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May 2005 - Posts

Why am I paying to learn this all in school?

posted Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:03 PM by andy
The TCP/IP Guide is rather impressive.  It covers everything from PPP Frames to SMTP.  Someone explain to me why I'm paying to learn this material... The TCP/IP Guide -- Table of Contents Read More
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Novell Public Service Announcent Part 2

posted Monday, May 30, 2005 10:40 PM by andy
Novell likes to make us all think that we will never have to upgrade to any newer versions of linux...this just in from http://www.kernel.org ...seriously Novell let's be realistic: commit c27d379fe5e7a0709fdb63eeaec5c7c848747d8atree 663a18804af8e66287bd8411e4e54c241027d146parent Read More
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SFC...an indispensable tool

posted Monday, May 30, 2005 1:53 PM by andy
If ever you encounter a server or workstation that is just acting plain weird I highly recomend running Microsoft's SFC.exe utility on the machine.  It doesn't take long at all and can save tremendous amounts of time and headaches.  Here is a KB article Read More
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Novell Public Service Announcent

posted Sunday, May 29, 2005 1:20 PM by andy
Novell recently released a rather witty  "Public Service Announcement" in its attempt to gain NT users who have recently been left w/o support.  Personally, I don't understand why any IT Manager would (in their right mind) be running NT anymore.  Read More
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SBS 2003 SP1 Install Experiences.

posted Saturday, May 28, 2005 11:43 AM by andy
I'm upgrading an SBS 2003 server to SP1 today.  This post will serve as a list of things I've run into and what I had to do to solve them. 28 May 2005 11:48 AM CST: My first major gripe is that after downloading the SBS SP1 install file Read More
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Pre 1985 Video Game Character

posted Saturday, May 28, 2005 9:55 AM by andy
I am Mr Do. I am sedentary by nature, enjoying passive entertainment, eating when the mood takes me, and playing with my food. I try to avoid conflict, but when I'm angered, I can be a devil - if you force me to fight, I will crush you. With apples. Read More
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Group Policy Security Filtering

posted Saturday, May 28, 2005 7:41 AM by andy
I too have often been asked and asked myself "How do you apply a GPO to a certain security group?".  Although not completely obvious, the answer is rather simple. The LazyAdmin has provided a great little How-To complete with screen shots. Read More
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Computing Machinery and Intelligence...a nice printable version

posted Friday, May 27, 2005 12:43 PM by andy
It took me a while to find a printable (IE: w/o graphics, black foreground and white background, etc.) version of Turing's paper  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" in which he sets forth his famous Turing Test.  So for anyone else out Read More
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This thing works w/ firefox?!

posted Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:49 AM by andy
I haven't posted in a while b/c I've been trying to figure out a decent way of posting via OS X 10.4...ecto doesn't like community server and MarsEdit doesn't have a rich text editor.  I had gotten used to the fact that with the last version of Read More
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OSI: Phrases to help with memorization

posted Monday, May 16, 2005 4:36 PM by andy
Here is a great site that is full of succint quick reference information on the OSI Model. My favorite are the phrases designed to help you memorize the layers in the model: "Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away" another good one is "All People Seem Read More
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Goban...my new addiction

posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:41 PM by andy
The game of Go is something I've wanted to get better at for a quite a while Andrew Baran Normal Andrew Baran 1 2005-05-03T17:41:00Z 2005-05-03T17:44:00Z 1 Positive Vision, Inc. 1 1 11.257 Read More
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iPod Car Adapter

posted Tuesday, May 03, 2005 8:42 AM by andy
I finally purchased my first car on Friday! Wahoo!  I bought a used 2000 Toyota Solara.  Anyways onto the real reason for this post... I've been looking at what my options are for hooking my ipod up to the car's stereo. I need something Read More
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