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This blog as such is no longer maintained. If you are looking for information geared towards IT Professionals, try my new site - informednetworker.com .
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As a Network Engineer for Collages.Net I handle storage - lots of it. While the figures of yesterday, even on the enterprise level was oftentimes gigabytes or a few terabytes, now dozens or hundreds of terabytes is common-place, even amongst smaller businesses...
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Disclaimer: This How To is based on my personal experience. My suggestions may not always be the best route for all individuals, but I have attempted to give a reasonable method for purchasing a vehicle. Buying a car is a big investment. Charity and I...
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One of the more innovative companies in existence these days is GrandCentral - a company that seeks to allow individuals to keep one phone number for life. This number can ring a variety of different numbers - all at the same time and is highly customizable...
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Google recently received heavy fire for one of their employees, Lauren Turner, support of the "big healthcare systems" against Michael Moore and his recent documentary (?) release, Sicko. Wily Ferret has written an article over at The Inquirer...
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Today we had our second annual (last year was canceled because of weather) water fight. The first year the girls had beat the guys quite solidly, though we were heavily outnumbered. This year, while there were more guys, there were still many more girls...
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eBooks were somewhat late '90's. Project Gutenberg was revolutionizing the world of e-texts and it felt as if every book would soon be an ebook. While Project Gutenberg is still going strong (and I am a big fan) readers quickly discovered that...
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Everyone knows about XML, but our familiarity with actually implementing in applications may vary. I personally have had minimal needs for XML thus far. As a hobbyist programmer I was mainly using SQL databases and the only significant portion of my site...
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I've been looking for a curriculum to use in youth group during the small group time. Its hard preparing two lessons in a single night, especially when there are so many other responsibilities in life. Finding a curriculum that would give some flow...
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I'm not a perfect person. In fact, one of the things about myself I most often write or talk about is my Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and the co-morbid (occurring at the same time) depression. I struggle with both of these on a regular basis...
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Today I was talking with Kevin Clough, a developer at Collages.Net (where I work as well). We were discussing Microsoft's software and how it was extremely useful (we are both .NET programmers, though professionally I handle networks - not software...
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When I was a child I played the shareware version of W.R. Hutsell's VGA Civil War Strategy Game. Eventually I saved up enough money ($10) to purchase the game. For hours on end I would play and replay. The game stuck with me. Eventually I wrote Mr...
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Buy a tape library. Buy tapes for your tape library. Buy a SCSI card for your server. Buy expensive backup software such as Symantec (formerly Veritas) Backup Exec. Load tapes, backup servers, pull tapes, clean drive, insert second group of tapes and...
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I tried several times downloading and installing Wubi - a unsupported installer for Ubuntu Linux that creates Ubuntu within a file instead of creating a partition. It appears there were some issues with the earlier Wubi installer in Windows Vista and...
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Community Server 2007 SP2 was recently released. I suppose I should upgrade soon. But I am moving away from CS because of Telligent's licensing scheme, and the continued lack of some features that DotNetNuke offers. While CS is still faster than DNN...