DDOS and Other Attacks

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is an attack on a network which is designed to bring it to a halt. This is done by sending useless traffic to a specific service/port on a server.

Windows Indexing Service

The Windows Indexing Service provides you with the ability to perform advanced searches on directories located on your computer and on shared directories on the network. The Indexing Service was introduced with IIS (Internet Information Services) and is now installed with Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Create a Workspace in a Small Area

Don”t have a separate room you can designate as a home office? You can create a comfortable and functional computer work station in remarkably little space. A corner of your living room or bedroom, even a spare closet, can provide plenty of room.

Creating Quality Websites

Websites, there are literally billions of them out there in cyber-space. How many of them do you go to and just think this is boring, bland, or hard to use? It seems like too many to mention. So what makes a good website? I reckon it’s about interaction. You’ve got to make the visitor interested. You’ve got to… Read More »

Create Your Own Digital Library

The moment you got your first digital camera, your view of the world has totally changed.  You always seem to see something beautiful or artistic in your surroundings, worthy of being captured in pixels.  You experiment quite a lot and keep on loading your pictures in your computer.  Until one day, you thought of working on a project. … Read More »

How to Register a Domain Name

When you launch a new website you must register a unique domain name with an authorized registrar. When the internet was first starting, all domain names and IP addresses were registered through one organization, Internic.  Eventually Network Solutions took over the role as “keeper” of the internet domain names. Today, there are hundreds of websites where you can… Read More »

Unable to Turn Off Out of Office

After turning on your Out of Office assistant, you may find that it won”t turn back off. You may be presented with the following error when attempting to turn it off:

Change IE Start Page

System administrators will almost always set the default home page for the browser to the corporate website or intranet when building a machine. This is just a small registry hack that will set the home page for IE6 or IE7. You could probably use this in a logon script to set to home page on all users when… Read More »

Allow IE More Download Threads

Have you ever tried to download more than 2 files from the same website and noticed the third download doesn”t start until one of the prior two are done? The reason for this is that the HTTP 1.1 spec says that only two connections may be allowed at a time, so your browser adheres to that limit. We… Read More »