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TW Tech Glossary - Misplaced your bible? Well here it is! This truly took a while to complete and should be used by all from beginners to advance techies. Look into it, you won't be sorry. (Very Resourceful)

Basic Networking Tutorial - A network is any collection of independent computers that communicate with one another over a shared network medium.A computer network is a collection of two or more connected computers. When these computers are joined in a network, people can share files and peripherals such as modems, printers, tape backup drives, or CD-ROM drives. When networks at multiple locations are connected using services available from phone companies, people can send e-mail, share links to the global Internet, or conduct video conferences in real time with other remote users. As companies rely on applications like electronic mail and database management for core business operations, computer networking becomes increasingly more important.

Remote Desktop Technology of Windows XP - Some people thought that the whole notion of terminal services is a bit to technical for them to understand. Well, MicroSoft and our good friends that work for Bill Boy Gates have come out with terminal services, changed the name and made it a whole lot easier to understand. Find out how!

How IPV-6 Is Going To Change the Net - Ever wonder what'll happen when all the possible IP addresses will be taken? Remember when the phone companies ran out of 800 numbers? Well the same thing is about to happen with IP addresses and quickly. Read all about it here…

Most Common TCP Ports - TCP ports will popup almost with any application you use wether it is ICQ or FTP. It will soon be realized how good its knowledge is once you yourself will start applying it in day to day tech use.

How Virtual LANs (VLANS) Work - A VLAN is a grouping of computers that is logically segmented by functions, project teams, or applications without regard to the physical location of users…

Improving Performance Over Wireless Networks - The main problem with the TCP is that TCP falsely assume the packet loss as congestion. The TCP sender detects a packet loss when a time out happens or duplicate acknowledgements happen…

Windows Windows on the Wall - Windows NT is generally regarded among IT (information technology) professionals as the most stable and secure Windows OS (operating system). Or is it…

Did You Go To My PC? - Ever make it just in time for work after driving through rush hour traffic and realize that you've left an important file on your computer at home? Or have you ever had to work late in the office because you don't have access to files, applications, or shared resources at home? Well maybe your life has just become way easier. Introducing, GoToMyPC! A wonderful little service that'll let you access your home or work computer from anywhere! It takes two minutes to download this amazing software onto your computer and you'll have the power to access your computer from any web browser on any computer. A simple little technology of PC-to-PC connection or as GoToMyPC calls it, "Remote-Access Solution" will go a long way for anyone.

Internet Connection Sharing - Part I - This article explains Internet Connection Sharing in detail, and is designed as a practical guide to help you set it all up.

Using the Computer...Away From the Computer - You get to work on a Monday morning, and realise that you've left the document you were presenting today back at home on your computer. How do you get it? Or maybe you have a friend that has problems with their computer, and you know how to fix it, but only if you can see it. There could be many more situations where you need to use a particular computer and you're not there. Enter the range of programs known as VNC.

DNS Resolver Cache - To help speed up Web browsing, Windows XP comes with a local cache containing any DNS addresses that have been looked up recently. Once an URL has been resolved by an Internet name server into a numerical IP, the information is stored locally. Anytime your browser requests an URL, Windows XP first looks in the local cache to see if it is there before querying the external name server used by your ISP. If it finds the resolved URL locally it uses that IP. This is supposed to save time and cut down on Web traffic.

Wireless Network Security - Ever wonder if it's a good idea to switch your home LAN to wireless? This is a very easy to understand discussion about the security matters involved.

Internet Backbone Speeds - This is something that can come in handy for those of you who are simply curious about internet backbone speeds.

Denial Of Service - DoS stand for denial-of-service attack, a type of attack on a network that is designed to bring the network to its knees by flooding it with useless traffic...

Kindness Online - So I thought this morning I would try to be the optimist, and give reason to hope for the future of the Internet by drawing upon its present.

Now, it may seem like there is less hope today than there was before. People are less kind. There is less trust around. I don't know. As a simple example, we could run a test here. How many people have ever hitchhiked? I know. How many people have hitchhiked within the past 10 years? Right. So what has changed? It's not better public transportation. So that's one reason to think that we might be declensionists, going in the wrong direction.

Networking Terms and Topics, Simplified! - This very much to the point guide highlights some important networking terms and topics and simplifies them to us, the mere mortals.

How to Connect Two Laptops Using Bluetooth - Do you need to copy a heavy file from another laptop without using pen drive or connecting cables? Of course, this can be done by using electronic transfer methods like ftp or online data storage systems. However, these methods are not only time consuming, they often lead to increased data transfer costs. Moreover, what if there is no internet connectivity available in the immediate vicinity? Under such circumstances, you can connect two laptops through Bluetooth and exchange files seamlessly.

