* 1988 - Started teaching myself about computers
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* 1992 - Mainframe programmer for an insurance company
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* 1993 - Network Administrator for a different insurance company
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* 1996 - Author for The Cobb Group
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* 1998 - Network Administrator for Fort Knox
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* 1999 - CIO for chain of hospitals
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* 2000 - Gave up the corporate rat race to work out of my home. I have been a full time technical author ever since. Visit my Web sites at http://www.brienposey.com and http://www.relevanttechnologies.com
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Optimizing your print servers is like giving your users better and more efficient oxygen to breathe. This Daily Drill Down explains how to reconfigure your print spoolers for much more efficient usage.
DCPROMO is supposed to make the task of demoting a domain controller easy. So what do you do if DCPROMO fails? Take a deep breath and read this Daily Drill Down by Brien Posey, who shows you how NTDSUTIL can help you deal with the failure.
Thanks to their low maintenance costs and price, inkjet printers are everywhere. For support pros, this means you’ll probably be troubleshooting an inkjet in the near future. To prepare, check out these fixes to the most common inkjet problems.
Looking for options to speed the flow of printing traffic on your network? Brien Posey has a few solutions to keep your users happy. For tips on printer spooling options and priority printing, read on.
When a 1-byte file can hog up to 32 KB of disk storage, it’s no wonder they call it a FAT file system. In this Daily Drill Down, Brien Posey examines partitions and clusters, and he explains how to use your FAT to save space.
Peer-to-peer networks are inherently insecure. In this Daily Drill Down, Brien Posey shows you several techniques you can use to enhance your network’s security.
What’s the difference between client/server and peer-to-peer networks? In terms of security and cost, quite a lot. Brien Posey discusses these differences and offers advice on picking a networking architecture that’s right for you.
Fixing a damaged Windows 2000 machine can be time consuming, to say the least. In this Daily Feature, Brien Posey introduces the Recovery Console and explains how you can use it to fix various problems.
Point and Print enables Windows 9x computers to download appropriate drivers for shared printers automatically, but the process works differently in Windows NT.