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How to extend the range of your home or small office WiFi network
There are several approaches for increasing the range of your home's WiFi network. Two basic options are: use a Wireless Access Point to add additional wireless coverage to your network use a …
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Poor quality MP4 output from PowerDirector
I finally worked out what was causing the poor quality MP4 video output from PowerDirector 10 - even at very high bitrates. Turns out that the hardware video encoder in my ThinkPad T510 really …
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How to delete a Windows volume mount point for an invalid drive
When I rebuilt my server earlier this year to run Windows 7 (rather than Windows Home Server), I decided to use Windows mount points to expand the storage rather than using separate drive letters or …
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How to configure PEAR for Zend Server Community Edition on Windows 7
I decided to try running Zend Server CE (PHP v5.3) for my local development environment on my Windows 7 (64-bit) machine. After discovering that I needed to explicitly choose to install MySQL and …
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