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There are over 240 posts here about printing. When I think back over more than a quarter century of computer support, a lot of what I remember is printer problems. My wife's most common computer complaint from her XP machine? Her printer isn't working or is printing too small, too big..
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| Using Windows 8 in Parallels Desktop Mobile | 2012 10 | ||||
| - Knowing some keyboard shortcuts can help in using Windows 8 through the Parallels Mobile app. Too bad there are so many to memorize! - | |||||
| Windows 8 in Parallels Desktop | 2012 10 | ||||
| - Yesterday I upgraded my old Vista virtual machine to Windows 8. It was inexpensive, painless and surprisingly quick. - | |||||
| Transferring Linux or Mac Perl scripts to Windows Cygwin | 2012 10 | 2012/10/14 TonyLawrence | |||
| - There's usually some rewriting necessary when moving Linux or Mac Perl scripts to Windows. Here are some of the things to watch out for. - | |||||
| Kerio Connect Mail Server Configuration Guide | 2012 09 | ||||
| - Important things to know about Kerio Connect Mail Server configuration. Don't miss these settings and features! - | |||||
| Kerio Troubleshooting | 2012 05 | ||||
| - There are only a very few things that will completely prevent Kerio Mailserver from starting. Usually this would come from a confused or mangled configuration file, but there are other conditions that can cause Kerio to refuse to start. - | |||||
| Troubleshooting Outlook KOC problems on new Windows 7 machines | 2012 05 | 2012/05/04 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Troubleshooting can lead us down strange paths. Join me as we watch new Windows 7 machines act up after joining a domain. - | |||||
| Kerio Connect Mailserver version 7.3 | 2011 11 | ||||
| - Kerio Connect Mailserver version 7.3 is scheduled for release in early November 2011 and adds important features, including a few that I suggested and lobbied for earlier. - | |||||
| Is Microsoft about to shoot itself in the foot (or even its head) with Windows 8? | 2011 09 | 2011/09/30 RonCam | |||
| - That's a serious question. I don't claim to have an answer, of course, but I do think the answer very well could be 'Yes'. Windows 7 was released in October of 2009 and supposedly Windows 8 ('the biggest overhaul since Windows 95', according to some) will be coming out in 2012. That's just three years - well, six if you count poor Vista as a precursor to Windows 7. To a slightly befuddled consumer who has heard all about the growing pains of Vista and the peripheral and application incompatibilities that still vex Win 7 to at least some degree, it might look like Microsoft is throwing out a botched attempt too replace XP and is trying again with Windows 8. - | |||||
| 10 things - no, 11 things - you say that drive your computer tech person crazy | 2011 08 | 2011/09/20 anonymous | |||
| - Yes, of course people sometimes say or do silly things, even outright stupid things. We all do. Look me straight in the eye and tell me you have never done anything like that with a computer and I'll look you straight in the eye and tell you the same thing and then we'll both try not to laugh. - | |||||
| Basic Home Networking, Part 3, File and Printer Sharing | 2011 08 | ||||
| - The point of a computer network is sharing. You might not be sharing much, perhaps even only the Internet connection. If that's the end of it, you don't need much more than part one of this series, which deals with the setup of a basic small network. - | |||||
| Putting the wrong name on a Win 7 user profile | 2011 08 | 2011/08/25 NickBarron | |||
| - However, both of these new computer owners panicked at my suggestion. I explained that they just needed to cable up their new system; they claimed complete inability to do even that. Sigh. Yes, I know that this is mostly in their minds. It's a form of leaned helplessness. If they would just make a small effort, they probably could do this themselves, but they just stop and refuse to even try. It's too complicated, they are afraid that they might damage something or feel foolish. - | |||||
| Basic Home Networking - Part 2, wireless setup | 2011 08 | ||||
| - Often all that needs to be done is to tell your computer that you want to connect to a wireless network. It's not always that easy, but it certainly can be. However, even if it is that easy for you, you might still want to read the rest of this in case you have problems later. You also might want to read it because being "too easy" to get connected could mean that you are running some security risk and need to address that issue. - | |||||
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| Basic Home Networking - routers and switches | 2011 08 | 2011/08/16 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - Setting up a small office or home network used to be a fairly complicated task. Aside from the technical knowledge needed, there was expensive equipment to buy and specialized tools for wiring. That's all changed - the necessary equipment is cheap and readily available and it's all very easy to configu re. - | |||||
