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Perhaps a bit of an odd request but I need some help finding a decent external display for my Surface Pro 2. The problem is with how Windows 8.1 renders. My understanding is that it renders using the highest dpi display (SP2) causing text and what not to appear blurry on the lower quality...

I hate to be 'that guy' but I really need help buying a camera. For a bit of background the nicest camera we have is an iPhone 4, so that tells you pretty much all you need to know. Anyway, we're getting ready to have our first kid and my wife's blog is picking up a lot of steam so she feels...

I'm building out an SRM 5.1 environment and keep getting the following error when the primary site tries to connect to the secondary - 'The request failed because the remote server (secondary SRM IP) took too long to respond.' Any thoughts on what might be causing this? If I try the...

We recently picked up a set of new wireless controllers and have them bundled in an HA pair. Our old controller currently runs about 100 APs. My question is, what is the best way to migrate APs to the new controller set with minimal impact? Is it possible to add the new controller as a...

Is anyone out there managing multiple sites? We've got 5 locations that are anywhere from 5 - 100 miles away. Currently we're connected via 20MB leased fiber lines and VPNs. The performance has been less than optimal and I am trying to gauge what some other organizations out there are doing...

We have approximately 150 1142 LWAPP's deployed in our facility. Recently we started getting complaints about speed issues (90% are using G 10% N). Upon investigating we found that the speeds are flucuating rapidly. Everything from 54Mbps down to 1Mbps and back up again. I've confirmed that this...

I'm working on a potential network configuration but I ran into a bit of a mental road block. Basic idea is that there will be eight ISP lines coming in (via load two load balancers) to two separate ASA bundles (each getting 4 lines). These ASA bundles connect to the core router. What is the...

Hey everyone, We're doing a bit if upgrading to our wireless infrastructure and I've been asked to look into alternatives to Cisco ACS for MAC filtering. We're running 5508 controllers on newest code, is there anything in the controller code that will do MAC filtering? Back when we moved to...

I'm setting up some alerting for our virtual environment and was wondering what a lot of people are doing for custom alerting? The first one I've setup is one to alert us when a snapshot grows to over 2 GB in size, what are some of the custom alerts everyone else uses?

Hey guys. I have an original Aspire One ZG5 with a 160GB HDD. Long story short it took a fall and the drive shot shit. I don't use it for much but do like having it around. I was wondering if anyone knows if I can throw an SSD in this guy? If so, could you recommend a model? If not, what...

1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Starcraft II and other light computing 2) What's your budget? Are tax and shipping included? $500 - flexible on tax and shipping or $700 (would be a stretch but doable) 3) Where do you live? USA 4) What exact...

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http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/01/hp-spices-up-probooks-with-core-2010-cpus-clickpads-and-caviar/?s=t5 These look pretty promising, at least for me. It has a nice clean look to it and seems like it will perform reasonably well. The only concern I have is with the 4350 card. Anyone have...

I'm sure some of you remember my Interview preparation thread from a month ago. Well, it has paid off and now I have two offers for two very different companies. Which has obviously presented its own dilemma. The company I am currently with is small but has made a very good offer (spot on with...

We currently have pop email through a 3rd party, and web hosting through another (which I think matters for my question). We would like to change email providers because we are getting railed price wise (at least in comparison to Google) Is anyone using Google Apps at their business or for...

I have an interview setup for this Tuesday. It is a position within a hospital and I was wondering how I should prepare. I'm graduating in May so I haven't had a ton of experience and was looking for tips. It sounds like the interview will be with an HR rep so is it safe to assume there won't be...

I'm sure someone around here has had experience buying used (refurbished) server hardware. I'm looking for something to run Untangle on for a network of 20-25 machines because it seems like our trusty TZ170 isn't so trusty anymore! With budget crunches running rampant around here I thought that...

I'm trying to finally hook up a pc to my tv so that I can use boxee beta! Of course, it hasn't gone according to plan. I ordered the cables from monoprice.com one DVI->HDMI and one 3.5 to RCA. My tv, a Vizio V0320E, can handle the HDMI input along with the RCA for the sound, but I'm not getting...

The first big project of the year is beginning to take shape. We are reworking our backup strategy/ disaster recovery plan. I was wondering what the benefit of the RD1000 would be against regular external drives. We have a RD1000 external unit that connects via USB but it isn't in use, instead...

With the new year fast approaching I am working on our department budget for 2010. In the year I've been with the company I feel like we've made huge strides considering there wasn't an IT dept. before me. With that said I have a few questions moving forward. We only have 20 users on our...

I have a weird one for all of you server gurus. Our server, running SBS 2003, is gaining time, not consistently though, seems sort of random actually but it lingers around the 6-10 minute mark. After doing some research I can't really find much, a few solutions that were offered and I tried were...

Last week I pulled an old plotter out of the companies storage area, it is an HP DesignJet 750c+. Got everything running on it with no major complications, and printed several plots. This morning I got a call from the engineering department saying that it is not working. So I tried power cycling...

What kinds of data archiving strategies do you guys use within your companies? I felt that because disk space was cheap it wouldn't be necessary especially in a small business environment, however the boss feels otherwise. Fair enough I suppose but data archiving seems to be a bit of a lost art...

Our company is looking to either build or buy a new server. Currently running on a pretty old SBS 2003 box. We are looking to move up to SBS 2008 and bring our email back in house with Exchange. The company currently has less than 25 employees. I'm finishing up my last few semesters of college...

Our company has a salesman that lives on the east coat (we're in the midwest) and he uses a Mac with Office 2004. One of our salesman at our local facilities is using a Windows machine with Office 2007. The salesman on Windows has created a powerpoint presentation (saved as .ppt) and has used...

One of our users got stuck with an old 18" flat panel from Dell. When he came in this morning he could not get it to wake up, the display keeps displaying "D-SUB Power Saving Mode." I switched out monitors and the new one works fine, so no cable or vid card issues. Took the old monitor to our...

I started working for my employer in January of this year. I'm still in school so I am not working full time but I am the only person in the IT dept. Management decided that they were calling their consultant way to much and that it would just be easier and cheaper to hire a college student and...

One of our salesmen is using a Vostro 1500 laptop and I cannot seem to get this thing working properly. For some reason the NIC will not pull an IP address. I've tried the basics, rebooting, ip release and renew, and checked to make sure the properties were set to automatically obtain, but no...

I am attempting to setup a VPN for some of the users at our company. We have a SonicWall TZ170 firewall. I have the VPN setup but am running into some issues and was just hoping that hopefully someone on here would have some experience with the issue. I can connect to the VPN but it will not...

I just started a new job as a Sys admin for a small business, about two weeks ago. There are about 20 computers on the network, and a file server running server 2003. The server has a network drive that everyone has access to but only the engineers actually use it, so based on my "investigation"...

So my 360 red ringed. First time ever and it is a launch console. Anyway everything went pretty smooth and I was surprised to see that UPS got my 360 to Microsoft in only two days. MS sends it back to me on 8/21 with an expected delivery of 8/26 (damn weekends) Just to make sure I checked my...

Anyone have experience doing this? There are a lot of them on eBay. I guess it would be similar to the "I bought a PS3 for $100" thread. A lot say the warranty seal is broken but just as many say it is intact. If it is just the RROD, then why aren't these guys sending the 360's back to MS and...