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Cisco UCS Blade Chassis and Fabric Interconnects (6120s)
Sunday, July 10th, 2011 | Author:

Everywhere I have ever worked has been a Dell, Cisco and Microsoft shop. We have used Dell for our servers, Cisco for our networking equipment and Microsoft for our OS and a lot of our other software. This is a common model among a lot of Medium to Large businesses but I truly feel that Cisco is changing that model to a Cisco and Microsoft shop with their UCS blade chassis. I didn’t know a whole lot about the UCS blade chassis until I was able to actually work with one and see what it was capable of. In this article below I will go over what Cisco UCS is, the benefits, and some of the problems.

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Changing your MAC Address in Windows Vista
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 | Author:

For those of you who do not know what a MAC address is, it is the burned in address that every networking piece of equipment has that is unique. No two pieces of equipment should every have the same MAC address. There are many reasons someone might want to change the MAC address of the network card or wireless card. Maybe they are trying to connect to someone’s wireless network that only allows certain MAC addresses. You can also change your MAC address to test your own security settings, and even DHCP settings. So there are many reasons why you might want to change your MAC address.

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How To Reset a Symbol AP 5131
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | Author:

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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Finding Serial Ports on Linux
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | Author:

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.

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Formatting a USB Drive Using Ubuntu
Saturday, January 16th, 2010 | Author:

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.

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Adding a Local Printer with the Run As Command
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009 | Author:

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.

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Shutdown a local or remote computer with Shutdown.exe
Saturday, November 21st, 2009 | Author:

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.

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Building your Own PC
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | Author:

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.

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Defragging My Computer
Friday, August 28th, 2009 | Author:

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…

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Physical Security for your Network
Sunday, August 16th, 2009 | Author:

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.

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