Category Archives: Windows

USB Device Sharing: Solution for Old Printer Driver

Posted on September 1, 2010 by mergy

I had a situation where we have a perfectly fine Epson Stylus Photo R2400 that is a few years old now but still a quality printer but we had been using it with 3 iMacs in a lab area. The … Continue reading →

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Synology DS410 Review and Experience

Posted on June 3, 2010 by mergy

Here are just a few initial notes on setup of our Synology DS410.
 
Drives: Installing easy, one drive lower than fans, notice it runs a littel hotter too. To install the lowest of the 4 trays, you need to remove the … Continue reading →

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Xmind Is A Great Rapid Mind-Mapper And Diagram Tool

Posted on April 29, 2010 by mergy

I have used a ton of different mind-mapping, flow-charting and graphing applications on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X and they all have specific positives and negatives. The ones that are the most complex also tend to be the slowest … Continue reading →

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Symantec BackupExec 2010, RALUS and Centos 5 Works

Posted on April 12, 2010 by mergy

Whew, what a pain this has been.
Always had a heck of a time with BackupExec 12.5 and below backing up CentOS versions. I think early versions of RALUS were operational and worked back in the BackupExec 8-10.5 days prior to … Continue reading →

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Problems with Lacie iamakey USB Flash Drives fixed

Posted on January 23, 2010 by mergy

I really like the design of the Lacie iamakey and related USB flash memory sticks that look like actual keys. I was thinking about moving off the consistent performers I issue to employees, faculty and staff from Sandisk. So, I … Continue reading →

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