Category: How To
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Tips for speeding up your internet experience
Even though Internet speeds are getting better and better, any nerd knows that we’re always looking for things to make our online experience faster. First, a quick primer about how your computer communicates with any other computer (local or on the Internet)… Whenever you do anything involving communicating with another system, your computer has to…
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Skype: checking logged in devices
I recently learned that there’s a whole collection of chat commands you can enter from any Skype chat window that enable you to perform a range of administrative tasks. Some simple examples include: /showplaces will list all of the devices you’re currently logged on from /remotelogout will remotely log you out of other devices The…
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Joining Macs systems to Active Directory
My current job has me working in an (almost) all-Mac desktop environment. However, we’re in the curious position of running a predominantly Windows-based backend (precipitated by our use of MS Exchange Server). For obvious reasons (password expiration being a big one), it makes some sense to join the Macs to Active Directory, yet it took…