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Archive for the ‘Help Me’ Category

June 27th, 2008

Big or small, we do it all

Why, even the big dogs (read: companies) still have very “small” IT departments. No, I don’t mean they have little people or even a small number of people — they do have a small-group feeling, though. Having recently switched from a company of a few thousand to one of tens of thousands of […]

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June 12th, 2008

How secure is too secure? Oh yeah, this is it.

I came across a great post over at Vitalsecurity.org the other day (part of the awesome Security Bloggers Network) about when security goes too far. RapidShare is a great solution for sharing large amounts of data. It’s ad and premium-user supported and allows for an unlimited amount of bandwidth (free users have 100MB […]

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June 4th, 2008

Keeping it simple all the time

I recently came across Adocu.com - blogging gone nano through a good friend and while the product that they are proposing, Twitter with only one word, sounds strange, the underlying concept makes a lot of sense. Why do we bog ourselves down with so many words? Technical support could take a lesson from […]

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June 3rd, 2008

Patience is a virtue

Please, keep the stories rolling in. This is yet another bothered IT admin reporting:
Don’t yell and don’t swear, if you want me to take your request seriously and not dump it at the bottom of my list of things to do then talk to me professionally. I have things to do and you have […]

By Jesse -- 0 comments

May 26th, 2008

A new way of thinking

This is my first post on That Damn PC and I’m happy to be here. I’ve spent my life tinkering with computers, blowing up electronic equipment and picking on the end-users at all of my IT jobs… Now I want to give back. I started blogging over the past couple of years […]

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April 15th, 2008

Social Networking may help you solve your hardware problems

PC World writes: “Every day in business, you’re either looking for a solution to a problem or you want to be the solution to somebody else’s problem. In an effort to achieve those two goals, we network. Online social networking has become the de rigueur method used today–and sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn offer […]

By Kiven -- 0 comments

March 3rd, 2008

Booting Problems?

It happens to even the best of us. You power up your PC and, for one reason or another, it won’t boot into its operating system.
The most frightening scenario is when you press the power button and nothing happens at all. No lights go up, no fans spin, and you don’t hear the familiar chatter […]

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September 5th, 2007

How to Recover (Almost) Anything

It’s amazing how fast a single keystroke or mouse click can change your life. One false move, and boom! An hour’s, day’s, or even lifetime’s work can slip away into digital oblivion. But not everything that disappears is lost forever. These tips will help you retrieve the seemingly irretrievable: from files long ago removed from […]

By Kiven -- 0 comments

March 27th, 2007

Video: How to upgrade your system RAM

Sure, you have read the articles about upgrading your system’s RAM but want to see how it really works? check out this video.
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March 27th, 2007

How to Improve Your WiFi Network’s Performance

Wondering how to increase the performance of your Wifi network? How can you extend the range of your home Wi-Fi network?
First, make sure you are getting the most out of your current Wi-Fi router: Mount it in a central location in your house, preferably high on a wall; make sure that other 2.4-GHz devices such […]

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