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Windows 7 Released Today

It’s here – for the first time since 2007, Microsoft will release a new Operating System. The newest version of Windows is arriving today (October 22, 2009). I’ll be giving you some of the more important details about this new version of Windows and some of the implications of your choices.

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Free Network Diag: The ICSI Netalyzr (help us, help you)

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.

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BIND 8 for Windows NT/2000

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.