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4 Free Must Have Android Apps for Sysadmins

May 15, 2010
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System Administrators/Engineers have a lot of responsibilities. The top priority is uptime. There are a number of tools we rely on that help us stay on top of our networks health but we can’t always have a laptop/netbook strapped to our chest. Now these days we can do a lot of things on our [...]

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10+ Outstanding USB Flash Drive Concepts & Designs

November 16, 2009
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USB Flash Drives killed the Floppy Disk. Why? Well they are smaller, faster, have thousands of times more capacity, and are more durable and reliable due to their lack of moving parts. But the best part of the whole USB Flash Drive phenomenon is the fact that unlike Floppies, they [USB FD] come in so [...]

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10 Applications that can help you with Personal Information Management

November 9, 2009
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Lets face it, Post-It notes are great and convenient for jotting down notes, ideas, todo’s etc. But at the same time they can really suck and become totally impractical (when it comes to trying to find that one post-it). Personal Information Management (PIM) is very important to me.  Any given day I can have up [...]

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20+ Useful Cheat Sheets for Sysadmins

November 6, 2009
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The great folks over at Packet Life opened up their Library and provided 24 Cheat Sheets that all Sysadmins could appreciate. They kindly break the cheat sheets into categories (and in separate PDFs) that include:

Protocols
Applications
Reference
Syntax
Technologies
Misc.

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Upgrading: 7 Money Saving Secrets some IT Vendors don’t want you to know

September 20, 2009
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With Windows 2000 Professional becoming close to ‘end of life’ (March 2010) it is about time you go and talk to your Head Hancho(s) about UPGRADING (probably their least favorite word…unless it is for him/her).

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