Category Archives: Administration

Xerox Pushes Your Buttons

Posted on 2012 May 31, Thursday by JamesIsIn

As an IT professional there is nothing worse than dealing with printers.  Nothing about them conforms to anything, they rarely work as advertised, and they are constantly challenging us to second guess their perennially cryptic communications. The Xerox Phaser 3250 … Continue reading →

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How to Ninja that Huge Drive into Aligning a New Partition

Posted on 2012 May 3, Thursday by JamesIsIn

I recently received a pair of 3 TB drives to replace a pair of 1.5 TB drives in my music server.  I was relieved to discover that both the bios and Ubuntu’s utilities had no trouble in seeing those new … Continue reading →

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Using YUMI to Create Multi-Boot Thumbdrives

Posted on 2012 May 3, Thursday by JamesIsIn

Lately I’ve had good cause to use bootable thumbdrives.  To the point where I am now finding use for having a single 16 GB thumbdrive which contains various different bootable utilities and installation discs. Over at PenDriveLinux I was able … Continue reading →

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Compact and Easy Windows Defragger

Posted on 2012 May 3, Thursday by JamesIsIn

The built-in degragmentation tool in Windows (any version) rather, to put it politely, sucks giant iguana balls.  Seriously.  It’s like when you ask a kid to clean up his or her room and they stuff all their crap into the … Continue reading →

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