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Good weekend kiddies,
Comodore64 back again to shed some light for any newly ordained Mac users that are carrying over from the M$ world. Since Mac is gaining a kind of strangle hold on the industry, I’m pretty sure there are a lot of guys like myself who have a PC for certain purposes and a [...]
I would like to monitor event logs on multiple windows machines – maybe ping them every so often?
I used to use something called Emon but it seems pretty outdated. I looked at bigBrother but it seems too expensive.
Do you have a solution?
Have you heard of VMWare??
If you are game then keep on [...]
For those of you out there still living in the dark ages, and still using Telnet on Windows because you haven’t found a more viable alternative (You know who you are) We have some good news for you!
Maybe you haven’t decided to switch to a more secure solution because you use Windows Servers and Windows [...]
So I get asked on a regular basis how many addresses can i get from a /24 subnet or what does 255.255.255.0 mean.
Let me break it down for you real quick like:
When you use 255.255.255.0 as your subnet you are limiting yourself to a network containing all the same ip’s except for the last number. [...]
I need to open a port on my router or firewall. How do i do that? What is that? Should I Be Scared??
New Years is almost upon us and the Admin needs some rest – maybe a day off? Yeah right we have even more emails today! This has been a big year for the AtA gang – stay tuned for more of our geeky flavored content in 2008.
Our reader Diego has an application on his computer [...]
Davey writes to us that he needs to get access to his home Vista machine over the wireless network and it would make his life easy if he can do it – like he does it in XP or 2000.
Dave connects using a browser or command line to file://machine/drive$. As we have covered before the [...]
So it turns out there is a second Internet for the real important people behind our technological advancements. And today they have hit record breaking speeds of 100 gbps. Researchers are predicting that it will hit 10x that in the near future. We all ready knew Asia was light years ahead of us, bandwidth wise [...]
So a lot of my end users don’t know what N.A.T. is . And if you haven’t guessed it – it’s not what is pictured on the left! Most end users have no idea what the difference is between their external and internal IP addresses or Public vs. Private. Chances are they will never know [...]
So you’ve just finished rolling out 500 new desktops using disk imaging, and you’re keeping them updated using WSUS. How are you going to monitor the overall status and health of your network?
There is a wealth of excellent network monitoring software available, both commercial and open source. One problem with many of them is that [...]
So you’ve just finished rolling out 500 new desktops using disk imaging. How are you going to keep them updated? As you know, Microsoft releases updates on the second Tuesday of each month. You need a way to approve and install these updates on all your desktops and servers, and you need to do it [...]
Unique and complex passwords are great and easy to come up with but remembering them – Now that’s a totally different story! Have you ever considered using password phrases instead? Full sentences are easier to remember than obscure characters and have many benefits. Keep on reading grasshopper…
Did you know that Windows allows you to use [...]
Check it out – SYSinternals was aquired by Microsoft and they have been slowly integrating their tools into MS OS’s.
You can find all of their tools here.
We use a lot of these on a daily basis like WHOIS and PSTools, PSMon, PageDefrag, SDelete, PSKill, Handle, and PSInfo among others. These programs make the admin’s job [...]
We have all been there: stuck on a job impacting issue – the suits got you up against a wall and you are worried that they will can you if you don’t do it right. The pressure’s on. and this guy wouldn’t even let me print his name so we shall call him Anon:
I need [...]
For those of you out there still living in the dark ages, and are still using Telnet because you haven’t found a viable alternative (You know who you are). Maybe you haven’t decided to switch to a more secure solution because you use Windows Servers and Windows hasn’t adopted using SSH. Maybe you think SSH [...]
Bandwidth monitor NetMeter graphs how much data’s going in and out of your PC over the internet.
This morning lifehacker feautered freemeter, another bandwidth tracker with some extra networking bells and whistles. NetMeter is more barebones, but its charts and reports are a bit more grokable than Freemeter’s. What I really like is NetMeter’s bandwidth usage [...]
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