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This story was told to me by a field service tech near Lake Champlain in New York State. Old Mrs. Smith was a widow living on a slowly decaying farm. She had called the telephone company for months – actually nearly 14 months – to complain that her phone had stopped ringing. Every time the […]
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Murphy’s law is a popular adage that states that “things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance,” or more commonly, “whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.” A number of variants on the rule have been formulated, as have several corollaries. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some
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Look no more..… 1. Since my last report, this employee has reached rock bottom and shows signs of starting to dig. 2. His/Her students would follow him/her anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity. 3. I would not allow this instructor to breed. 4. This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but
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Maintaining the system is always a good idea, and it should be habitual. We break maintenance into three types: a) continual, b) periodic, and c) occasional. We recommend you get into a routine by inserting to-do’s or calendar reminders to run maintenance until you do it automatically. So let’s look at a good maintenance plan:
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Device drivers: which ones are running on your Windows Xp Professional System?? Here is how you find out: you can find detailed information about specific drivers being used in a Windows XP system by going to Device Manager, selecting the device from the list, and drilling down to the device’s properties sheet. While this technique
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When you install a device driver on a Windows XP machine, the operating system loads that driver each time the computer boots regardless of whether the device is present—unless you specifically uninstall the driver. This means that drivers from devices that you have long since removed from your system may be wasting valuable system resources.
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One of Microsoft’s big selling points for Windows XP was that it loads applications much faster than its predecessors. To accomplish this feat, Windows XP uses what is called the “Prefetch technique,” in which the operating system gathers information about each program that you launch and stores that information in the \Windows\Prefetch folder. Then on
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44 Lessons in Life Allegedly Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, Cleveland , Ohio “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 44 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:” 1. Life isn’t fair,
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A student in a recent class turned us on to this stuff…it is great. Enjoy! A Day in the Life of A Telephone Man Phones and Codes: Brian Regan – Telephone Company One Ringy Dingy – the famous Miss Tomlin! Ms.Tomlin Calls Cher Bono to Gossip Lily Tomlin on Merv Griffin Show Training Videos Pacific
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Food for thought:1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 5. Why do we say something
Stories of Air Traffic Control… Hope these put a smile on your face. These are (allegedly) actual air traffic control exchanges from various sources: Tower: “Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o’clock, 6 miles.” Delta 351: “Give us another hint! We have digital watches!” ========================= “TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 degrees.”
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If you are new, or if you are experienced in Linux, it is always helpful to have a cheat sheet with all the various commands to help you control networking, process files, and much more. Sometimes a cheat sheet can even show you better ways to do something, or even introduce you to new things
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Because of the way that search engines crawl sites, many of you have no idea that CellStream has been compiling a bunch of what we call “Cisco Router How To’s”, and these are easily available to any network administrator. What you do is go to this link , you may need to create an account at the
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This is a story of Thomas Edison. It is a story I often refer to when teaching both new and experienced Engineers in the US and abroad. When I mention his name, What do you think of? Most people immediately think of the light bulb. The incandescent light bulb to be precise. Taken from his
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This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn’t. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers. 1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. 2. What
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