In 2006 a colleague of mine introduced me to Ubuntu. I still have the CD I burned that day when I installed it on my computer, it was Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake). I didn’t know anything about Ubuntu or Linux before that. It took me awhile to figure out how Ubuntu and Linux generally worked. Back then, Ubuntu wasn’t as…

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A new year comes by, and another year went by where Linux didn’t become the dominant desktop operating system. In fact, I believe 2017 marked the year where Linux lost the battle in the desktop war. I’ll write my thoughts on that topic in another post, but as we look forward to the new 2018 year, I want to list…

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I’ve had a few people complaining about the touchpad being sluggish on their Lenovo laptops after the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10.  I don’t know why just some of the computers show this behavior after the upgrade and not all of them. they are all the same model and as far as I can tell, the same hardware. …

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We have a Lenovo iX2 NAS in our network that we purchased for the comms team to store their media stuff on, and even though the NAS is setup with a RAID 1 ( mirror ) configuration I don’t think that is enough to protect the data from a system failure. My original plan was to buy another NAS to…

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Headphones are supposed to work every time you plug them in to your computer right? unfortunately no, these little nagging things are still present even when using Windows 10. I get many support tickets related to headphone issues from users quite frequently even from those using Windows 10. In this tutorial I will  give you a run down of troubleshooting…

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I only write tutorials for this site, but I’ll make an exception today, and sneak in a review for this laptop. I’ve been wanting to write this review for awhile, but I didn’t feel it was appropriate for the site, but what the hell, I’ll just do it. As the “go to” IT guy at work I’m the one that…

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Active Directory has changed a lot since it’s birth in 1999. The first time I used Active Directory was around 2004 on a Windows 2003 server. We had an Exchange 2003 server, and I remember using active directory to create e-mail accounts. Back then, AD was basically just the “Active Directory Users, and Computers” snap-in, and a few other components.…

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If you want to inject some branding to your Lenovo laptops by customizing the BIOS splash screen image then here is a quick tutorial on how you can do that. Download the BIOS update utility Download the BIOS Update Utility from the Lenovo support website and extract the files: Click Next and accept the agreement: Take note of the path…

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Its surprising but Microsoft is playing nice with the open source community now, they are making some of their software available on Linux. They started with .NET and now SQL, I guess their mantra now is “if you can’t beat them, join them. Anyway, in this tutorial I will show you step by step how you can install Microsoft SQL…

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Microsoft Edge is somehow the default application for opening PDF files in Windows 10 regardless if you install Adobe Reader or not. If you would like to set Windows 10 to open PDF files in Adobe Reader instead then make sure you have Adobe Reader installed ( you can get it from this link if you don’t have it yet)…

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