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Get It Fixed: How many innocent pc users fall for this trap?
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Network or PC broken? Wednesday, July 29, 2015. How many innocent pc users fall for this trap? Another not really new but new enough phone scam is going around. The companies and callers could sound very legitimate using all the correct buzz words but they are just tyring to fool you into giving them your credit card. The scam goes like this. After a couple of days a. They would then charge your credit card again. You have now be scammed twice likely by the same company. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS. I am co-own...
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Get It Fixed: January 2013
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Network or PC broken? Wednesday, January 30, 2013. What is the URL for a CentOS 6 netinstall? This one may be just a reminder for myself when I forget but it may help someone else as well. If you download the CENTOS 6 Linux netinstall image it will prompt you for a URL to the install files. Here are the links. For 32 bit: http:/ mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/. For 64 bit: http:/ mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86 64/. Links to this post. Klok 2 - Updated Asana connector now available. After the above...
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Get It Fixed: Restore Dell Studio 1737 Laptop to Factory Settings
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Network or PC broken? Thursday, June 11, 2009. Restore Dell Studio 1737 Laptop to Factory Settings. Well I had what is appearing to be a hardware driver problem get the best of me. All seem to get me know where. I also used a program called Process Explorer (by Sysinternals) to try and track it down. Process explorer showed that the cpu was hung on Hardware interupts. I have listed the steps to recover the pc back to the factory state in case anyone else has this problem. Click Dell Factory Image Restore.
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Get It Fixed: How to change VNC Server password on Linux
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Network or PC broken? Wednesday, May 20, 2009. How to change VNC Server password on Linux. I was recnetly asked how to reset a password for VNC Server on a Linux machine. For those that would also like to know here is how I did it. You can either connect to the machine remotely over an ssh program like putty or you can do this directly from the terminal. Open up a command prompt for the user that you have vnc server running as. November 20, 2009 at 8:22 AM. Thanks that was very helpfull. I read your post...
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Get It Fixed: Useful Linux Command - with output redirection
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Network or PC broken? Monday, July 27, 2015. Useful Linux Command - with output redirection. This one has been around for a while but in case you have not come across (and in case I forget myself) here is another useful Linux command:. This is a simple way to get a list of files in a certain folder and rather than write them to the screen it writes them to a text file that could be used in another script perhaps. The above command will create a simple list of the file names in a particular directory.
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Get It Fixed: Google Chromecast
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Network or PC broken? Tuesday, July 28, 2015. I know there are many reviews for this out there already but whats one more :). I recently picked up a Google Chromecast from Amazon. See the link below. I believe I paid $35 for it. If you don't know what the Chromecast is, it is a small device that you can plug into an HDMI port on a TV and then "cast" content to it from various pc apps as well as phone or tablet screens. I have used this on vacation to watch content from my tablet as well. Here are a coupl...
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Get It Fixed: February 2013
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Network or PC broken? Monday, February 18, 2013. How to make an RDP session full screen. This one always bothers me and I never remember the key combo so I will post it here for myself as well as others. This key combo will make an RDP session full screen. Once I open an Remote Desktop window and becomes "not full screen" it sometimes may not go back to full screen even though you maximize the window,. To make an RDP session window full screen again use the below key combo. Links to this post. Links to t...
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Get It Fixed: What is using all of my disk space?
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Network or PC broken? Wednesday, July 29, 2015. What is using all of my disk space? What is using all of my disk space? This is a question I get asked often. While the answer can vary greatly depending on what you do with your computer, the following app can show you in detail where the disk space is being used. Screen shot from Jam-Software website). While I do not recommend blindly deleting any files, this application may help you determine which folders to look at further. It Fixed by mcgraphix Inc.
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Get It Fixed: It Fixed it for me - Event ID 7031 - Source Service Control Manager
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Network or PC broken? Monday, November 2, 2009. It Fixed it for me - Event ID 7031 - Source Service Control Manager. I did come across a windows kb article that sounded somewhat similar but it didn't help in my case. The solution I found was fairly simple:. First I needed to stop the spooler service (which was already stopped and would not start ayway). Second I opened up a Windows Explorer window and browsed to C: WINDOWS System32 spool PRINTERS. I simply deleted all the files in this folder. I am co-ow...
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Get It Fixed: July 2015
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Network or PC broken? Friday, July 31, 2015. How do I include the date in a Windows Batch file? I have used this many time in Windows batch files. You can set any variable, in my example below called "thedate" to a substring of the computers date to produce only the numbers without any "/" in case this needs to be used in creating folder or file names. For my example I would like to use a script to create a photos folder with the date in the name:. Set thedate=%date: -4,4% date: 0,2% date: -7,2%. Second ...