Excel tutorial for beginners

July 22, 2006

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This is a basic, useful tutorial of Excel.

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Guide to Those Useless Windows XP Services

July 19, 2006

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here is a look at the default set of services that come with a fresh installation of Windows XP. "We'll tell you the ones that you don't need and try to tell you why, so you can disable them without any problems."

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One in The Hand

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One in The Hand: "Weekly video cast that promotes knowledge in the handheld arena specifically treos which also contributes to the destruction of the digital divide between the have(knowledge) and have nots."

Reinstall and Restore Win XP Activation

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If you have to reinstall Win XP on the same equipment, you know what a pain it is to reactivate XP. This simple guide tells how to backup and restore two small files so you can avoid reactivation.

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ISO Recorder v 2

July 18, 2006

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ISO Recorder v 2: "ISO Recorder is a tool (power toy) for Windows XP, 2003 and now Windows Vista, that allows (depending on the Windows version) to burn CD and DVD images, copy disks, make images of the existing data CDs and DVDs and create ISO images from a content of a disk folder."

TechNet Webcast: Windows Hang and Crash Dump Analysis (Level 400)

July 13, 2006

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TechNet Webcast: Windows Hang and Crash Dump Analysis (Level 400): "Learn to analyze Microsoft Windows crash dumps, diagnose the cause, pinpoint a solution, and resolve the problem. Intended for system administrators, this webcast explains how system crashes occur and what happens when you reboot a crashed system. We lead you through the crash dump analysis process step by step, introducing the latest tools from Microsoft and handy tricks for isolating the cause of a crash.

Presenter: Mark Russinovich, Chief Software Architect and Cofounder, Winternals Software"

Confessions of an IT Pro: My Nine Biggest Professional Blunders

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Over the past 16 years of being paid to make computers and people work together in perfect harmony, I have collected a number of incidents that make me wince and blush in embarrassment when I think of them. The mistakes I've made fall roughly into three categories: technical, political, and career management.

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Information Tools - Part 2: RSS Feeds

July 12, 2006

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This post contains some of the RSS feeds I subscribe to:

Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/index.ars/rss

CNET News.com - Security
http://news.com.com/2547-1009_3-0-10.xml

Digg.com
http://www.digg.com/rss/index.xml

k-otik Exploits
http://www.k-otik.com/exploits.xml

Help Net Security - News
http://www.net-security.org/dl/bck/news.rss

IronGeek's Security Site
http://www.irongeek.com/irongeek.rss

Lockergnome's IT Professionals
http://feeds.lockergnome.com/rss/it.xml

Microsoft Security Bulletins
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/secrss.aspx

Schneier on Security
http://www.schneier.com/blog/index.rdf

SecurityFocus News
http://www.securityfocus.com/rss/news.xml

Slashdot
http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss

Slipstick - Outlook and Exchange News
http://www.slipstick.com/rssnews/rssnews.aspx

SysAdminHell
http://sysadminhell.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/sysinternals.xml

Techdirt
http://www.techdirt.com/techdirt_rss.xml

TechNet Events (Texas)
http://www.technetbriefings.com/public/RSS/TX.xml

TechNet Magazine
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/technetmag/rss/recent.xml

The Blogcast Repository
http://blogcastrepository.com/roller/rss.ashx

Wired News: Top Stories
http://www.wired.com/rss//index.xml

I use RSS Popper: http://rsspopper.blogspot.com/. It integrates into Outlook. Others that I've used are FeedReader www.feedreader.com (standalone) and Wizz RSS Reader https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/424/ (Firefox extension).

Information Tools - Part 1: Magazines

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Part of being a SysAdmin is collecting information and staying on top of the change curve. Our industry is in constant change; things you learned a year ago can be obsolete now, and new products are introduced every day. Many issues affect the way things are done, and new concepts change the landscape of IT.

How do you stay on top of these changes? Stay informed. With the shear volume of information out there, it's not an easy task. Magazines, RSS feeds, Email lists are just some of the ways to stay informed.

This post focuses on Magazines. These are the ones I get:


Free (as in no money) Magazines

Network World
www.networkworld.com

InfoWorld
www.infoworld.com

Technet
www.technetmagazine.com

Computer World
www.computerworld.com

Information Week
www.nwc.com

eWeek
www.eweek.com

Information Security
www.infosecuritymag.com

SC Magazine
www.scmagazine.com

Network Computing
www.networkcomputing.com

InfoStor
www.infostor.com

Continuity Insights
www.continuityinsights.com

Most of the free magazines can be found at TradePub.com http://www.tradepub.com/ . They link to the subscription page for quick application.

Cost Magazines

Wired
www.wired.com

Windows IT Pro
www.windowsitpro.com/