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- Bone2 (exe)
- Take drugs in an infinate space random world, puzzle your way through this shooter type game looking for Nerds to fight, there is a wide selection of drugs available for to you to use while you follow the Hitlist, accumulate money and drugs every time you play Bone 2. Beat...
- Tags: Drug, Nicholas Nel, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2008-06-03
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- The Spa at Nicholas Michaels Gets Colorful Makeover With Lexmark C500n
- The Spa at Nicholas Michaels is a full-service salon and day spa that offers its discerning customers an array of unique treatments and products, including some of newest skin care technologies. Printing marketing materials such as brochures, product labels and customer letters had become expensive. At first, the Spa sent...
- Tags: Lexmark International Inc., Spa, Printers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing
- Case studies
- Nicholas Financial Greenlights Managed Private IP
- Nicholas Financial has carved out a niche in the automobile financing industry. The company wanted to reduce downtime with more reliable communications support and allow IT staff to focus on core business. The challenge was to enhance business continuity with effective disaster recovery plan and reduce vulnerability from IT employee...
- Tags: MPLS, Network, Verizon Communications Inc., Private IP, Nicholas Financial, Verizon Business Managed Wide Area Network Services, Networking, Network Technology, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Case studies 2006-05-01
- Rescuing a failed domain controller: Disaster recovery in action
- When a Windows Server 2003 domain controller went belly up, network manager Louis Nel discovered firsthand that disasters don't happen in predictable ways. The situation was complicated by a series of failures (restoring AD from backup failed; transferring the FSMO roles from the server failed; seizing the roles resulted in...
- Tags: Domain Controller, Disaster Recovery, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware
- Download resources 2006-06-12
- RPC service configuration causes serious problems following a Windows XP SP2 install
- It started out innocently enough: Installing Windows XP Service Pack 2 on about 50 PCs in two computer labs. Network manager Louis Nel was confident that he and his staff were sufficiently familiar with SP2 quirks and well prepared for the task. But even though the process went smoothly...
- Tags: Network, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Nel, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows, RPC, Operating Systems, Software, Networking
- Download resources 2006-08-21
- Create a bootable WinXP CD slipstreamed with SP2 and hotfixes
- On 01/17/2007 Tech Republic posted an article by Louis Nel regarding the creating of a bootable Windows XP DC incorporating SP2 and the various MS hotfixes. I have rigorously followed the instructions from Mr. Nel. Regrettable when I follow the instructions I am invariably met with failure. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, smg@..., Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP, CD
- Discussion threads 2007-03-28
- Monitoring Browser Activity
- We have a Windows SBS Premium with 38 users. Until now we have had a very relaxed and basic internet usage policy - No porn, No racist sites, personal use in personal time etc. It has come to light that this relaxed policy is being abused (surprise surprise!!). Is there...
- Tags: ISA, isa 2000, Microsoft IIS Server, monitoring, neil.randall@..., Nel, networking, Web
- Discussion threads 2006-08-31
- Take steps now to prepare for a system failure
- A little preparation can go a long way toward saving you time and trouble during the nerve-wracking initial stages of disaster recovery. See how to get squared away ahead of time so that you can bounce back more quickly from a system meltdown. by Louis Nel
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Louis Nel, screenshots, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- Image galleries 2007-09-10
- Photos: Easy does it with Asustek's 'Eee PC'
- With "easy" in mind, Asustek and Intel have teamed on a 7-inch, low-cost notebook that could even be a challenge to Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC.
- Tags: AsusTek Computer, notebook, photograph, Intel Corp., PC
- Image galleries 2007-06-07
- Take steps now to prepare for a system failure
- A little preparation can go a long way toward saving you time and trouble during the nerve-wracking initial stages of disaster recovery. Network manager Louis Nel offers some strategies for getting squared away ahead of time so that you can bounce back more quickly from a system meltdown.This download is...
- Tags: Disaster Recovery, Strategy, Data Management, Management
- Download resources 2006-07-24
- 10 things you can do to give old servers a second life
- Some of your old servers may be ready for retirement, but others can still play a useful role in your shop. Network manager Louis Nel suggests various ways to turn a potential doorstop into a useful piece of equipment. For example, you might turn an old server into a...
- Tags: Servers, Hardware
- Download resources 2006-11-13
- OLPC sued by Nigerians for patent infringement
- In an ironic twist of events, OLPC's Nicholas Negroponte has received a letter from Lagos Analysis Corporation LANCOR, a U.S.-based Nigerian-owned company that claims the XO laptop infringed on its multilingual keyboard technology. Excerpt from Marketwire: LANCOR's lawsuit alleges that OLPC purchased two KONYIN Multilingual Keyboard...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child Project, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-27
- Create a superscope to solve the problem of dwindling IP addresses
- If your organization is growing faster than you can supply IP addresses, you don't have to fear that you might soon be running on empty--a superscope can come to the rescue. A superscope is a versatile, cost-effective, and easy-to-use solution when you're running out of IP addresses on a network....
- Tags: IP, IP Address, Superscope, Network Technology, Networking
- Download resources 2006-10-31
- Intel joins OLPC board
- After their previous war of words with the OLPC foundation, Intel have show a sharp change of approach.Back in May founder of OLPC foundation Nicholas Negroponte said Intel ‘should be ashamed of itself'. Intel had apparently been selling its entry level Classmate laptop to gain a share of the emerging...
- Tags: General, mobile technology
- Blog posts 2007-07-21
- Consultant wins Peer Directory contest
- With the chance to win a free book or CD from TechRepublic's catalog by updating a Peer Directory listing during the first week of September, more than 1,600 TechRepublic members took us up on the offer. From the e-mails we received from members telling us what they had updated, we...
- Tags: E-mail, Paul Baldwin, Peer Directory
- Technical articles 2003-09-26
- Role-specific backups boost the odds of an effective recovery
- A role-specific backup involves backing up certain server roles separately. Doing so will make life much easier if disaster strikes and you have to restore one or more DCs. This approach simplifies restoration and can be a lifesaver when recovery from a normal tape backup is problematic or not an...
- Tags: Recovery, Role, Backups, Servers, Hardware
- Download resources 2006-07-17
- Integrating IT With Business Goals Is Only Marginally Easier Than Reaching the Summit of Everest
- The IT industry has been going through a period of 'Soul-searching' over how effective it has been in delivering business advantage. For years, McKinsey and Gartner have been publishing articles that have questioned how well IT is managed. What made this a public debate was an article by Nicholas Carr...
- Tags: Information Technology, Fujitsu Ltd., IT Industry, Carr, Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Create a bootable WinXP CD slipstreamed with SP2 and hotfixes
- Since Microsoft released Windows XP SP2, there have been more than 120 hotfixes and updates. So even if you've slipstreamed your copy of WinXP with SP2, you could be stuck applying patch after patch for each new install. Here's a much better option: Slipstream your copy of WinXP with SP2,...
- Tags: CD, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Download resources 2007-01-17
- OLPC: Microsoft to the rescue?
- I'm sure many of you will remember the One Laptop Per Child project OLPC. The project has been through some difficult times. The so called $100 laptop actually costs $188. Nicholas Negroponte could have inadvertently doomed the OLPC project by setting a target price of $100 on the XO laptop. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- New book says IT departments heading for extinction
- Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, maintains that in 10 to 20 years, the traditional IT department will be a thing of the past. According to Carr, "The idea that every company needs its own IT department is dying." ...
- Tags: Software-as-a-service, Information Technology, Department, Strategy, Management, Toni Bowers
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
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