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How to keep your personal data safe

Everybody knows they should be backing up their personal data, but nobody does it. Here’s some simple and straightforward steps to actually doing it. Continue reading

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How to build a business infrastructure in an hour using cloud services

Lately, the IT world has been abuzz with talk of “cloud computing”, “cloud services”, “cloud storage”, and pretty much everything else having to do with clouds. In an earlier post I talked about some of the risks of using these … Continue reading

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What's all the noise about VoIP, anyway?

What’s all the noise about VoIP? In short, it’s the way we’ll all talk on the telephone in a few years, so you’d better learn a bit about it! Read the rest of the article to get started. Continue reading

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Is your data safe in the SAAS cloud?

Data stored in online “cloud” or “SAAS” applications is necessarily well protected. It’s important to understand the risks of using these applications and protect yourself as much as possible. Continue reading

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What is Network Attached Storage, anyway?

Network Attached Storage, or NAS. You’ll see a lot of storage industry pros debating about what it really is, and why their flavor of NAS is better than their competitors.The term NAS comes from the fact that originally a NAS allowed “storage devices” which speak SCSI to be attached to a “network”, speaking ethernet. But really then, what is it? Continue reading

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New Location

I’ve moved the this blog from work to my own site in preparation for decommissioning some systems. Hopefully everything will follow, as I’ve got a bunch of permanent redirects in place. If not, http://erik.labianca.org/blog is my new official location.

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Windows Print Spooler Hangups

I know, it seems obvious… but when you’ve got one of those stupid print jobs stuck in the queue and they won’t go away… using the services manager to restart the print spooler apparently a pretty effective remedy in many … Continue reading

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Oracle VM Manager on CentOS 5 i386 Install Notes

So everybody knows by now that Oracle just jumped into the virtualization fray with their new Oracle VM product. If you’ve been under a rock, go to the oracle website to check it out. Given that I’m cheap and currently … Continue reading

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LGA 775 Replacement Mounting Clips

I’ve been trying to find these blasted mounting clips for the stock intel socket lga775 heatsink/fan units for the better part of the last month. If you’ve ever tried to install them, or even worse, remove the heatsink after a … Continue reading

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Facebook

So I’ve been following the Scobleizer every now and again via Google Reader, and he just won’t stop going off about facebook. I signed up a while back, but without a community and not finding anybody on there I knew, … Continue reading

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