A network sniffer is an essential tool for any system/network administrator. The famous Ethereal used by the Linux has now a nice GUI (also for Windows), a different name and a new company behind it.
Wireshark works by catching all the traffic on one or more interfaces. To catch all the traffic on your network you [...]

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While doing a Service Pack Update on Symantec Backup Exec on our main Windows Server 2003 file server I was told that I needed to restart the file server to complete the update. Since this is the file server for our entire office shutting it down in the middle of the day isn’t really an [...]

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Unknown to most people Windows XP already has a free H.323 client loaded and ready to run. It’s the conferencing application called Netmeeting.
To get Netmeeting running as your free H.323 client in Windows XP just follow the following steps:
1: Click START then RUN
2: Enter “conf” without the quotes
And there you go. You will now be [...]

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After walking from the building I am working in across the field to the building where the printer is I was unable to pick up my printing, instead I found a screen on our Xerox Printer giving me the error code 016-757.
The 016-757 error message indicates that:

Cause – The entered password is wrong.
Remedy – Enter [...]

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Google has this online tool http://google.com/gwt/n that
automatically strips any given website down to a minimum (text and a few images- if you want them). So if you are browsing from a mobile phone or a connection where you pay per megabyte – it is much cheaper. Also if you are someone who goes to internet [...]

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Google has been stirring up a storm on the other side of the atlantic, Due to the TV stations going digital it has freed up the 700mhz band for mobile phone operators to use (does this mean we will need phones capable of handling 5 bands?). There will be bidding and google has said it [...]

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