12 May, 2009 in
Windows by
admin
User Account Control (UAC) was introduced in Windows Vista to help increase security and improve total cost of ownership by enabling the operating system to be deployed without administrative privileges. See how Windows 7 continues the investment in UAC with changes that enhance the user experience and put users in greater control of their prompting [...]
25 Apr, 2009 in
Linux by
m17shah
Some users with limited bandwidth may want to use “sneakernet” to update from removable media (such as CD, DVD, or USB memory stick) created on a machine that has a fast internet connection and adequate disk space to hold all updates. To create a CD/DVD containing all the updates follow this procedure.
CentOS-5.2 updates are currently about 3.6 [...]
10 Apr, 2009 in
MySQL by
admin
Definition: Add column is used to add an additional column to any given table. You must specify the column name, and type. It is written as alter table [table name] add column [new column name] [type];
Also Known As: Add Column, Additional Column, New Column
Examples:
alter table icecream add column flavor varchar (20) ;
This [...]
27 Mar, 2009 in
Apache by
admin
Mod Deflate comes built into Apache, but is not enabled by default. This tutorial will explain the simplest way of enabling it and setting which mime times to compress. Mod Deflate will increase your server load, but decreases the amount of time that clients are connected and can usually reduce the page size by 60 [...]
20 Mar, 2009 in
DNS by
admin
In this section we provide some suggested configurations along with guidelines for their use. We also address the topic of reasonable option setting.
3.1. Sample Configurations
3.1.1. A Caching-only Nameserver
The following sample configuration is appropriate for a caching-only name server for use by clients internal to a corporation. All queries from outside clients [...]
26 Jan, 2009 in
Special by
admin
The classical UNIX crash dump facility dumps the memory image to the swap partition, and then provides a facility to analyze it before reusing the swap partition for swap. This is what many experienced UNIX system administrators are used to and expect.
Classical UNIX operating systems provide support for a very limited set of hardware devices. [...]
24 Jan, 2009 in
Special by
admin
Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to native machine code for execution.
The language itself derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities. [...]
24 Jan, 2009 in
Special by
admin
There seems to be a known bug with the Gnome Network Manager included with the Ubuntu 8.10 release that resets any static ip address settings that are set manually when the system is rebooted reverting back to a DHCP setup. These steps will remove the Gnome Network Manager and help you manually setup the required [...]
24 Jan, 2009 in
Special by
admin
Configure Network Interface Using Command-Line
You can configure a network interface from the command line using the networking utilities. You configure your network client hosts with the command line by using commands to change your current settings or by editing a number of system files.
Configuring DHCP address for your network card
If you want to configure DHCP [...]
24 Jan, 2009 in
Windows by
admin
On this page you’ll find links to patches & downloads for Windows XP. I do not include security patches here, those will always be listed on our Windows XP Home page, or if they are a bit older, on the More Windows XP Related Articles page.
Update for Windows XP (KB954708)
Install this update to enable XMP [...]