Truth About Scams and How Easy It Is To Create Fake Proofs
The "I Make Money by Telling People How to Make Money" scheme is a saturated market full of scammers, especially on the Internet. I'm not saying making money on the Internet is not possible, but it's definitely not as easy as it sounds. Among the people who are trying to make money on the Internet, only a small portion actually succeeds. Scammers are experts in creating fake proofs representing false information. This post is not to deliver the message that "all proofs are fake", but to give you a brief idea of how easy it is to create fake proofs. In here we [...read more]
Increase Wireless Coverage with Multiple Access Points
Often, a single wireless access point is not enough to provide wireless coverage at a single location. The solution is to install multiple wireless access points with the same wireless SSID and authentication. For example, here is an office with wireless coverage from 1 wireless access point: If we add another access point, the wireless coverage expands to... Note that there is a some overlapping wireless coverage. The key here is to reduce overlapping WiFi coverage as much as possible. Things to keep in mind when implementing multiple access points: Overlapping WiFi coverage should be reduced to the minimum level. WiFi [...read more]
Take Complete Control of Workstations with Deep Freeze
Faronics Deep Freeze helps eliminate workstation damage and downtime by making computer configurations indestructible. Once Deep Freeze is installed on a workstation, any changes made to the computer - regardless of whether they are accidental or malicious - are never permanent. Deep Freeze provides immediate immunity from many of the problems that plague computers today - inevitable configuration drift, accidental system misconfiguration, malicious software activity, and incidental system degradation. Deep Freeze ensures computers are absolutely bulletproof, even when users have full access to system software and settings. Users get to enjoy a pristine and unrestricted computing experience, while IT personnel are [...read more]
Schedule Daily Restarts on Windows Client Machines
Restarting regularly is a good practice in the field of system maintenance and optimization. In fact, during my years of IT support experience, a simple restart can often solve the customer's problem. (About 30% of the time I would say) If you have clients running Windows in their offices, you can implement this strategy. Let's assume the following scenario: For a client's office, you have the following computers within its network infrastructure: INFO-AS01 (Server, Windows Server 2003) INFO-OFFC-W001 (User workstation, WinXP) INFO-OFFC-W002 (User workstation, WinXP) INFO-OFFC-W003 (User workstation, WinXP) [...read more]
Drive Mapping Using Active Directory Logon Scripts
If you have an active directory server (we'll use Windows 2003 Server here) controlling user accounts in a network, you can add logon scripts to user accounts or groups so that each time a user logs in, a network shared location will be automatically mapped. Previously we talked about how to enable file sharing in Windows XP. (Read Simple File Sharing In Windows) The process is quite straight forward. But if you have a lot of client computers that need to have access to a single shared location, say, 100 computers, it can be very time consuming to add the shared [...read more]