One of the more challenging aspects of working with network connections is the ability to test the health and usability of connections. Today, connections are available in all sorts of ways and locations. Often with this sort of ubiquity, we’re not able to tell if this Internet connection is going to be reliable. The ICSI Netalyzr is one such utility that can help in gathering more details.
I had been hearing (for some time) about this new offering from Blackberry and subsequently Bell called Blackberry Unite. It is essentially a scaled back version of the Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) targeted at home users.
Welcome to this new device are features like a camera, a gps device and the inclusion of media players as well as memory expandability. Some features not so welcome are the new keyboard layout, removal of the spinning wheel and addition of the track ball. Along the way, some unexpected surprises
One of the more interesting services out there on a server is the DNS service. The DNS resolves human readable names (calwell.ca) to an IP address (127.0.0.1). This service makes use of a huge distributed database on the Internet to keep the list of names and IP addresses up to date.
In this article I’ll look at a few that I’ve come across and let you know the best I’ve seen so far.
I’ve been wanting to try this for some time now, and today I decided to venture into the realm of installing Lotus Domino Server on a Linux Box. Today I decided to use a version of Domino I downloaded from notes.net as well as the Red Hat Linux 7.0 distribution. From all reports I’ve seen, […]
The next version of Office is about to undergo another name style change. We started off with Office 3.0, then we ended up with Office 97 and 2000 and now Office will Don the name of Office XP (short for X Experience). You can consider this version Office 2002 or even Office 10.0, as it is strewn all over the application and is registry entries.
The following article describes the process of understanding the usefulness of the different Technologies that make up the core product called Windows DNA and the technical usefulness of these products. Microsoft seems to have won the fight to makes its products more obscure and unintelligible.