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… Dr Web LiveCD is on hand to help you to get things back in order. As the name suggests, this is a live CD that can be used to boot an otherwise inaccessible computer with a view to retrieving files and fixing problems. Dr Web LiveCD downloads as a disc image Read more…
Through the end of 2011 you will receive a 10% discount on domain hosting and / or domain registration orders over $50 by using discount code 50CN10 on our hosting portal which you can access HERE. For about $4/month you will receive: Dozens of web development tools (like WordPress, Joomla and Read more…
CAT5e Lets start off with Cat5e… and scrap it. It is expected that 80% of new corporate installs will use Cat6 or Cat6a by the end of 2011; given this trend and massive speed boosts with Cat6 you would (in general) be crazy to instal Cat5 in the walls of Read more…
This video shows how to take the side panel bezel off a an Acer Veriton N282G or Revo and install an additional 2GB of RAM, bringing the total to 4GB. It also shows detailed closedups of the Veriton N motherboard, hard drive, fan, wireless card and more. It looks like Read more…
I figured out How to Add A Gantt Chart to Sharepoint 2010 Foundation last year, but I forgot and it took me over an hour to figure it out again, so this time I am writing the process down. There are two ready ways to create a Gantt chart via Read more…
It doesn’t matter how you are paid; staff, contractor, agency… you customer will look to you for reliability and that means you need to be more than good, you need to be great. These are the rules I live by and judge others by. It you want to be a Read more…
In addition to the “motivator / hygiene“ theory stuff many of us learned about in University, this presenter explains two additional and fascinating concepts: Over pay actually reduces performance Letting people work on their own corporate projects works for knowledge workers (but not labourers) and especially so, if you require staff Read more…
UPDATED: November 2016 If you are confused by SAN, NAS, DAS, iSCSI, FC… and want a simple explanation, then this is the post for you! INTERNAL STORAGE = Disks in the Box The classic. A bunch of disks inside a standard (usually Windows) server, configured in whatever RAID you want. Read more…
MICROSOFT PROJECT DOES NOT CALCULATE DURATION PROPERLY If you have ever had the pleasure of working with Microsoft Project you will likely be quite happy with it until you start changing the RESOURCE UNITS percentages (in the TASK INFORMATION pane). If you make changes you will find that it often Read more…
I recently completed a Lunch & Learn on how to EASILY take any number of still photos / graphics and add it to video clips to make a single video using just FREE Microsoft software. The primary tool is Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 and this course covers: preparation adding Read more…
NORTELS DEAD: What are you going to do now? It used to be so easy to choose a quality phone system that would last 15+ years with almost no maintenace, but then Nortel went Bankrupt. In 2006 Nortel (Bell Canada) had 82% of the North American corporate phone market, was huge Read more…
Originally, this post was titled: “If you are planning on putting a couple of SSD drives in a RAID 1 (Mirror), don’t.” but after many more hours of calls to Intel and pages of reading I can safely say: “If you are planning on putting a couple of SSD drives Read more…
I just spent 20 minutes trying to find a way to “sync” my old Media Center Remote (generation 1 from about 2003) with my new XBox 360 Slim. On my old XBox 360, the remote worked with no setup at all. The answer is that there is no “sync”, you Read more…
To be direct the answer is disable Samsung FAST START program. Samsung’s own software overrides Windows 7 POWER OPTIONS settings and greys out several options, including: REQUIRE A PASSWORD ON WAKEUP POWER BUTTON AND LID LID CLOSE ACTIONS POWER BUTTON ACTIONS SLEEP BUTTON ACTION FAST START is enabled by default Read more…
Microsoft cautions against “administration” of the Windows Internal Database (WID, formerly named SQL Server Compact Edition or CE) in articles like THIS one. However, there are time when you may want to gain access to it for things like: database moves (because the SQL WID is installed on C: whether Read more…
Seagate does not sell a 3TB external drive (as of December 2010) but I needed one. The only other drive today is Western Digitals 3TB but it is slower, and I am not a fan of Western Digital… oh ya, and the Seagate 3TB EXTERNAL was $40 LESS expensive that Read more…