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Last week, I was part of the Gestalt IT Network Field Day in San Jose, CA. You may have noticed a lot of buzz on twitter and blogs. The purpose of the Tech Field day is to bring independant people active in the networking community together with vendors to discuss products, ideas, technologies and most important Networking. Not only Networking in a technical sense but also networking in terms of people. (more…)

In light of April fools day, here is a small list of a pranks instead of an elaborate story. Feel free to add your own pranks in the comments.

Disclaimer: Pranks can get your fired. I am not responsible for your lack of judgment. If the target is not a person that would enjoy a good prank….leave them alone. If your manager does not enjoy a good prank … leave everyone alone and just think about how funny it would be.

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This tutorial will show you how to use the synaptic package manager in Ubuntu 9.10 to prevent the kernel from being updated automatically when there is a new update available.
 
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Sorry for just now posting my results of my recent lab attempt (2nd). As most of you have probably already concluded, I didn’t pass. I felt I did really well overall and at the end of the day, I had tallied enough points for a pass (through my verification), but didn’t leave a lot of room for error. As many of you know, what we think is a correct answer, may be seen a little different to the Proctor. And in my case, there must have been enough differences to take me below the 80 mark.

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