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Download Windows Updates in bulk

Jason — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:34:06 +0000

Once past a service pack, the number of Windows Updates only continue to grow. Even the less exciting service packs that serve as more of a roll-up can be serious time and annoyance savers. If you need to download updates to slipstream into the installation package or patch offline machines, ...

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Matt Cutts mash-up explains how to get your site #1 on Google

Jason — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:00:04 +0000

Matt Cutts gives a lot of great search advice on how to improve your site’s ranking on Google Search results. You can watch his videos through the Google Webmaster Central channel on YouTube. Somebody took those videos and created a mash-up of those videos giving less than stellar advice with ...

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Sprint Connections Optimizer muscles your phone into using Wi-Fi

Jason — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:14:30 +0000

Since the end of March, Sprint has been rolling out an over-the-air update to select phones with plans to reach more phones over time and preloaded on new devices. The main addition included in this update is called Sprint Connections Optimizer. The idea behind this update is that it will ...

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Avira antivirus impairs Windows PCs when service pack blocks core executables

Jason — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:31:56 +0000

Antivirus vendor Avira ran into problems earlier this week when it rolled out Service Pack 0 for its Avira 2012 products. Reportedly, the situation is now resolved. Through May 14th and 15th, Avira Professional Security, Avira Internet Security 2012, and Avira Antivirus Premium 2012 blocked legitimate applications from being able ...

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Mapping Active Directory attributes to the Users and Computers interface

Jason — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:27:43 +0000

If you have ever had to work with the attributes to an Active Directory object, either through the Attribute Editor or scripting, you should find this Microsoft TechNet article very helpful. Through a series of annotated screenshots, it maps where the attributes are accessible through the console fields in the ...

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Google explains how Gmail works in The Story of Send

Jason — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:14:07 +0000

Google wants to tell you how Gmail works and how using their data centers reduces the impact on the environment through efficient scaling. On the tour, you will see how an email travels from your computer across the Internet to Google’s control. A series of videos and photos will show ...

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Why does GPResult say Domain Type: Windows 2000 on a Server 2008 R2 domain?

Jason — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:00:31 +0000

Using Group Policy, you will likely use Resultant Set of Policies and GPResult to see how group policies are being applied to a user or computer. They are great tools for troubleshooting and ensuring your policies are landing correctly for your clients. One field in GPResult might cause you to ...

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[Updated] Buy Photoshop CS6, Illustrator, and Flash to patch critical vulnerabilities in CS5.5 versions

Jason — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:07:01 +0000

Earlier this week, Adobe pushed out four security bulletins. While each bulletin warned of critical vulnerabilities existing in the software packages of Adobe Shockwave Player, Photoshop CS5.5, Illustrator CS5.5, and Flash Professional CS5.5, only the Adobe Shockwave Player received a patch to resolve the issues. The other programs, however, only ...

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What does ‘five 9s’ mean?

Jason — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:32:44 +0000

My ISP has suffered two fiber cuts in the past month, taking out Internet access for all of their customers in a large region for hours at a time with an average repair time of 8 hours according to the company. While twiddling my thumbs waiting for the Internet to ...

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How to merge and manage categories and tags in WordPress easily

Jason — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:36:44 +0000

Yesterday, I started doing some long delayed clean up of categories here on 404 Tech Support. I felt like the categories had become too sprawling and too specific. Things could be improved by consolidating similar categories into one. Renaming the categories was the easy part. As I looked at the ...

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