Category Archives: Glossary

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.

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 »

Introduction to BGP

BGP is one of the most complex topics you’ll study when pursuing your CCNP, if not the most complex.  One thing to keep in mind though, is that no Cisco technology is impossible to understand if you just break it down and understand the basics before you start trying to understand the more complex configurations.

DNS and the IP Name-Server command

DNS behaviors of a Cisco router are important topics for both the CCNA exam and real-world production networks, and you probably didn’t know there were so many DNS details before you began studying for the exam! In this tutorial, we’ll look at the ip name-server command and its proper usage.

Using Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

One of the first things you do when you start studying for the CCNA exam is memorizing a list of port numbers and the protocols that run on those ports. If you’re an experienced networker, you know most of the protocols that are mentioned – DNS, DHCP, FTP, SMTP, and so on. But there’s one protocol that you… Read More »

Route Summarization

Preparing to pass the CCNA exam and earn this important Cisco certification?  Route summarization is just one of the many skills you’ll have to master in order to earn your CCNA.  Whether it’s RIP version 2, OSPF, or EIGRP, the CCNA exam will demand that you can flawlessly configure route summarization.