227 Categorized CompTIA A Plus Q and A - CompTIA A+ Certification is widely recognized as the first certification you should receive in an information technology (IT) career. Whether you are planning to specialize in PC hardware, Windows operating system management, or network management, the CompTIA A+ Certification exams measure the baseline skills you need to master in order to begin your journey toward greater responsibilities and achievements in information technology.

CompTIA A+ Certification is designed to be a "vendor-neutral" exam that measures your knowledge of industry-standard technology.

The number one goal of this Q and A tutorial is a simple one: to help you pass the 2009 version of the CompTIA A+ Certification Essentials Exam (number 220-701) and the Practical Application Exam (number 220-702), and thereby earn your CompTIA A+ Certification.

Network Topologies - Ever wonder... how are all of these file, print, fax, and computer resources connected so as to allow the typical desktop computer to access them? Network topology refers to the way networked computers and network resources are connected. The three most widely used topologies are bus, ring, and star. Note that the following network topology diagrams are logical views of the topologies they represent and don’t necessarily match the physical (electrical) interconnections on the networks.

History of TCP/IP - Internetworking with TCP/IP has been around for many years-almost as many years as Unix has been available. TCP/IP, or Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, grew out of the work that was done with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. In 1969, DARPA sponsored a project that became known as the ARPANET. This network mainly provided high-bandwidth connectivity between the major computing sites in government, educational, and research laboratories.

IP Spoofing and Sniffing - Sniffing and spoofing are security threats that target the lower layers of the networking infrastructure supporting applications that use the Internet. Users do not interact directly with these lower layers and are typically completely unaware that they exist. Without a deliberate consideration of these threats, it is impossible to build effective security into the higher levels. Sniffing is a passive security attack in which a machine separate from the intended destination reads data on a network. The term "sniffing" comes from the notion of "sniffing the ether" in an Ethernet network and is a bad pun on the two meanings of the word "ether." Passive security attack are those that do not alter the normal flow of data on a communication link or inject data into the link.

WikiLeaks, The Technical Aspect - Wikileaks has been in the news for quite some time now as it has rocked many nations, embroiling itself in controversy over the fact that it has been releasing classified documents which have been termed as potentially harmful for national security as well as international diplomacy. Amidst all the confusion related to it's ethical and moral standards, people around the world have also speculated how the site functions technically, as a site which has been so controversial, might be technologically sound as well because various steps have already been taken in order to shut the Website down but none of them have availed any results.

Brief History of Wi-Fi - Wi-Fi would certainly not exist without a decision taken in 1985 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), America's telecoms regulator, to open several bands of wireless spectrum, allowing them to be used without the need for a government license. This was an unheard-of move at the time; other than the ham radio channels, there was very little unlicensed spectrum. But the FCC, prompted by a visionary engineer on its staff, Michael Marcus, took three chunks of spectrum from the industrial, scientific and medical bands and opened them up to communications entrepreneurs.

Implement Chat Systems on an Intranet - It used to be that businesses had a major influence on what types of products and services were available to the general public. In the early days of the Internet, networking LAN technologies and needs were the driving force behind the creation of many software applications and tools that users accessed. The growing popularity of the World Wide Web with casual computer users led to a paradigm shift in how to approach usable software solutions for these users. Simple to install and use software applications such as file sharing, e-mail and instant chat programs were instantly popular.

What is Computer Networking?

A network is a collection of connected intelligent computing devices. The connection is not necessarily a fancy one. A connection between two computers by direct cabling is qualified to be a network. By this definition, a workstation which is loaded with a computer, a scanner, and a printer, is not treated as a network.

A network can consist of two computers connected together on a desk or it can consist of many Local Area Networks (LANs) connected together to form a Wide Area Network (WAN) across a continent. The key is that two or more computers are connected together by a medium and are sharing resources. These resources can be files, printers, hard?drives, or CPU number-crunching power.

A Local Area Network (LAN) is a smaller network within one location or between several buildings A Metropolitan Network (MAN, politically incorrect, no WOMAN!) is a midsize network spanning the city. A Wide Area Network (WAN) is a giant network spanning across several cities or even several continents.


Did You Know?

  • Peer to Peer networking was around even 30 years ago.
  • Internet itself has evolved from the basic home networking.
  • What was the First long distance Connection? In 1965 using a low speed dial-up telephone line, MIT researcher Lawrence G. Roberts working with Thomas Merrill, connected the TX-2 computer in Massachusetts to the Q-32 in California. The phone lines weren't quite up to the task!
  • Who coined the phrase 'World Wide Web'? Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. He's also considered by most people as the person who started the whole thing rolling.
  • How did the Internet Start and Why? It all started with the time-sharing of IBM computers in the early 1960s at universities such as Dartmouth and Berkeley in the States. People would share the same computer for their computing tasks. The Internet also received help from Sputnik! After this Russian Satellite was launched in 1957, President Eisenhower formed ARPA to advance computer networking and communication.

 



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