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How would you like to tell Snake Doctor “The Unit” is cancelled?
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over 4 years ago
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Not me. Thanks to Matt Hester for bringing this to my attention and ruining my weekend.
Summer is here and so is laptop heat !!!
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over 4 years ago
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I finally found something that might make my Dell Latitude D820 or Apple MackBook Pro tolerable to use on the couch. You see, both of those machines generate a pretty significant amount of heat, and if you are already hot natured, you aren’t going...
What do you use for URL and keyword blocking?
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over 4 years ago
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Today I trekked down to the local Fry’s and picked up a couple of items I’ve been wanting and needing. The first item was the Netgear FVS318 ProSafe VPN Firewall . On paper this firewall has everything I need, except one thing. Throughput...
Sony PSP Go coming to E3 next week?
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
The Death of Twitter and Short URLs ???
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
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The first time I saw twitter and the little URL converters that shorten big long URLs into tiny undecipherable URL thingies, I just knew this was a technology looking for a problem. I was right. Sure enough, the bad guys have already started using Twitter...
IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Active-Office Systems Ltd.
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Your name: James Hunter-Paterson Company name: Active-Office Systems Ltd Your geographic location (country): UK Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? ( Yes or No ) YES Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to...
IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Ginger Grady
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Your name: Ginger Grady Company name: Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No) Name only, not company Objectives of the project: What problem...
IT Pro Momentum Program Results – O’Sullivan Consulting – Windows Server 2008
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Your name: William V. O'Sullivan Company name: O'Sullivan Consulting Your geographic location (country): Illinois USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No) Yes Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve...
IT Pro Momentum Results – O’Sullivan Consulting – Windows 7
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Your name: William V. O'Sullivan Company name: O'Sullivan Consulting Your geographic location (country): Illinois USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No) Yes Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve...
IT Pro Momentum Results - Professional Computer Services
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Your name: Warren M Pierro Company name: Professional Computer Services Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? ( Yes or No ) Yes Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to...
IT Pro Momentum Results – Anon Company 9
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? ( Yes or No ) No, thank you. Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve? Research and see if implementing Windows 7 would be a viable option for my customers. In...
IT Pro Momentum Results – Anon Company 8
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Country: United States (Tennessee) Public Disclosure of your name and Company name allowed? No Objectives of the project: We evaluated Hyper-V and SCVMM as a viable enterprise-level virtualization solution to run some critical machines and reduce TCO...
Bueller? Bueller?
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Remember this house from the movie? It’s for sale .
Zune HD Announced
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over 4 years ago
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See the Press Release details at http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2009/may09/05-26ZuneHDPR.mspx . Zune HD is the next iteration of the Zune device family and brings a new level of listening and viewing experiences to the portable media player...
Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP2 – now available
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista (SP2) is an update to Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 that supports new kinds of hardware and emerging hardware standards, and includes all updates delivered since SP1. SP2 simplifies administration...
Revisiting Application Compatibility in Windows 7
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Blogging is funny. Like all writers you go through dry spells on things to write about. I never really worry about it because like you, I actually have a day job and it keeps me plenty busy. Another reason is because good topics tend...
Dual Boot from VHD Using Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
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over 4 years ago
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Executive Summary Boot from VHD is a new technique for installing and maintaining operating system environments. Unlike virtual machines, the operating system that is running from a “boot from VHD” environment is using the actual hardware instead...
We have mice!
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
New mouse's (mice's?) have been discovered. I’m a lefty so I would probably opt for the one below since I am mousedextrous. For more information on the new mice and keyboards, checkout the press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009...
Lust on Wheels
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over 4 years ago
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Windows Server 2008 Interop with Linux and OS X
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
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We’re a little over halfway done with the Interop Road Show I helped create. Last week Matt Hester did a simulcast of the live event from Chicago. Although he did a great job, I wanted to capture the demos with Camtasia v6.0.2 and provide some high quality...
IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 7
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (No at present; maybe Yes after PR/Legal verify) Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve? We currently use DeepFreeze to protect our Student Desktops however...
IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 6
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? (Yes or No) No Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve? Solve inefficiencies and improve our virtualized server and VDI environments. Are you piloting or deploying...
IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 5
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? No Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve? Too many of our servers are running at poor utilization. Whether it be to many server...
IT Pro Momentum Program Results – OldCastle Materials
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Your name: Bob Hinton Company name: OldCastle Materials Your geographic location (country): USA Public disclosure of your name and company name...
IT Pro Momentum Program Results – Anon Company 4
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over 4 years ago
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Keith Combs
Public disclosure of your name and company name allowed? No Objectives of the project: What problem did you set out to solve? The objective was to reduce the dependencies for the onsite technicians, and to completely automate the OS...
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