Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
GNU’s wget command line program for downloading is very popular, and not without reason. While you can use it simply to retrieve a single file from a server, it is much more powerful than that and offers many more features.
One of the more advanced features in wget is the mirror ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
It's not only mission-critical business information that should be backed up. The data on your home PC needs to be backed up as well. But how should you choose between the traditional method of saving files on storage media yourself and a newer method of storing your data offsite with ...
Posted in Hardware, Networking, Security, Software | No Comments
Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for its own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..) Here's how to get it back:Click Start > Run and type gpedit.msc
This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you think that today's high-speed Internet connections are fast, wait till you see what cable operators plan. The industry's standard-settings unit, CableLabs, plans to endorse this month technology that will let operators boost speeds 400% to 1,600%, over their existing lines.
Motorola and Cisco are among the companies offering alternative ...
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