1. What are 10Base2, 10Base5 and 10BaseT Ethernet LANs 10Base2–An Ethernet term meaning a maximum transfer rate of 10 Megabits per second that uses baseband signaling, with a contiguous cable segment length of 100 meters and a maximum of 2 segments. 10Base5–An Ethernet term meaning a maximum transfer rate of 10 Megabits per second that […]
Michael Arrington of Techcrunch today gave an update on their pet project to build a sub-$200 touchscreen tablet, named Crunchpad. This prototype B, now has a fully functional webkit browser running on Ubuntu with a Via Nano processor – 1 GB Ram and 4 GB flash drive. Though it looks a bit bulky on the […]
Not many Windows users know this, but the Windows OS has an on-screen keyboard utility. This utility can be accessed by going to Start > Run, and then typing in ‘osk’ (without quotes) and clicking “Ok.” Benefits of this feature include: Visibility – This is the main reason for the keyboard. If you or someone […]
If you don’t know what I mean by “Auto complete” it is the feature in Outlook that finishes what you are typing. For example, when I am about to type out an address in the “To” field of an email it will show me a list of matches as I type: Unfortuantely these addresses are […]
In the battle for dominance over virtualization VMWare has made another shot towards Microsoft. Today they have announced that an open source client will be released for VMWare servers. This is big news since it will now allow third parties to port their client to other platforms such as thin clients, phones, and special purpose […]
The noise about Windows 7 is growing. If you haven’t heard, Windows 7 is the next version of Windows. Microsoft has said that it will be released fourth quarter 2009. If Windows Vista is the Windows ME of the new millennium, then Windows 7 should be the Windows XP. If you have ever used Windows […]
Microsoft warned enterprise customers this week that the migration path from XP to Windows 7 won’t be any easier than it is to Vista, and offered recommendations for how companies can move from older versions of Windows to one of its newer client OSes. “Moving from XP to Windows 7 is not a magic bullet,” […]
M*crosoft Offers $250,000 Bounty For Worm Authors The company has formed a cybersecurity posse with technology companies, academic organizations, and Internet infrastructure firms to dismantle the Conficker/Downandup worm’s infrastructure. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Feb. 12, 2009 Beset by malicious worms after failing to convince enough server administrators to take its out-of-band Security Bulletin, MS08-067, seriously, […]
************************************************************************* SANS NewsBites February 6, 2009 Vol. 11, Num. 10 ************************************************************************* –Amplified DDoS Attack Hits Small ISP (February 4 & 5, 2009) A new twist in DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks has come to light after the operator of a pornographic web […]