Symbol is a large company when it comes to technology products and even wireless devices. Symbol offers a more affordable alternative to Cisco while still including some of the functionality of Cisco products. Symbol like Cisco and unlike Netgear or the Linksys models does not have a switch on the back to allow you to simply reset the wireless to factory defaults. Link Cisco equipment you have to have physical access to the wireless to reset it if you have forgotten your password. Here we will step you through reseting a Symbol AP 5131 Access Point.
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If you have bought a computer in the last couple of years then most likely it did not come with any COM ports on it. But you can purchase these really nice USB to serial connections that work great. Sometime however when you plug one into a linux computer it will pick an random unused COM port and you don’t know which one. I personally use PuTTY and I need to know the exact port in order for the serial connection to work.
Ubuntu is a very powerful Linux Operating System as many of you know who read my blogs and articles that I am a big Linux user and I try to do everything in Linux before I would ever break down and do it in Windows. Well here is some information I thought you might find interesting about formatting a USB drive within Ubuntu.
One common problem I seem to find is that I would like to do an administrative task on a users workstation but I don’t want to log them out. Well I recenlty came across this problem when installing a local printer on a users workstation. With normal user rights you can only install a Network printer.
Shutdown.exe is included in pretty much any recent version of the Windows OS including Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and 7. Shuftdown.exe is a great program that can be used by system administrators to shutdown local computers through a batch file or even shutdown remote machines or servers using different switches.
Most people have thought a one point or another that they want to build their own computer so that they can get a good computer for less expensive and get everything they want in a desktop computer. Building your own computer is not as hard or imtimidating and some people might think. You can purchase everything you from a single website and have it delivered to your home. In this article we will discuss bare bone kits.
Q: Mike, someone once told me that defragging your computer will make it run faster. Is this true and if so how do I defrag my computer?
A: Well your friend is correct to an extent. Defragging your hard drive will speed up your computer if you have a lot of fragmented files…
Network security comes in many forms and most people think of network security as firewalls, routers, and anti-virus for computers. Where those are all crucial parts of network security there is a part of network security that a lot of people don`t think about, “Physical Security”. Physical security is the physical act of stopping an unauthorized user from using a computer. It doesn`t matter how up to date your virus scanner is, or how well your firewall works, if someone physically accesses your KVM for your servers then they have full access to everything. Here are five tips that can help you better secure your network.
In my opinion the DVR is the best invention for the TV since the remote control, with the remote control you don`t have to get up to change channels and with the DVR you don`t even have to be home to watch your show. Depending on the software you choose you can setup your own DVR any way you want and you are only limited by the size of the hard drive in the computer.
About three years ago I went to dual monitors on my computer at work and I will tell you that I will never go back to one monitor again. I have since even put two monitors on my computer at home. As I write this article I am a little disappointed because I only have one monitor on my laptop. But then again dual monitors on a laptop would kind of defeat it`s mobile nature. Setting dual montiors or even three monitors if very easy and doesn`t require much knowledge of computers.

