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Used Linux Terminal Server Clients

December 9th, 2011 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

A few years ago a company was selling off some of their old thin clients. We purchased a whole bunch of them for about $50.00 each for the non-profit I was working for and started using them to connect to our Windows Server 2000 and 2003 Terminal Servers. They worked really well for us connecting [...]

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Looking at Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP)

December 9th, 2011 by Bill Hutchison · No Comments

We’ve been playing around with the Linux Terminal Server Project for a while now and Some who I used to work with managed to get it up and running on a few different Linux boxes! At the time we were running a primarily Windows Terminal Server network, which has been working really well for us [...]

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Windows XP Error Reboot loop

August 30th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Got this error a couple of times already on Windows XP. The system goes through the startup and then shows a blue screen for 1/2 second and reboots. I’ve then been to a few forums in order to get it fixed so I decided, for personal reasons to post here the route that worked for [...]

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Tags: OS & Servers · quick & easy tips



Free Vista and Sharepoint compatibility help by Microsoft

August 5th, 2008 by Alex Costa · No Comments

Free, unlimited installation and compatibility support has been made available for all worldwide customers using Windows Vista SP1 until March 18, 2009. Telephone support is available worldwide. Chat and Email support is available in US and Canada only. Why mention this on a SharePoint blog?? Well, if you are having any compatibility issues with Vista [...]

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Tags: Applications · Citizen Journalism · OS & Servers

Installing OS X without a functioning optical drive

July 28th, 2008 by dansnell · 1 Comment

I recently gave my old powerbook to my sister in law. I had a lot of information on it and so I planned to transfer all my files and do a clean install. One problem the dvd drive on my old powerbook is broken. It would continually spit the installation disk out. Fortunately I have [...]

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Tags: Hardware · Laptops · Mac · OS & Servers · quick & easy tips · Tutorials / Training

OpenSuse Linux 11.0

June 30th, 2008 by Alex Costa · 1 Comment

openSuse 11.0 was released this month and from user’s feedback it seems to be a good update of this distro by Novell. I’ve been using Suse Linux for a while now and it’s a very robust Linux distribution, strong on the server side but also on the desktop side. This new version comes with more [...]

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