How to register your domain name
When you launch a new website you must register a unique domain name with an authorized registrar. Here’s how to do it.
Category Archives: Glossary
What is Wardriving ?
Imagine a car equipped with nothing more than a laptop computer, a portable GPS receiver, and a wireless network card slowly rolls through your neighborhood. Unknown to any onlookers, this is no ordinary vehicle; rather, it is a wardriving machine.
Who doesn’t love NETDOM?
This command-line tool enables administrators to manage Windows domains and trust relationships from the command line. This tool is very handy for scripted installs, updates, adds/removes, and general info gathering. Command Description Netdom add Adds a workstation or server account to the domain. Netdom computername Manages the primary and alternate names for a computer. This command can safely… Read More »
What is an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) ?
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) are a necessary part of any strategy for enterprise security. What are Intrusion Detection systems? CERIAS, The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, defines it this way:
What is a Wiki?
Wiki is web server software that allows users to contribute content. Collaboration is the key to Wiki, which is designed as a powerful system for online communities to build web pages and web sites. Unlike blogs and forums, all users are allowed to contribute and edit existing content.
What is OLED?
Short for organic light-emitting diode, a display device that sandwiches carbon-based films between two charged electrodes, one a metallic cathode and one a transparent anode, usually being glass.
Top 4 Reasons for PC Slowdowns
Remember when your PC was fresh out of the box and super-fast? Those were the days, when boot times were less than the time it takes to hard-boil an egg.
Avoid Getting Ripped Off Online
Online security is one of the top catch phrases these days, but hardly anybody knows what it means and worse, most home computer users think security only applies to corporations and online businesses.
7 tips for choosing the right blog software
Choosing the right blog software for your new blog requires that you ask yourself some questions and make a list of all of the features and tools you need as well as your budget. Once you have this information written down you will be prepared to start shopping for blog software. However, keep in mind the following seven… Read More »
Home Networking Lab: Cables types and their purpose
One of the most common questions I get from CCNA and CCNP candidates who are setting up their own home labs is “What cables will I need?” The answer is “It depends.” As you know from your exam studies, the physical layout of your lab is what determines the cables you’ll need. Let’s take a look at the… Read More »