Create A Huge File

In: Windows Vista| Windows XP

18 Feb 2010

You can create a file of any size using nothing more than what’s supplied with Windows. Start by converting the desired file size into hexadecimal notation. You can use the Windows Calculator in Scientific mode do to this. Suppose you want a file of 1 million bytes. Enter 1000000 in the calculator and click on [...]

How To: Change Your Ip In Less Then 1 Minute

In: Windows Vista| Windows XP

18 Feb 2010

1. Click on “Start” in the bottom left hand corner of screen
2. Click on “Run”
3. Type in “command” and hit ok
You should now be at an MSDOS prompt screen.
4. Type “ipconfig /release” just like that, and hit “enter”
5. Type “exit” and leave the prompt
6. Right-click on “Network Places” or “My Network Places” on your desktop.
7. [...]

APACHE: Performance Tuning

In: Linux

21 May 2009

MaxClients defines how many simultaneous requests can be served. Any connection requests from browsers that come in after that will be queued. Default hard limit of 256.
Is ok to set high for static content, but bad for rendered pages.
MaxSpareServers
MinSpareServers
StartServers
ServerLimit
Thrashing where the system is just swapping pages from physical memory to virtual memory (on disk), and [...]

Politics 2.0: Effect of America’s first digital president

In: Internet Politics

18 May 2009

By Matthew Fraser and Soumitra Dutta
Thought leaders at INSEAD
Barack Obama’s electoral triumph was the first American presidential election won on the Web. If Franklin Delano Roosevelt was America’s first radio president and John F. Kennedy was the country’s first television president, Barack Obama is its first Internet president.
This watershed was largely overlooked during the presidential [...]

Don’t Let Web Sites Track You

In: Security

13 May 2009

Cookies are small files that web sites store on your computer’s disk. They allow web sites to store information about your interaction with them. For example, they might store the data required for you to purchase items across the several web pages this involves.
However, cookies – originally called tracking cookies – can also be used [...]

Basic Computer Security Tips

In: Security

12 May 2009

•Back up your documents. It doesn’t matter if you use a USB drive, a CD, a ZIP disk, a floppy disk, or even another computer. Important data should be backed up on something, so if your computer crashes you won’t loose it.
•Make sure you have a firewall, especially on wireless connections at public [...]

Adware, Spyware, and Virus Removal

In: Security

7 May 2009

Documentation in this section covers adware, spyware, virus, and other malware removal. When removing hostile programs, there are two basic types of removal methods which are.
* Automatic Malware Removal
* Manual Malware Removal
Whether you remove the malware automatically or manually, caution is strongly advised and you should follow a set procedure in doing this.
Cautions and Recommended [...]

Vista: Implementing Parental Controls

In: Windows Vista

4 May 2009

If you’re working with a home network, chances are that you have children who share your computer or who have their own computer. Either way, it’s smart to take precautions regarding the content and programs that they can access. Locally, this might take the form of blocking access to certain programs (such as your financial [...]

Computer Maintenance, Safety and User Tips

In: Computer

2 May 2009

This document is designed to help you be more efficient and provide greater security to the computer, and your account (netID). Following these suggestions should help minimize the
number of viruses and defects that infect your machine.

Desktop
The computer Desktop is actually a file that grows and decreases in size, depending on your activities on the computer. [...]

SEO:Off-page Optimization

In: SEO

30 Apr 2009

Secret #1: Get other sites to link to you. Each time another website links to you, they are in essence sending a vote to the search engines indicating your importance. This is especially important to Google who puts a significant amount of weight on the value of links from other websites. The more sites that [...]

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