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Schedule an inventory on Backup exec
Some tape drives cannot work out for themselves what tape is in the library or slot when inserted, so you have to tell it what is there by running an inventory. If, like me, you are sometimes too busy to remember to run this inventory, you will know your back up can fail as it is asking for media. Particularly bad when running a full backup over a weekend. Scheduling an inventory so your tape … Read entire article »
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Easy ways to become a Web developer
If you’re an newbie in web development and if you want to “enter” on the ground, then PHP programming is the best language to learn. There are several ways to learn to become a web developer, but, I think this approach is more logical. First, as a web developer we need to learn HTML. It is easy to learn through websites which will make you to learn from the basics. My clear advice is to work first on notepad before you enter into the coding environment such as Dreamweaver. Encryption in notepad will make you to learn languages which are for essential level. It is known that anyone can make use of WYSIWYG application. Second, it is essential for all web developers to configure the development environment. Most of PHP development is … Read entire article »
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Why is a CCNA Certification worth having?
To remain competitive in the IT industry and to ensure an ascending direction of your career in your IT profession, you have to be several steps ahead of your contemporaries. One of the easiest way to boost your career path is to find what is in demand in the market today. Today, networking is one of the top demands of the market. Having a verified qualification could gain you more opportunities for a good pay. … Read entire article »
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Top 5 Reasons to get a VMware Certification
VMware provides customer-proven virtualization solutions that reduces complexity in information technology. It takes pride that of its virtualization software and its ability to respond to all types and sizes of organizations’ network needs. Its software provides a virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system such as for a video adapter, a network adapter and hard disk adapters. Fairly new in the IT industry, VMware was founded and established in 1998 but, has already dominated the market on cloud infrastructure – a computing mechanism that delivers computer infrastructure environment as a service. The technology apparently reduces cost in investment of hardware and software as it uses the internet for its network access. This eliminates the need to install and run applications on the individual computers, and simplifies maintenance and support. … Read entire article »
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Free JP2 JPEG 2000 plugin converter for Adobe Photoshop
If you need a converter for JP2 JPEG-2000 then you can get one from this site: http://www.fnordware.com/j2k/ They offer a free plugin for photoshop and adobe after effects. … Read entire article »
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Linux file permissions explained
People who can access Linux files and folders if allowed, can fall into 3 specific categories: Owner – User who created the file/folder Group – Specific Group of Users Public – Anyone else They can have none, some or all of the permissions below: r – Read permission. Whether the file may be read. w – Write permission. Whether the file may be written to or modified. x – Execute permission. Whether the file may be executed. Permissions are given in groups of … Read entire article »
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Clickheat heatmap to see where visitors click most on your site
We all want to get more clicks on our ads to gain revenue for the site but what is the best way to find out where to place the adverts so they perform their best? One simple way to do this is to use a Heatmap. Heatmaps are a piece of code that reports where people are clicking on your pages and much like a thermal camera, displays darker red colours in the hot spots … Read entire article »
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McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance 5.1 – Stop Outbound SMTP email being Spam Filtered.
