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Friday, February 06, 2009 3:16 PM
Are You Certifiable?
Fun and certification? An oxymoron? Not at all!!!! Are you looking to test your expertise? If you’re an IT pro or a developer considering certification, or if you simply want to sharpen your skills, then you may be interested in
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008 10:27 AM
Indian Restaurant: Bangkok & Bombay - San Juan, Puerto Rico
Last week I was in San Juan, Puerto Rico for a long weekend visiting my friend Jose. We had just been to an authentic Puerto Rican restaurant in Old San Juan for lunch and were driving over to the beach, (yeah the beach in late December - its sunny
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 2:00 AM
Unified Communications helping Road Warriors: My laptop is now my phone!!!
My teammate John Weston has created a couple of great screencasts talking about how we use Unified Communications (UC) in our day-to-day work to keep us productive, especially when we're on the road. Everyone in the team has a UC phone number which means
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:00 AM
Indian Restaurant: Bombay Grill - Chamblee, GA (North side of Atlanta off of I-285)
I haven't done any posts recently on Indian restaurants as I've not been on the road as much as I usually am. Since I was out to dinner the other night at one of my favorite Indian Restaurants in the Atlanta area, the Bombay Grill , I thought it was time
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Friday, October 24, 2008 7:00 AM
Time To Reboot - Lenox Mall in Atlanta, GA
Thought this was an amusing picture. I was driving past my local mall the other night and saw the information display showing their system has just finished running CHKDSK, successfully I might add, the C: volume is CLEAN!!! OK folks, its time to
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 7:00 AM
Hand Made Lamborghini: Built In the Basement
This has got to be the most crazy or most impressive project I've ever seen. Mr. Ken Imhoff saw the movie Cannonball Run seventeen years ago, I saw that same movie and in my case it nearly took away my will to live J , in his case, he fell in love with
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Monday, October 20, 2008 7:00 AM
How To: Network Your Workgroup Computers
Whether you're configuring a home or a small office workgroup, if you have Windows XP and Windows Vista machines in the workgroup you might have had problems getting them to see each other and access shared resources. This short screencast will explain
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Friday, October 17, 2008 7:00 AM
Drought in the South: Lake Hartwell on the Georgia/South Carolina Border
I was up in South Carolina with my daughter last weekend visiting with my ex-in-laws at their condo on the lake. I hadn't been up in a few months and was shocked at how low the lake had dropped. They had been out of town for a few weeks during which time
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Monday, October 13, 2008 7:00 AM
A Big Mac and Wireless Access Please: McDonalds Internet Lounge
Last week I was looking for a quick bite early one evening and decided for some reason to go to McD's. I don't know why, maybe it was a burger and fries craving and I just didn't want to drive anywhere. It's probably the first time I've been to one in
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 9:54 AM
Congress Moves To Safeguard Laptops - vnunet.com
Looks like Congress is trying to get the law changed regarding search and seizure of peoples laptops coming back into the country. I didn't know, and I'm sure most of us didn't, that "..the government could demand the password to their laptop, hold it
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:32 PM
Try the Automatic Translator to See My Blog in Your Language!!!!
Just added the Translator Add-In to my blog. See the Translator button on the left, just above my TechNet Subscription Discount button. Simply click on " Translator " and you get a selection of languages in the drop-down menu. Select your desired language
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 12:41 PM
Wi-Fi May Help College Students Get Better Grades -- Wi-Fi -- InformationWeek
Interesting article on how students expect wireless connectivity at the college or university that they attend. There's a quote in the article that says "Young adults expect access to information with unprecedented immediacy" that really resonates with
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Friday, September 26, 2008 7:00 AM
Windows Home Server Toolkit V1
The Windows Home Server Toolkit is a collection of tools that help you troubleshoot issues with Windows Home Server. The toolkit has the following components: The Error Reporting tool collects log files from your home computer and sends them to Microsoft.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 8:00 AM
Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Home Computer Backup and Restore
This Technical Brief describes how you can you use your Windows Home Server to automatically do daily backups all of your home computers, up to 10 of them. Obviously you'll need a decent amount of disk space on the server to do this but what you'll
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 8:00 AM
Windows Home Server Technical Brief for Remote Access
Following on from yesterdays post about Home Networking with Windows Home Server, I thought this Technical Brief on how to remotely access your system would be useful. The thing is I'm not just talking about you remotely accessing the shared
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