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That Damn PC

Archive for the ‘Systems Administration’ Category

June 19th, 2008

Most used PC tool

I was looking at my Eee PC computer the other day and I was trying to figure what applications I should leave on there. I decided to ask you all what programs you might use on a daily basis. Then I decided I’d probably get answers like, “YouPorn and Firefox or my web […]

By Jesse -- 1 comment

May 29th, 2008

Look but don’t touch — The art of not unplugging

Look but don’t touch.
Touch, but don’t taste.
Taste, don’t swallow.

         –Al Pacino, The Devil’s Advocate
While this is one of my favorite quotes of all time, it fits perfectly into my next so-called rant and funny story. Windowsitpro.com had a great story about a university web site going down because someone took the X-box out of the […]

By Jesse -- 2 comments

September 16th, 2007

Use Pro Tools to Manage Your Small Network

As the “default” system administrator for your home or small-office network, you’re the person that everyone turns to when PCs contract a virus, can’t print, can’t connect to the Wi-Fi net, or basically when any pc related problem pops up. Dealing with setup problems is bad enough, but what if you’re also the person responsible […]

By Kiven -- 1 comment

September 12th, 2007

Get those MAC addresses

A MAC address, short for Media Access Control address, is a unique code assigned to most forms of networking hardware. This is a unique identifier specific to the network card inside the computer. The MAC address makes the host recognizable to and distinguishable from other hosts. Here’s how to find each and every MAC address […]

By Kiven -- 2 comments

April 26th, 2007

Use Multiple OS’es on the same system

Planning to run multiple OS’es on your system? Then check out Microsoft’s own Virtual PC software which allows you to (not surprisingly) run only windows 98 up to vista ultimate plus OS/2 Warp Version 4.
Use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run multiple operating systems at the same time on the same physical computer. Switch between […]

By Kiven -- 0 comments

July 24th, 2006

Samurize

Lifehacker turned me on to a nifty little tool today called Samurize. Samurize is a tool that will display the output of your command line wanderings to your desktop. The configuration is kind of convoluted but the app works really well. Reminds me of Linux on my box.
1. Right-click on the Samurize icon in your […]

By Aaron -- 0 comments

May 11th, 2006

Mixing Unix with Windows

There are a number of projects out there that attempt to bring the flexibility and features of Unix to Windows. Windows, comparitively speaking, is a very weak shell OS. By that I mean that while it has a lot of tools that are handy for Windows systems administrators, there are significantly more tools […]

By Aaron -- 3 comments

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