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Slow computer due to proxy auto-detect

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While on vacation, my laptop (which is a Windows 10 machine) stayed off, almost entirely; save for some miscellaneous banking, news, etc. A week prior to returning to work, I performed all the

Updating Dell Latitude E55XX BIOS

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I tried updating a Latitude E55XX bios today with the latest firmware. It would unpack the firmware and then shutdown, but not actually do the update. Michael and I could not figure out

Carbonite backups with encrypted files

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I've recently begun using Carbonite for backing up my files. Carbonite is a very easy-to-use and works quite well... But, that's another subject for another post. I did, however,

JIRA 5 Sharing & Mentions with Exchange 2010

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I recently updated our company's JIRA installation to the latest version, JIRA 5. I was very excited to see the new sharing/mentioning features in JIRA. Unfortunately, I found that I

Migrating Crowd Directories

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When I originally started using Crowd, I set it up with an internal directory... A type of directory that is proprietary to the Crowd application. Ideally, I would have set it up with