Last Updated on 5 June 2015, Total: 64 Blog Posts
PDF format became universally accepted format for document exchange. The format is well documented and supported. Acrobat Reader is a well known application for reading PDFs. There is also Acrobat Professional which is a great toll that can produce PDFs but it is quite expensive. There are other applications that can produce PDFs, but they are either expensive or have... Read More
Preston Gralla, the author of Windows Vista in a Nutshell , wrote a short article for PC World recapping hidden costs that you may face when upgrading to Windows Vista : http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128930-page,1/ar...e.html... Read More
BOSTON, MA - 20 Jun 2007: At Enterprise 2.0, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the availability of IBM Lotus Quickr, team collaboration software that includes IBM's first commercially available wiki and integration with everyday office applications from Lotus and Microsoft. A common challenge among business computer users is that they are forced to leave their favorite application environment to collaborate... Read More
John Heasman, a researcher from NGSSoftware, wrote an interesting article about PCI rootkits, i.e. rootkits existing in the firmware of PCI cards. The article describes how this type of exploit can enter the system, what can be done by the rootkit. John Heasman also describes various preventative measures that can help against these rootkits. It is interesting to note that... Read More
This is a short guide on how to install SSH server in Windows operating system. SSH is an abbreviation from Secure Shell. You can read a decent article about SSH on Wikipedia.org. SSH is a convenient protocol for secure communications. It supports port tunneling, file transfer (through SCP or SFTP), remote console. We ll implement SSH server using CopSSH server,... Read More
ASUS should be releasing a new motherboard P5LD2-VM SE based on older Intel 945G which should be compatible with Core 2 Duo CPUs. It is rumoured that the older chipset has been made compatible by using updated VRM (Voltage Regulator Module) module.This new motherboard should be offering good performace while being cheaper than motherboards based on newer chipsets.Source: Clubic Technorati... Read More
Tom's Hardware published an interesting report comparing Windows Vista and Windows XP in various areas. You can find the report here: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/01/29/xp-vs-vista/ Personally I am not surprised that Vista performed slower in many applications compared to XP. After all, Vista is quite revolutionary and i guess that it has a lot of extra code to stay compatible with previous applications... Read More
Keyfinder Thing Lite is a tiny free utility that can be used to display keys of various Microsoft programs, Windows, various games and some other utilities. This utility is useful to check whether software keys are matching with stickers on the PC and boxes. It is also a good tool to get your keys back in case you ve lost... Read More
Welcome to the Windows Networking blog! The Windows Networking team will be blogging here about anything to do with Windows Networking, including News, product tips, Admin tricks and more... Read More
Lighttpd is a very small and very efficient web server. It is a simple and powerful alternative to IIS and Apache web servers. You can see some benchmarks on Lighttpd benchmark page. There are also links to other tests on this page so developers are pretty honest about Lighttpd performance. Lighttpd is very easy to install and easy to configure... Read More