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You are a sysadmin, and for your company system you chose to use HP Server, and your proud of it. First time installation should be easy because HP SmartStart CD is accompanying you, guiding you installing the OS for your choice (Windows, Novel, Suse, Redhat, etc)

After running several years without complain, suddenly the server need to rebuild due to corrupt, or something else. But alas, you didn’t find the smartstart CD. It was several years ago, how can I remember where to put it? Ah it’s was there, but alas again, the CD was stretch. And now you hoping you can turn back in time, to get the correct CD.

But dont be afraid, my dear colleagues, HP archives all SmartStart CD version, all you need to is download the right version for your server and burn it into cdrom. Here it is the link:

HP SmartStart CD Archives

Do you use Yahoo Messenger? if so sometimes the ads a little bit bothering..?? if not then it takes up space to display your friends and it also consume a bandwidth (especially bothering home user with dial-up). If you want to chat comfortly using YM 8 or 9 but dont want to displaying the ads and also dont want to use GAIM then use this steps:

- Copy paste below script on notepad.
- Save as .bat file (i.e. noYMads.bat)
- Run it (double-click on the file)

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Summary of 6 Must Have Replacement Tools when Fixing a Computer Infected by Virus

If your PC infected by a good and powerfull virus/trojan/malware, it may disable access to Task Manager, Regedit, MSConfig, etc and unable to run several native Windows programs to clean it up. So in addition to your favorits anti virus softwares, here are list of utilities that you should have

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Wednesday, After long time I never visit this branch, Yesterday I had a chance to visit and see what changes.
Visiting to Casablanca office itself is not something I planned but rather incidential one. The licensor propitary device was broken after electricity black out. I was once who responsible for installing and maintain it. But after some jobs changes at the office, I handed over the responsibility to my colleague and luckily until yesterday the device works just fine. (more…)