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Laptop Power Jack Replacement

Laptop Power Jack Replacement

We receive a lot of calls in the shop for broken power jacks on laptops.  While many jacks can stand up to a lot of abuse, when you trip over your power cord, drop your laptop from the bed or sofa, or otherwise subject it to forces or angles it wasn’t designed for, you could [...]

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Network Camera Demonstration

Network Camera Demonstration

The video feed you see above is streaming live from a Network Camera installed on a construction site in Baltimore, Maryland. Network Cameras offer powerful remote monitoring capabilities, and can be easily viewed in a web browser from anywhere in the world (yes, even on mobile devices!). Note: This model of Network Camera streams in [...]

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How to remotely uninstall software?

There’s a lot of times when you just want to uninstall a piece of software without interrupting the end user, but unfortunately there isn’t an easy, out of the box way to do it. To uninstall software on a local machine without any user interaction, you would do something like this: msiexec.exe /norestart /qn /x [...]

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Clearing Hundreds of Duplicate Events from a Google Calendar

The infinite loop gremlin strikes again! We deploy Google Apps for many of our clients. One of the big reasons we push it, is because without any extra servers, services, or expensive add-ons, it will sync email, contacts, and calendars beautifully with virtually any mobile device. iPhone, Android, or Blackberry, your Google Apps data will [...]

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Data Closet Organization

The server room or data closet can be an intimidating place, especially if multiple tenants in a single building are sharing infrastructure. Over the years, technicians from the phone company, cable company, WISPs, phone system installers, network technicians, CCTV, Access Control, Security, and Fire Alarm companies come in to patch connections, and install boxes and [...]

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