Enroll in an IT associates degree program at your local community college. Attend classes until you get a helpdesk job, then drop the program since you already have a degree. Congrats on your new career, and you didn't even have to sign away five years of your life. Or you could end up like the peop...
The more complicated the dish in the MRE, the worse it is. (Oh god, I just remembered the Country Captain Chicken. The horror, the horror.) I was vegetarian occasionally simply because the veggie MREs were tastier, and most people didn't eat them. I once made the tactical error of stating that #4 C...
I like these contest rules. A few years back TR did a contest where entries had to be posted on the forum. A third of the entries were from people who registered for the contest, and something like 70% or so were from people with <200 posts. Like this one, quite a few entries from users that didn't ...
For lab/study materials, you're probably better off asking the Cisco forums. There's a few people in the SomethingAwful IT cert thread that have taken the CCNA:Wireless exam, and the last two failed the first attempt. If you don't have recent WLC experience or a solid grasp of RF fundamentals, you'r...
Me hurting the feelings of the resident expert (whose claim to fame is stepping foot in a school). The outrage here is entirely misplaced. Helping a bad poster into a woodchipper is still help, and I'm glad to be of service. You, sir, are an ass. If I were cruel for the sake of cruelty, I would hav...
And this is why you shouldn't listen to hobbyists. There's a Henry Ford quote being thrown around these days, "If I asked customers what they wanted, it'd be faster horses." (I wasn't really him that said this.) Desk phones and running cable would provide almost all of the requested funct...
That only solves the wired networking issue. The OP indicates that he wants WiFi and cell coverage. After reading all of the responses (including yours), I stand by my original statement that there are no obvious inexpensive solutions. And this is why you shouldn't listen to hobbyists. There's a He...
Hi all, I manage a smallish enterprise deployment (about 150 wireless clients). This is part of an ongoing series, "tech enthusiasts are often not IT professionals--confuse the two at your own peril." So the *internal* walls are 1'+ concrete? That's rough. I can't think of any obvious inex...
1. Hmm, if only there was a type of computer that manages to fit all its components in a compact form factor. 2. If she has the desk real estate to handle a desktop, she has the space to rotate a tower 90 degrees and place it behind the monitor. 3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82...
I took the two exam combo last year. You should be aware that there is now a new version of the CCNA exam; the old one will be retired later this year. For books, there are two camps: Odom and Lammle . Odom is dry and Lammle is superficial. Most people buy the CCNA study books to pass the exam, and ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yf4A0dGyAE Monday afternoon: One of our IT support techs reports an user with a D-Link switch, aka Etherkiller Jr. I contact the user and install a wall-mounted PoE switch after she leaves for the day. Tuesday morning: I arrive to find "My printer isn't working :...
Three of us with Stingers. On comms Coordinated attack. We have tone. We have "lock" Fire. Couldn't knock them out of the sky. Wouldn't one flare affect all three simultaneously fired stingers? Fire them off one at a time, the best they could do is draw off the first two, the third one wo...
I'd be curious to see how many spam posts Something Awful gets, with their $10 registration fee. I bet I could count it on zero fingers. Every once in a while SA gets a social media promoter hoping for a little exposure. His $10 is considered a non tax-deductible contribution to the Lauren Kyanka c...
JBI's recommendation (the edit, not WPS) is spot on. If you do decide to replace the WNR3500, I suggest getting a router that supports guest SSIDs. This allows a separate, direct-to-internet wireless connection that 1) can be configured with a different password and 2) protects the rest of your netw...
Sounds like a terrible solution to a non-existent problem. If you are behind NAT, you shouldn't be worrying about open ports within your internal network*. If your network isn't secure, then there are far easier/better ways to secure it before you attempt to harden devices. *If there is an applicati...
Possible causes: 1) General router flakiness. Update router firmware, curse QA, etc. 2) Router overheating (only manifesting now due to different usage pattern). You can try putting some air on the chips to see if stability improves. If so, a heatsink may make a good long-term solution.
Fixing DNS* on the server is the best solution, but you can at least get a system to join by firing up wireshark and adding every DNS request that pops up to the client's host file. Will take a few join attempts since it touches several locations. Use that info to get the rest of the systems online....
Well figured out the issue, PCI slot I had the card in was damaged, put another card in a different PCI slot worked fine. The I proceeded to go through 4 different PCI NICs in different PCI slots. I used to think it was cynical to automatically assume the person at the other end of the line was eit...
I don't think this is the case any more with modern desktop switches, from what I have seen most (at least from prominent brands like Netgear, Trendnet, etc.) can handle full or near-full saturation on all ports concurrently. Mostly these days enterprise switches are expensive because of the extra ...
It's soooooo weird (to me, anyway) that both the OP in the linked thread AND the out-of-place question in this thread end with "What's a brother to do?" It's the entire post, word for word. Any poster with a feminine sounding name is a spammer until proven otherwise. If a post sounds fami...
You cited Fallout 3, of which Point Lookout had an expanse. The amount of choice is consistent with other quests (I can see an objection to the number of quests, but you're apparently ok with that). In the guise of posing a question, you are really making a statement--and qualifying evidence to bols...
If I can derail this thread a bit, has anyone played any good DLC? I don't think that there's ever been any DLC that I have played that I thought was as good as the original game. The only good DLC that I have played is the Nazi zombie maps for CoD5. There used to be good expansion packs (old C&...
A lot of the cheaper network stuff (both wired and wireless) is actually repackaged and rebranded. Wireshark and drivers will usually be for the original chip rather than for the name on the box. It's easy enough to see the chip on a PCI / PCIe card, but obviously you don't want to go opening up US...