Technology for the Masses

How to detect rogue DHCP servers on your network

DHCP – There can be only ONE! Well not really, there can be others but that out of the “scope” of this article. Once in awhile a problem comes into the network, either through a hacker or uneducated user, that they add a device (router, personal server, Linksys wireless router, etc) to the network. What happens then is a conflict between your original DHCP server and the newly added device.

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Imaging a computer with Norton Ghost

Automating the installation of Windows XP (or even Vista) can save any technician a lot of time. Typical installations from scratch can often take a couple of hours. Who has this much time when you have computers lined up. Not me, that’s for sure. The conventional, Microsoft approved method of automating installation is to use [...]

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10 things your IT Systems Administrator would like you to know…

No, I did not write this article, but I did find it from AskTheAdmin blog (also Guy McDowell also posted it), who got it from a site that no longer exists. Although the tone is a bit funny, I did find it pretty much true.  In my line of work, I just HAD to post [...]

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