| A non-technical guide to understanding and fixing TCP/IP problems on a network | 2011 08 | 2011/08/14 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - The title is a bit incorrect in the .non-technical. claim, because we are dealing with a geekish subject here and I can't avoid being a little "techie". - | |||||
| Joe's computer turns 3 | 2011 07 | ||||
| - I'm really excited because soon I may get to run Linux! I have been hoping for that for years and had just about given up on the idea when they tried to install Windows 7 on my drive. - | |||||
| Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper | 2011 06 | 2011/06/18 Atra | |||
| - While I definitely have some complaints, this is fast. It's too bad it won't work on so many low end systems. - | |||||
| Slow Finder when browsing SMB Network Shares in Snow Leopard | 2011 04 | 2012/08/08 anonymous | |||
| - Mac OS X finder in Snow Leopard, when bound to Active Directory can be painfully slow at just listing files on a SMB share. - | |||||
| Do you really need a domain controller? | 2007 07 | 2013/02/09 Matt | |||
| - There are advantages to a Microsoft Domain Controller model. Centralized user control, fine grained resource access control: these are often useful and very helpful. - | |||||
| Creating pretty graphs with RRDTOOL | 2009 08 | ||||
| - The open source rrdtool project helps you create a graphical view of any statistic collected at regular intervals. - | |||||
| Map network drive, connect as different user to same Server | 2005 02 | 2011/11/02 anonymous | |||
| - How to map an XP network drive more than once even though XP doesn't want you to do that. - | |||||
| Virtual PC for Mac OS X | 2003 07 | ||||
| - This is a review of an ancient Virtual PC product and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| Mac Screen sharing is not just for Macs | 2008 01 | 2012/03/22 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Mac Screen Sharing can connect to any VNC host. That's Mac Screen Sharing connecting to a TightVNC server on my wife's Windows XP machine. - | |||||
| Backing up Windows machines using rsync and ssh | 2005 12 | ||||
| - Rsync and SSh aren't just for Unix and Linux: Windows and Mac can use these to backup data. - | |||||
| Terminal server, Remote Desktop, thin clients and all that | 2004 11 | ||||
| - No wonder people get confused. Lots of similar or related things, no end of licensing confusion, no end of general confusion. Let's try to cut through some of it. First, let's move back and look at the original Unix style multi-user model: dumb terminals, green screens (even if they were orange or white), the character based environment that all Windows folk loathe and disparage. How did that work? The application ran on the Unix server, and only sent characters back to the terminal, and the terminal only sent keystrokes to the Unix box. - | |||||
| Office on Terminal Server | 2006 06 | 2013/03/15 anonymous | |||
| - Installing Microsoft Office on terminal server - licensing issues - | |||||
| Tightvnc, Chicken of the VNC | 2003 10 | ||||
| - Reviews of TightVNC and Chicken of the VNC. VNC is "Virtual Network Computing" and is a crossplatform method of allowing remote access to desktops (Windows or Unix/Linux, Mac and others)). It is conceptually like using Terminal Services or PcAnywhere etc for Windows but is license free and of course capable of serving Linux/Unix machines also. - | |||||
| Dealing with Duplicate IP addresses | 2009 04 | 2011/11/13 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Duplicate IP's on a network is an interesting problem that has no completely satisfactory solution, especially when malicious intent is involved. Let's leave those intentional conditions for another day; here we'll look at what happens when an IP gets duped accidentally. - | |||||
| Cool Tools: Network View - a network node discovery tool | 2003 08 | 2012/04/13 AlVidetto | |||
| - Identifying addresses and open ports on a network, network node discovery tool. I'm not the only one who maintains this company's network. The operations guy is pretty capable and doesn't mind setting up PCs - he enjoys it. Well, between me and him we had lost track of PC, printers, WAPs, routers, more routers and such like that. We needed a network discovery tool and we found a great one by Michael Welschenbach at http://www.networkview.com/. - | |||||
| Copy pictures back to your camera | 2007 12 | 2012/03/04 RLWalker | |||
| - How to put pictures on your computer back on your digital camera - | |||||
| Creating Log Files (Windows) | 2004 05 | 2012/11/08 DiegoBarboza | |||
| - Capture Windows user editing activity in simple text log files with this easy method. - | |||||
| Printing from Unix to Windows Printers | 2005 06 | ||||
| - Using nothing more than the software that comes free as part of most Unix and Windows systems, you can successfully print from Unix to Windows printers. - | |||||
| join mac os x to win 2003 active directory | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - I've done this. I couldn't find a documented procedure, but this process works for me: Configure the Active Directory service as follows:: - | |||||
| SMB Caching | 2006 05 | ||||
| - SMB caching on Windows can be confusing - on a whim, I tried deleting a file, and once that had been done, users could now write and overwrite as desired. - | |||||
