Windows add/remove programs windows components error caused by service pack 3 and nLite.

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As long as I’ve been in IT, users have demanded the capability to email files. It is tremendously convenient but leaves much to be desired for IT personnel in charge of messaging systems.
Typically email attachment sizes are limited. Users complain when attempting to email huge spread sheets or media content if they are denied due [...]

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Anonymous browsing with Tor and Privoxy.

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This is one of the funnier videos I’ve seen in a long, long time. I got a very well needed laugh from it. If you’ve ever worked in IT, you’ll enjoy it.

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Does this mean it is SLOW memory?

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This is a typical Microsoft weird issue you might spend weeks trying to figure out and it is as easy as un checking a check box.
Problem: When connected to my internal LAN via VPN client, or through IPSec tunnel I can’t upload FTP files to my internal FTP server. Additionally, when trying to access external [...]

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Symptom: I’m running Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon on my IBM X31 laptop. I use DHCP locally and two local Microsoft DNS servers for my private domain, socci.local I try to ping my local hosts: server1.socci.local, server2, etc… in all cases I receive “unknown host”. I can ping other domains. nslookup resolves the ip addresses correctly [...]

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I don’t really talk about gear or gadgets much unless something about them is just so impressive, or so disappointing that it motivates me to do so.
I like to maintain good security practices in my personal as well as my work computing environments. I also enjoy being able to provide myself and the networks I [...]

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One of our developers was concerned today that the logs/backup drive on his SQL server was running low on space. This seemed like a perfect opportunity to throw a script together that does the following:
1. Enumerates (or singles out) each drive on the server
2. Determines the free space on those drives
3. Returns the result
This was [...]

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Disaster, recovery and contingency planning is the biggest task we on the infrastructure side of things are focused on right now.
This initiative got a little bit of needed push this past summer when a 100 year old steam pipe burst in front of our office building forcing us out, with no access whatsoever to our [...]

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