3. You will see that you are using “1″ processor
4. Check the box next to Number of Processors - Use the drop down and select “2″
5. Click OK and OK, Reboot…
Thanks to Coffee County’s IT Director Billy Bellamy for referring us to this great site and software.
From their site:
Don’t you miss the old Windows defragmentation utility that displayed all the nice visuals while you waited for your hard drive to be optimized? I do.
UltimateDefrag not only displays nice visuals while defragging your hard drive, it also has many other options such as placing regularly accessed files on faster areas of your hard drive - and this can be done automatically for you. Link
Xirrus offers an excellent sidebar widget. The radar type image presents wireless netwoks in range. Detailed information can be found by clicking on the radar.
From their website:
Xirrus has created a collection of easy-to-use tools to help you more effectively use and manage your Wi-Fi networks. The Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor allows you to monitor the status of your Wi-Fi connection and the surrounding Wi-Fi environment - in real time and directly from your desktop.
The Xirrus Wi-Fi Monitor is useful for both IT managers and end users, and is available as a Yahoo! Widget for Windows XP and a Gadget for Windows Vista. A radar-like display graphically shows available Wi-Fi networks and their range. Detailed information is available about your current Wi-Fi connection in addition to surrounding Wi-Fi networks, including SSID, signal strength, IP address, MAC address, security level, vendor, and network type. A Terminology section helps you make sense of all the Wi-Fi terms. Nine different color skins are available to customize the Wi-Fi Monitor’s look for your desktop.
The lucky seven, and you better have the hands-on to prove it.
Memorizing a study guide does not make you a professional. Period.
Our students get 2100 hours lecture and labs. We constantly give them positive feedback but tell them the negatives of just memorizing a study guide. Why is it people won’t do the excercises with virtual computers, real labs, internships and play with their own computer until they break it? They would rather memorize a test and pass it.
Knock it off, you are hurting the industry. Even if you break into a job with certs, get the big bucks, you are going to fall if you don’t have the skills. Old IT guys can see through it. The customer can see through it. The title doesn’t make you smart.
A degree or diploma doesn’t make you smart.
Skills in your industry and worker ethics are what makes a good IT person.
CompTIA is now considering issuing a System Administrator’s Certificate with the passing of several CompTIA exams. The Certificate would cost an applicant approximately $50. Hopefully they stay on the ball.
http://www.infosyssec.com/infosyssec/index.html
Too much information…..
Over 200 million records….. stolen or lost….
http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/ChronDataBreaches.htm
Hopefully IT Personnel are training themselves and staff on how to protect their data.
A student at the University of Virginia has found a way to hack smartcards. Over 2 billion of the cards are being used today in industry to protect transporation, secure rooms, etc. The problem evidently is week cryptology. A laptop and scanner can be used to get into secure areas within minutes. The MiFare chip appears to have the flaws stated above.
I have Unix experience that goes back a dozen years. After restarting the Linux fad that is going on, I found my Unix skills coming back. I was very impressed that Linux had finally gotten their act together and loaded good drivers and better software and hardware support. I was a little disappointed on how slow some apps launched. Here’s a tip:
Edit your “/etc/hosts” file - Man this hasn’t changed much
sudo gedit /etc/hosts -SUDO Linux’s way of saying it needs admin priviledges (Wow, just like Vista)
You should see something like this
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 onlyubuntu
Now, You need to replace with the following lines:
127.0.0.1 localhost onlyubuntu
127.0.1.1 onlyubuntu
(Replace “onlyubuntu” with your computer’s hostname “computer’s name”)
Save and exit the file
This should help.
I recently discovered iTALC. It’s freeware for Windows that allows you to monitor a classroom full of computers. You can send text messages to the screen, take remote control, take screen shots, shutdown the computers, turn on the computers, etc. With a million computers, thank goodness for two of our best interns Bart and Gary. They installed the software on the instructor’s computer and put a small software client on the other machines and instantly, remote monitoring of a classroom. This is a GREAT idea for parents and grandparents who continually ask me about how they can watch their children on the internet. Link
The Dude network monitor is a new application by MikroTik which can dramatically improve the way you manage your network environment. It will automatically scan all devices within specified subnets, draw and layout a map of your networks, monitor services of your devices and alert you in case some service has problems. You just can’t beat free. Use a jpg or gif background of your facility or a map of your area and let The Dude Network Monitor find and label your computers. Link We ran this on our network and now see all 300+ computers, APs, printers and switches.
Very few newsletters get my attention. This one is worth it. Link