We experienced the following issue after implementing the McAfee Appliance in front of our Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server. The inbound SMTP comes through the Appliance and the outbound SMTP is routed by the exchange server using SMART HOST back through the appliance. The McAfee Email and Web Security Appliance by default “we discovered”, also runs the spam filtering engines on our outbound mail and was then placing emails into quarantine. This then lead to external addresses being emailed quarantine digest reports that they shouldn’t have been sent and of course cant manage the quarantine interface anyway. After reading the McAfee manual and documentation for the appliance there was nothing that highlighted how to exclude your outbound email from the filters. We did consider adding all our domains to the Spam whitelist senders … Read entire article »
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Importing Outlook 2007 contacts into Nokia PC Suite for X6
PLEASE NOTE – THIS WORKS WITH THE IPHONE AND OTHER NOKIA AND SAMSUNG DEVICES The Problem If you have numerous Outlook contacts they don’t easily export in a format from Outlook 2007 to be able to import into Nokia PC Suite. The PC suite only accepts txt, csv and vcf (v card). If you have loads of contacts you can’t export the contacts in one go by doing select all and exporting to vcard, the only option you … Read entire article »
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How to add ITV HD channel to Sky+ HD
By default, Sky+ HD does not have ITV HD avaialble in its list of channels so you have to add it manually. Go into Settings > Sky+ Setup > Add Channels Enter the channel details as below: Frequency (GHz): 11.427 Polarisation: H Symbol Rate (Mbaud): 27.5 FEC: 2/3 Then press the Yellow button to search for channels. It will do a scan and then display a list of channels it has found. ITV1HD is named 10510 Highlight it and then choose store channels. when you want to watch it you’ll need to go into the Other Channels section and press select. You can repeat the process for the other channels it finds in the list when searching such as Freesat etc. … Read entire article »
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PS3 Millennium Bug Clock Fault on Playstation
Does anyone have a fix for the following yet? after I noticed my clock reset to 01/01/2000 I have lost all my online high scores on Call of duty. Also some of my saved game data inst working? Regards Craig @ http://www.catforumchat.com … Read entire article »
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Earn from your website with SpeedPPC
Its easy to create a site, chances are if you are reading this you already have one and have stubled upon my site for whatever reason. One of the advantages of having a website is being able to earn money from it while offering your services/information or whatever else you use your site for. We’ve all heard of Google Adwords and affiliate schemes but the key to success if converting the hits to your site to click on your ads or affliate links. Order your Copy of Speed PPC There are tools to do this which increase your traffic rankings. One being bounced around at the moment is called SpeedPPC. It comes in a number of parts but is a part of a theory which can be exploited to produce fantastic results. Whether … Read entire article »
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Replacing a mouse trackpoint pointstick cover
Known as a trackpoint or laptop nipple, these bits of rubber are remarkably simple to get replaced and can make a world of difference if you use this centre stick a lot. Just a small amount of dust can make it move when you are not touching it and if its worn out, its even worse. Below is a guid on how to get it replaced. You’ll need to get yourself a replacement rubber and a pair of tweezers or long nosed pliers. As with any hardware work carried out on a machine, shut down your laptop and remove from all power sources. With your tweezers, remove the exisiting pointing stick. Now once the existing one is removed, grab the new one with the tweezers and insert onto laptop keyboard. It is possible on … Read entire article »
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Cab files, Apache and Windows Mobile
Downloading a Cab file to a PDA from an Apache webserver gives a load of text instead of a prompt asking to ‘Save As’. To rectify you need to either add a .htaccess file to the webserver if there is not one there. If there is you need to add the following line of text: AddType application/x-cab-compressed cab Once that is in the .htaccess file the files will download properly. … Read entire article »
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Home CCTV security on the cheap
Keeping your property safe is always important to us. What would be even better is if we could be alerted something is wrong when we are not at home. This is very easily achievable at little cost and a little knowhow. Below is my guide on how to set up your premises for CCTV surviellance: {++++} You will need: A spare PC (or a PC you can plug a PCI card into and leave on all the time to record. CCTV cameras. These are available for approx £20 each delivered. Shop around for the best features for the price: 2 x video baluns per camera. These will convert the camera and card ends from BNC to Cat 5 cable. Cat 5 cable – varying lengths depending on how far your camera will need to run. A CCTV … Read entire article »
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Install Webmin on Ubuntu
For the latest version visit www.webmin.com and amend the shortcut in step 2 to the relevant version. Get logged into your server via SSH and use the following 3 commands: Step 1: cd /usr/src Step 2: wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.500_all.deb Step 3: rpm -i webmin-1.500-1.noarch.deb This will install Webmin to https://youripaddressordomain:10000 You may need to do the following steps if not successful: Run the following as some modules may not be installed: sudo apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl libmd5-perl If you get errors about it not finding these packages, then enable the universe repositories: sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list remove the # from the universe and multiverse lines and save. Then update the repository settings: sudo apt-get update Run the following to unpack & install: sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.500_all.deb … Read entire article »
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Install Webmin on CentOS
For the latest version visit www.webmin.com and amend the shortcut in step 2 to the relevant version. Get logged into your server via SSH and use the following 3 commands: Step 1: cd /usr/src Step 2: wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.470-1.noarch.rpm Step 3: rpm -i webmin-1.470-1.noarch.rpm This will install Webmin to https://youripaddressordomain:10000 … Read entire article »
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