Deck out your home office – Network World: “Deck out your home office
Cool home office furniture and technology”
Oct 212009
Oct 012009
From NetworkWorld.com…
Barrelfish OS will speed up future multicore systems – Network World: “The OS, called Barrelfish, is still very much in a research phase, but its creators released the code earlier this month under an open-source license. Nonetheless, talk of a new OS — especially with Microsoft’s backing — sparked enough interest that many people have since downloaded the code, said Timothy Roscoe, a professor in the computer science department at ETH Z�rich”
Sep 092009
From TechRepublic.com…
Windows 7 data recovery from backup in a snap | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.com: “Recently, I loaded Windows 7 RTM on my laptop. I ran into an unexpected issue with BootMgr while installing, which reinforced the need for proper backups. Like all good IT soldiers, I did a complete system backup using the Windows 7 Create an Image Backup feature. I performed the backup to an external USB2 hard drive. The backup image gets created in .VHD format.”
Aug 212009
From TechRepublic…
Windows 7 HomeGroups provide office-style convenience to home networks | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.com: “These days it seems everything and everyone is connected to a network of some type all the time. Cell phones can get on the Internet with connections as fast as or faster than most home or business connections, and people depend on networks to share e-mail, photos, video, and conversations.”
Aug 192009
WindowsSecurity.com article explaining DirectAccess in Windows 7…
Death of VPN: “The virtual private network (VPN) was an exciting remote networking innovation; it allows remote users to connect to a private local area network (LAN) across the Internet, instead of having to dial directly in to a remote access server. By creating an encrypted tunnel, the VPN provides a way to communicate securely through the public network. However, the traditional VPN has a few drawbacks: it can be slow and is not seamless for users, and some networks, such as those provided by hotels, block VPN traffic.
DirectAccess is a new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Windows 7 client, that serves the same purpose as a traditional virtual private network without the hassle factor that’s often involved in setting up and using a VPN connection. DirectAccess does away with the need for VPN protocols such as PPTP and L2TP. It uses IPsec/IPv6 to create a secure, direct connection between a remote computer and the company LAN. In this article, we get “up close and personal” with this exciting new networking feature: how it works, what you need to use it and how it can benefit your organization.”