| Multiple IP addresses on one interface | 2009 03 | 2010/11/22 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Using multiple ip addresses on one machine can avoid confusion and lost links. - | |||||
| Fixing Large Kerio Mailboxes | 2008 05 | 2011/11/29 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I bet you have customers who never delete anything out of their Inbox, or if they do, they never empty their deleted items folder. If they are using Outlook PST files, they will sooner or later crash. - | |||||
| Basic TrueCrypt Usage | 2010 01 | 2010/01/12 TonyLawrence | |||
| - People have said that they installed TrueCrypt, but have no idea what to do next. OK, maybe the interface isn't all that user friendly. - | |||||
| An Annotated Guide To Samba Configuration | 2005 09 | 2010/06/20 anonymous | |||
| - Samba is the Open Source Software package that allows a UNIX or Linux server to participate in a Windows network, and even become the Windows primary domain controller (PDC). - | |||||
| Protect your Laptop with TrueCrypt | 2009 08 | ||||
| - Truly affordable hard drive, laptop and USB Drive encryption software for your business critical data - | |||||
| Pricing the Hidden Costs of Unix, Linux, and Windows | 2003 08 | ||||
| - Total cost of ownership for Unix, Linux, and Windows: Analyst firms have been releasing total cost of ownership calculations for leading operating systems, with Linux and Windows neck-in-neck for the low end, and Unix numbers somewhere up in the stratosphere. The question is, will standard TCO measurements still be relevant as we move into an impending era of utility, on-demand, and grid computing? - | |||||
| Network Troubleshooting | 2010 03 | 2010/03/16 AndrewSmallshaw | |||
| - As it turned out, the problem was very physical: a light fixture had fallen down and loosened some connections to a long forgotten ethernet switch. - | |||||
| Kerio Mailserver vs. Microsoft Exchange | 2009 03 | ||||
| - I sell Kerio because I like the product and the company. I do not like it because I sell it. - | |||||
| Overview of Visionfs | 1998 08 | ||||
| - Visionfs puts your SCO box into the Network Neighborhood of your Windows machines - | |||||
| Microsoft's Services For Unix | 2003 06 | ||||
| - Microsoft's Services For Unix produce an acceptable emergency Unixish environment under Windows. That's the best I can give it. - | |||||
| Kermit 95 2.1.3 | 2003 03 | 2011/03/31 TonyLawrence | |||
| - This is a review of an ancient terminal emulation product and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| Lan sniffing with a DualComm port mirroring switch and Windump | 2010 01 | 2010/01/23 TonyLawrence | |||
| - Using Dualcomm Port Mirroring switch and Windump to trace network problems and detect virus activity. - | |||||
| WHY I hate Windows | 2009 03 | 2012/09/15 BigDumbDinosaur | |||
| - Why I hate Windows - not why YOU should, not why your sister should, but why *I* hate it. - | |||||
| Monitoring Windows NT with Unix syslog | 2001 02 | ||||
| - Setting Windows logging to use a central Unix syslog server to consolidate logs. - | |||||
| Kerio Webmail | 2009 03 | ||||
| - webmail with full functioned drag and drop, includes calendaring, scheduling, shared folders - | |||||
| Printing from Solaris to Windows | 2008 02 | ||||
| - Solaris to windows lpd issues - fireall, getting lpd running on Windows, how to test. - | |||||
| Chrome OS on Vmware Fusion | 2009 11 | ||||
| - A look at Chrome OS in VmWare - basically, this is Linux in kiosk mode - the only apparent app is the browser. - | |||||
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| Testing for Conficker with Nmap | 2009 04 | 2013/04/15 anonymous | |||
| - The latest nmap release can test Windows machines for Conficker infection - | |||||
| Win4Lin | 2000 04 | ||||
| - This is not at all like Wine; with Win4Lin you actually install Windows 95 or Windows 98 - | |||||
| Multitech RF550VPN SOHO VPN Router | 2002 03 | ||||
| - This is a review of an ancient Multitech router product and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| Windows Network Configuration | 2000 02 | ||||
| - This is an old article about Windows Network Configuration and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| local security policy won't permit interactive logon | 2004 12 | ||||
| - local security policy won't permit interactive logon - | |||||
| More backup, please | 2009 02 | ||||
| - There really is no such thing as too much backup - and you need to test, test test to be sure it can restore! - | |||||
| I can't get to the Internet! | 2008 02 | ||||
| - You can't trust what people say, because their ability to describe a problem accurately heavily depends upon their general understanding of technology. - | |||||
| WINDOWS NETWORKING: Doing It the Samba Way | 2003 10 | ||||
| - WINDOWS NETWORKING: Doing It the Samba Way. The majority of businesses have at least a couple of PC's running Windows, which means Microsoft networking seems to be as unavoidable as death and taxes. - | |||||
| Account Currently Disabled | 2009 05 | ||||
| - At first I thought this was because of the upgrade. He had done a fresh install and had copied over his entire /etc/samba directory. - | |||||
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