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This is a simplified explanation of Machine Learning intended for non-computer science people. It definitely glosses over the massive complexity involved in this field but should give you a basic understanding of the core concepts in just a few short sentences. UPDATE: Oct 6 2018 – We have added Machine Learning & Artificial Read more…
If you have ever tried to figure out how to insert a clickable interactive map into your website, you likely have found a number of utilities and plugins that will do the work for you. However, there is a straight forward way to insert a Google Map into your website without any tools. You can even make the map Read more…
If you have a Juniper / Pulse Secure VPN device and you use the Host Checker to confirm that connecting PC’s have an Anti Virus on them, you will eventually have a situation in which you need to allow and AV that is not on the ESAP list. In my case Read more…
If you have a microphone that is not working on a Mitel MiCollab Client (formerly Mitel UCA) you likely have to remove the TELEWORKER GATEWAY setting. Before making any changes, test your microphone is working by: click START and type SOUND Click SOUND (or do a dance through the control Read more…
If you see transfer speeds bouncing up and down on any system (Windows PC, Linux Server, network appliance, NAS disk, firewall, router…), the most likely cause is at the physical layer. That means that you likely have a bad cable, poor physical connection or your equipment is not auto-negotiating a Read more…
Version 6 of Mitel’s Unified Communications agent now called MiCollab has had troubles connecting to the MAS / MGB server on Windows 10 since the early summer of 2016. As you can see in the screenshot to the right it displays CONNECTION LOST even though it is correctly configured and Read more…
If you are trying to find the most current Mitel MiCollab Client (formerly Unified Communicator Advanced UCA) on the internet, you are looking in the wrong place. You already have it. It is stored on your Mitel MAS server. To download the most current Mitel UCA build your hardware can Read more…
Veeam is an excellent product to back up virtual machines but its original incarnation did not readily support backup to external disk or cloud storage. Both of these items have been resolved and today Veeam Cloud Connect is now included with every version of Veeam 9.0 or higher WITHOUT ADDITIONAL Read more…
I f you need to send someone the output of a Telnet command the easiest way to accomplish it is to use the free Putty.exe client: Download PUTTY.EXE from HERE if you do not already have it. Launch Putty and click SESSION > LOGGING (on the left) Select ALL SESSION OUTPUT Read more…
YouTube will translate nearly any language audio to nearly any language text, for free! If you are watching a foreign language video on YouTube and want to have closed captions translated into another language, watch the first 60 seconds of this video. If you have a foreign language video on YouTube Read more…
If you have were trying to upgrade your Juniper device (like a Juniper SRX product) and were prompted with a error message telling you that your Juniper device was out of space like: J-Web is unable to access user information as the device file system is full. Please clear the Read more…
The number of reality terms floating around the tech world these days are unreal (get it?). Ok that was weak, but the new realities we have coming from companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, HTC and others are anything but. However the terms are confusing so below is a primer on Read more…
I recently had a situation in which a Mitel Wireless headset GN/Jabra 9330e, 9350e, 14151-02 that was connected to a Mitel 5330 handset stopped transferring audio. I could not hear anything from the speaker, not even dial tone. Similarly the mic produced no audio at the other end of the Read more…
If the PULSE SECURE NETWORK CONNECT SERVICE will not start on your PC, you may have to perform a manual uninstall of your Pulse / Juniper software. I have personally seen this problem on both Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 10 Pro. After many hours working with Pulse support, ended up Read more…
This Asus X series laptops are very interesting because they use new Intel Pentium Bay Trail N2830 N2930 and N3530 CPU’s that use about 4 watts of power. This means: they do not need active cooling (i.e. no CPU fan) which means they have no moving parts, which means they Read more…
This page details the keys needed to boot a PC into various modes (like the BIOS and PXE Network) from various manufacturers. If you are stuck and you can try the common keystrokes during a POST and before the Operating System loads: ESC, F1, F2, F8, F9, F10, F12 and Delete key. Read more…