Category: Computers
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Making bootable USB Drives from ISO Images in Minutes with Rufus (Video)
Rufus – Create bootable USB drives the easy way Ever been stuck in a situation where you didn’t have a CD-ROM available and needed to install an OS? Rufus is a free tool that makes creating bootable USB drives from images incredibly fast and more importantly easy. In just a few minutes you can be…
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VMWare ESXi 5.1 Install and Basic Configuration, Dell PowerEdge 2950 GII (Video)
VMWare ESXi 5.1 Hypervisor VMWare ESXi 5.1 is a fantastic hyper-visor it’s lightweight, reliable, efficient, Linux based and on top of all of that free. Not only that but ESXi is also capable of running a myriad of different operating systems from Windows to Linux to BSD/Unix and so on, making it perfect for a…
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Dell PowerConnect 5324 – cable tips, basic setup and configuration via Putty
Dell PowerConnect 5324 After realizing that I had out grown most common 4 or 8 port switches, and wanting more control over the switch itself, I decided that a 24 port-gigabit switch was what I wanted. Any higher end networking devices can easily add up VERY quickly, but that wasn’t in my budget for this…
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Must Have Software For Any Windows Machine
Whether you bought a new PC or are re-imaging an old one, there’s always those few pieces of software that you must have on every computer, the essentials when building a Windows machine. Things like plug-Ins, browsers and pdf readers. I thought it’d be useful to share my list of must have installs that I…
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DIY – 8GB Solid State Drive for $35
Introduction: For my lab setup I run a VMWare ESXi 4 server based on a Intel Core 2 Quad setup. The ESXi server software has a relatively light foot print and doesn’t require much space at all for the OS install. Because of this, installing it on a hard drive is usually a waste of…
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How-To: Installing Unsigned Drivers on Windows 7 x64
Intro In this video I show how to install unsigned drivers on Windows 7 x64. Starting with Windows Vista x64, Windows requires that all drivers be digitally signed. This can be a good thing, like to preventing the installation of malicious drivers for example. However, what if the drivers aren’t malicious and you trust them?…
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