed browser. What it lacks in fancy icons, audibles, and animated emoticons in makes up for in the This-is-just-really-cool department...not to mention useful for those who need ways to get around the ban of IM clients wherever they are at. If you need help with that just check out their forums for some advice.

So don't just try it because I say its cool, try it because you want to stick it to the man!!!

Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Play more than 10,000 Nintendo and Sega games !

NES, GameBoy, Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, Colecovision, PC Engine are all here ! Playable straight in your browser without any install !

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25 Reasons to Convert to Linux

25 reasons why many institutions, companies and governments are changing to Linux.

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Thursday, December 08, 2005

Color Photos taken 96 years ago!

Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images

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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Set up Linux and OSX to login using Active Directory

The Big Nerd Ranch has posted a blog on how to setup Linux and OSX so that you can login using your AD user name and password settings.

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Friday, November 11, 2005

VOIP No Longer for the Underdog

This is a good eWeek commentary on how VOIP "telephony" has progressed and where it's running into trouble.

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Monday, November 07, 2005

Start your own GeekSquad

Put GeekSquad out of business. Here are some helpful tips on how you can set up a remote support website to make extra money fixing people's computer problems using One Click VNC servers.

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Saturday, November 05, 2005

Dreamcast 2.0?

Is the Xbox 360 the second coming of the Sega Dreamcast? 1up.com lists 23 parallels between the consoles that spell doom, and 10 reasons why the 360 could succeed where the Dreamcast failed.

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Saturday, October 29, 2005

Could Not Parse File

I had an issue this morning when I tried to do an update with yum

[root@localhost yum.repos.d]# yum update
Setting up Update Process
Setting up Repos
dag 100% |=========================| 0 B 00:00
//var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Document is empty

^
//var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml:1: parser error : Start tag expected, '<' not found

^
Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: dag
Error importing repomd.xml from dag: Error: could not parse file //var/cache/yum/dag/repomd.xml


I did a search and found out that it pretty much had to do with the file "repomd.xml" that it was downloading from the DAG mirror, so I just switched mirrors in my /etc/yum.conf and everything started working as it should have.