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Nine year IT professional, MA Psychology, parent, agnostic theist. An Englishman in New York.

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Computers & Technology > Networking & IT Management Essential technology for enterprise data storage
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Data is a tricky commodity. It has a habit of getting progressively larger and larger. It is required to be accessed quicker and quicker, and having reliable backup and disaster recovery is now mandatory for most businesses. The foundation of your essential technology must of-course be the server. As far as hardware is conce... More..

Computers & Technology > Networking & IT Management Guide to wireless LAN
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LAN is simply an acronym for Local Area Network. A wireless LAN is a Local Area Network that uses radio transmitters and receives instead of CAT cables to connect all the different parts of the network together. In general a wireless network is less secure than a wired network simply because of the fact that someone can snoo... More..

Computers & Technology > Spyware & Adware How to get rid of adware
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As an 9 year IT professional I have found that you need to pursue two avenues to get rid of adware: Cure and prevention. Curing existing adware: 1) Install Spybot (free from www.spybot.info). Install the software, download the latest updates for SpyBot. Run the immunize function. Then scan for adware and then remove. (This s... More..

Entertainment > Movie Analysis Does Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End deliver where Dead Man's Chest didn't?Smallicon
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Yes! And I liked "Dead Man's Chest" too. But let's look at "At World's End" more closely: "At World's End" had the unenviable task of tying up all the lose ends that Dead Man's Chest left dangling: Captain Jack Sparrow "dead", Davy Jones' heart held by the East Indian Trading Company, Will Turner's dad condemned to sail with... More..

Computers & Technology > Internet Software & Utils How a FTP program works
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FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol, and is the Internet protocol developed and preferred for the transferring of large files (5MB plus). The average Internet user many not have even heard of FTP, or would have perhaps just used it to transfer files to a website. This protocol is based on a client/server setup, wher... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Understanding why theists need to deny atheism
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Disclaimer: This article will discuss why theists need to deny atheism, not the merits of either position. The primary reason why theists need to deny atheism is the perceived threat of atheism to the theist. A common misconception about atheism is a lack of God in ones' life equates to a lack of morals and responsibility. C... More..

Health & Fitness > Mental Illness Help for cutting and other forms of self-mutilation
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Self-mutilation, self-harm or self injury is a symptom of several mental illnesses, usually stemming from abuse, eating disorders and low self-esteem or self-worth. Cutting and self-mutilation seem, from recent studies, to be more common between the ages of 12 - 35 and effective men and women equally (about 1 in 15). Althoug... More..

Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) True gardening stories: What happened when I tried to combine gardening with kids
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Being the proud father of two young children (4 and 1), the garden and gardening seemed to be the perfect location to introduce my kids to part of the cycle of life: Growing from a tiny seed, being nourished, flowering, producing and finally dying and the growth of the next generation. It also seemed to be the perfect locati... More..

Arts & Humanities > Marketing & Selling Writing Guide to "print on demand" publishing
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"Print on Demand" is approximately a 17 year old technology, which started in the early nineties to solve a problem in the printing and publishing industry: If you had a book on a specific subject matter and only had a small audience say a couple of thousand purchasers tops, you still had to pay through the nose to a printer... More..

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