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Office Key Remover is a small portable application for 32-bit and 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system that can be used to remove Office licensing

AHCI provides you with some of the Native functions of Serial ATA, however it has to be enabled in the BIOS before windows 7 is installed. However with a simple registry tweak you can change it after the fact.

If you're a PC gamer who's never heard of Corrinne Yu, you're missing out on one of the more intriguing folks in 3D gaming. She's a 3D engine programmer to rival some familiar names like Carmack and Sweeney, and is currently Principal Engine Architect on the Halo Team at Microsoft.

Confused about what each voltage configuration on the motherboard setup really means? Learn all about them in this tutorial.

In this report we examine higher education through the lens of openness. Our goal is to understand the potential impact of greater openness on colleges and universities. Like other service industries such as finance or entertainment, higher education is rooted in information-its creation, analysis, and transmission -and the development of the skills required to utilize it for the benefit of individuals and society.

A quick way to generate traffic using SLA Monitors

A collection of good articles on Routers throughout the past year.

Terry Starbucker wrote a great blogpost on 10 Surefire Ways To Impress Your Boss (and get what you want). As he notes: Be on time. Nothing, I mean nothing, is more penalizing than being habitually late. There is a lot...

If you have the right working tools for network operations, you can get a lot of information that can help you control or monitor the network.  Here are three tools, WinTracer, PacketViewer, and NetTraffic that are easy to use and provide you with a steady stream of network information.

Perhaps you are like me and sometimes have the need to create many loopback interfaces to be used in your lab. So, I made a little script that can create these loopback interfaces automatically for you.

Comparison of features available with the different IOS 15 licences.

Another resource for network security help.

We probably often fail to assist students on how to become more effective at how to improve time management and study skills. Fortunately though there are a number of great resources that I came across from the University of Texas that I thought applied to students around the globe. You can download the PDF's below and spend some time on them with your own students.

This is a list of tools used for Network (both LAN and WAN) Monitoring tools and where to find out more about them. The audience is mainly network administrators. 

There are many different connectors in use for Fibre Optic Cabling. This is a brief overview of the different types of connectors, whether they are still relevant, and practical notes from my experience about the uses and purposes.

Some great lessons for the work place.

A quick summary of the protocols and commands used for PPP. Includes PAP, CHAP and EAP as authentication mechanisms.

A big improvement over VPC.

Use it to parse through your current controller configs and see what parts of your config don't meet Cisco's defined best practices.

The first five videos to appear cover using the automated troubleshooters, the extremely well hidden system file checker, how to get started with the event viewer, how  to use Windows Startup Repair and finally how you can manually repair corrupt boot files for Windows 7.