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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

In fact, the HP acquisition of Autonomy probably ranks among the most notorious failed mergers and acquisitions. No sooner had the acquisition closed than revenue began to flag, prompting an internal investigation in which HP uncovered signs of past creative accounting at Autonomy. August 2011: HP agrees to acquire Autonomy for $42.11

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NAS Network Storage for the Home and Advice for Device.

Social, Agile and Transformation

I already use Amazon S3 and Jungledisk for backups. Ill have to find a way to backup the RAID before upgrading? That policy may be best practice in a data center, but in the home, the average user wont have a backup device nor the time to backup before upgrading. In my case, I just needed more storage.

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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

For example, with Dell PCs, you tap the F2 key to enter system setup; with HP, you tap on the Escape key once a second; and on Lenovo systems, you tap (Fn+) F2 or (Fn+) F1 key five to 10 times after the power-on button is pressed to get to system setup. Like any serious upgrade, start with making a complete backup of your Windows system.

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Help! I have a Virus!

Sean Daniel

I print, so I leave the HP one enabled, but I use iTunes or my life experience camera, or send to one note, or Spotify only sometimes, or not at all. I often do a Google Search for “How to Uninstall %insert program name%” and then see what the internet says. I want to load those manually if I need them, so they are disabled.

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Liveblog: DockerCon 2015 Day 1 General Session

Scott Lowe

Hykes believes that programming (software) is the biggest innovation multiplier in the world, and launches into a discussion of how making the Internet “programmable” would be the ultimate achievement. In summary, Hykes believes that the next 5 years or so are going to be spent making the Internet programmable.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Why I plan on using the new Windows Home.

Sean Daniel

Well, now included in WHS 2011, is the Launchpad, which enables you to easily backup your PC, access your Remote Web Access site (without having to know the URL, even if it changes!), You can backup that data to an internal, or better yet, external hard drive! First, the backup is automated. It was called ShareMaster.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: The Basics of Local DNS for Small Business.

Sean Daniel

With the SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 the Connect to the Internet Wizard would analyze your network and determine a static IP address to use, and then ensure you like it before making it the server’s IP address. SBS 2011 Essentials doesn’t assign itself a static IP address, and it doesn’t have a Connect to the Internet Wizard.