Category: Routers & networks
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Creating a RAID-1 on OpenSUSE
L’article existe aussi en français I have always be willing to test-run RAID technology for the storage of the files on my personal LAN. This technology has the advantage of being far more secure than the usual hard disc storage. By using more than one disc drive, RAID allows to gain additional security. In short,…
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Windows 2000: Network drives are much faster than network shortcuts
I just noticed a small thing in Windows: Everything points to the fact that if I connect a network drive to a server directory (from the Tools… menu of the file explorer), the acess to this newly created drive letter (R:\) is much faster than access to its direct equivalent shortcut (\\Server\directory\). I don’t know…
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ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand
Last Summer, you read the saga of The Pirate bay, Swedish Bittorrent tracker that was raided by the local police force upon request/complaint of the music industry majors (there is indeed a large number of links to pirated music and video on http://www.thepiratebay.org/). But after moving quickly to Netherlands, the server came back to Sweeden…
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ENIAC is 60!
The computer that really started the revolution of our societies, ENIAC, officially turned 60 in 2006. Before closing the door on this year, I wanted to celebrate this birthdate with its museum. All that without forgetting that those of us who are more than 40-year old saw the birth of pocket electronic calculators. With ENIAC,…
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YouTube & Google will kill the TV
Now that Google has bought YouTube, the issue is really what is going to happen. It is not enough to see a lot of traffic (YouTube has tens of millions of users rushing in to look at a myriad of online videos) to make a good business model (look at the 2000 Internet bubble that…
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iPhone launched… by Linksys, not Apple
Already a great marketing success. While everybody was expecting the announcement of a new VoIP (Voice-over-IP) phone set by Apple under the name of iPhone, there is a product launched under that exact name by… Linksys. The networking company is stealing all the publicity from Apple in a coup. But it is not only a…
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FrontPage is dead, long live FrontPage!
finally, it’s happened! Microsoft announced officially the end of FrontPage (Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer will come in Spring to replace it). As a matter of fact, FrontPage did not really succeed in penetrating the pro market for web designers. Its utterly simplistic approach to web design was obviously far…
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Network traffic: BitMeter to replace DU-meter
I have been testing DU-meter as a way to display the network traffic around my computer. It shows a nice little graph to present the network traffic in a very usable/understandable way like here: This graph is updated in real-time which means that color bar allow you to recognize incoming or outgoing traffic, but this…
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Firefox 3 already
Firefox 2 is hardly out that developers are already working hard on the new version 3 as shown by the apparition of an alpha version on the FTP server. Some visible improvements: Bookmarks will be replaced with “places” that will end in a left-side menu (an innovation to be tested). Tabs will be easier to…