Last Updated on 5 June 2015, Total: 64 Blog Posts
This post is not really about windows networking. It is rather about a fun way to spend time ;-). Pocket UFO is a remake of a classic turn based strategy X-COM Enemy Unknown (UFO Defense). It is available for Pocket PC and Windows Mobile. This game has pretty decent graphics (I used images available from the official site): The gameplay... Read More
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-January 16, 2007-Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today introduced the world's fastest hard drive - the Savvio 15K drive, the new 15K-rpm addition to the Savvio family of 2.5-inch Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) enterprise drive solutions. The Savvio 15K drive provides the highest hard drive performance density and reliability while ensuring ultra-low power consumption, reducing thermal loads in data centers... Read More
Melissa (myria) found an interesting issue with Skype: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=27. She claims that the application reads BIOS on the start up. This certainly looks suspicious and It would be interesting to see whether Skype developers address this claim... Read More
On behalf of windowsnetworking.com I would like to congratulate all systems administrators on the occasion of SAAD, System Administrator Appreciation Day. May all your servers be stable and trouble free! May your users be intelligent and patient!... Read More
TFT monitors are everywhere. Corporate and home users are migrating to new monitor technology.Unfortunately along with quality monitors provided by well known manufacturers there are are other companies which supply inferior screens at low prices.It is easy to understand that the company or a person is trying to save money, however it might result in inferior products purchased.There is a... Read More
KEMP has built a large and loyal install base across a range of market segments, applications and geographies. These include a large number of customers who have deployed KEMP's LoadMaster load balancers in conjunction with Microsoft workloads. As a part of the solution for Exchange, Lync or SharePoint a key component has historically been Microsoft's Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG)... Read More
Steve Jobs published a short essay named " Thoughts on Music" criticizing concepts of DRM protection for media files. You can access it here: http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ It is interesting to see this sudden change because previously Apple always tried to use various types of protection to restrict iPod and Apple users. I think that more people will be interested in purchasing... Read More
VMware published a report comparing performance of various versions of Xen hypervisor against its ESX server. You can read the report here: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/hypervisor_performance.pdf Naturally ESX won in the report ( If VMware lost i guess they would not publish it). In response to this report Simon Crosby, CTO of Xen Source, wrote his opinion defending Xen and questioning some of... Read More
ComputerWorld Australia published an interesting article on virtualization: A Virtual Breeze. This article would be useful for IT managers or system administrators who are only thinking about implementation of virtual servers in their IT environment with practical examples of implementations and opinions from IT managers. The article describes various aspects of virtualization such as Hardware used Reasons to virtualize particular... Read More
Picture resizing is a common task that users and administrators (Especially webmasters) have to deal with. Commercial applications such as Photoshop can perform this task flawlessly however they have high cost and excessive functionality. VSO Image Resizer is a free utility that can resize images and convert them in various formats. The products homepage offers a good description of all... Read More