If you have a PC that is very slow and you notice that Task Manager shows near 100% disk is being used but the individual items do not sum to anything approaching 100%, you may have an issue with SuperFetch. Fortunately it is easy to correct. We recently dealt with […]
When I started working NIC Teaming I thought that “link aggregating” two NIC’s would double my throughput and while that is possible, it is not likely and here is why.
When you link aggregate or Team Network cards using the common standards of the last decade, each NIC will still only connect to one system at its maximum speed (often 1GB). Teaming / Link Aggregation lets that same server connect to a second system (say another server or a desktop PC) at it’s maximum speed (often 1GB). So, if you have a single 10GB connection on SERVER A, and SERVER B has two 1GB teamed NIC’s, those two servers will only talk at a 1GB maximum. The two 1GB NIC’s on SERVER B will not double the throughput to 2Gb.
Creating a network adapter team is generally an easy way to double triple or quadruple your throughput but there are a number of annoying roadblocks to get around with Broadcom NIC’s Broadcom NIC Teaming Gotchas: Install the latest Broadcom firmware and drivers Unplug your network cables while creating the team […]
If you are running a default WordPress installation on IIS you will find that you can upload files into the MEDIA LIBRARY without any problem but if you try to download those files, you will see a 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR or a 500.50 URL REWRITE MODULE ERROR (depending on […]
A default install of IIS on Server 2008, 2012 or 2016 does support URL rewriting the way WordPress expects. This means that if you change the PERMALINK structure from the default (and ugly and SEO killing) page ID so your URLs look like: http://www.URTech.ca/?page_id=4 . If you do change the […]
Google Earth desktop is going away; it is being replaced with Google Earth Web App. That should not be a big surprise in this connected world. For more details, read THIS. However, Google is still producing new builds of Google Earth as the Web App version still has serious limitations. […]
If you have purchased an OEM (from the hardware vendor, like Dell, HP, Lenovo…) copy of Windows Server 2016 it will be version 1609 build 10.0.14393. You likely know that the most recent version of Windows Server 2016 is version 1709 (i.e. September 2017) and want to upgrade prior to […]
If you want to distill the argument between Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc server processors down to three things, they would be: AMD’s interconnection of the Cores on Epyc is much slower than on Intel Xeon’s AMD Epyc CPU’s are faster than Intel Xeon in memory intensive applications In general, […]
If you are having unexplained performance problems with your WordPress Site and you have already tried: disabling ALL your plug-ins – 99% of the time Add-In’s) are the problem with WordPress sites installing a AntiVirus and running a scan on the site – we strongly recommend the free version of […]
Today Microsoft announced that it is partnered with major PC hardware manufacturers to produce 5 new Mixed Reality headsets. Mixed Reality? Mixed Reality is the term used to describe the merging of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) . Acer, Lenovo, Dell, Samsung and HP showed off their new […]
If Samsung Galaxy S6 has been rooted and a non-factory operating system has been loaded you likely already know that there are problems: You voided your warranty You can not longer receive updates over-the-air from your provider The Samsung Galaxy might be unstable Your Galaxy might have a virus or other […]
If you have a Juniper / Pulse Secure VPN device and you use the Host Checker to confirm that connecting PC’s have an Anti Virus on them, you will eventually have a situation in which you need to allow and AV that is not on the ESAP list. In my case […]
If you see transfer speeds bouncing up and down on any system (Windows PC, Linux Server, network appliance, NAS disk, firewall, router…), the most likely cause is at the physical layer. That means that you likely have a bad cable, poor physical connection or your equipment is not auto-negotiating a […]
There are dozens of common ways for hackers to uncover your passwords. Below are the top ten ways this occurs in 2016: phishing – spam messages (emails, texts…) asking you and millions of others for passwords usually by asking you to reset or verify your credentials spear phishing – sending […]
“Best” is a relative word so let me be clear that I think the Lumia 650 will be the best cell phone buy of 2016. In January Microsoft announced Lumia 650 which has amazing spec’s… for the price. At just $200 this cell has everything a standard user would want, […]
This page details the keys needed to boot a PC into various modes (like the BIOS and PXE Network) from various manufacturers. If you are stuck and you can try the common keystrokes during a POST and before the Operating System loads: ESC, F1, F2, F8, F9, F10, F12 and Delete key. […]