Mapping Drives Within A Network by John Vizaniaris
One thing that everyone should do, whether it is a home or business network, is map shared folders to other computers in the network. This enables users to create shortcuts of the shared folder, provides for quick access and ease of use. Once the shared folder is mapped it will appear as a... Left Click "Map Network Drive". ... The top line will contain the drive letter the computer is going to assign to the mapped drive. ... Select the check box that says "Share This Folder On The Network" and "Allow Network Users To Change My Files".

Connecting a Laptop to Multiple Networks by Alexander Lee
Having a notebook or laptop provides the freedom to be truly mobile. You can work in many places and situations. But this brings an annoyance: if you move your notebook between various different networks, you always have to change network settings. Recently my employer has issued me a brand new... Windows 2000 comes with the "netsh" utility that gives you the possibility to "dump" all network settings into a file which you can later use to restore your complete Network settings. ... To Save the current Settings use "netsh -c interface dump >netset1.txt" To Load the Settings again use...

Mapping Software: Putting Data Visualization on the Map by Joe Miller
Mapping Software Improves Data Visualization From the outset, it is important to clarify exactly what mapping software is and what it has to do with data visualization. If you are looking for driving directions for your next road trip, this is not the article for you. ... For example, you may move your map from the “home” link to the “about us” link of a website and see the “home” menu disappear and the “about us” menu pop out. ... .NET Even WWW networks using TCP/IP network protocols using .net technology can interface with mapping software to bring .net charts, .net graphs, and .net...

SyncUp – A File/Folder Synchronizer For Windows by Usha Rangaramanujam
SyncUp, a file synchronizer is designed to assist the home and advanced users. The product has a simple and familiar windows explorer type interface for easy file handling. Further, the Scan Results provides a detailed preview of the files for synchronization. ... It allows you to synchronize files or folders from the Source location to Update location of the same hard drive, another hard drive, mapped network or across any removable media and vice-versa. ... It also lets you to synchronize files/folders between two PCs by using any one of the following cables: Parallel cable, Direct...

First Rate Backup Devices by Buddy Shearer
I was on eBay not too long ago and I came across a sale of laptop hard drives for $25. A total of four came with the purchase so I bought the whole lot. It turned out to be the best buy this year. I quickly turned these 6 GB hard disks into backup storage devices for our executives. ... All to often I have need to transfer large files only to see that they were too big for a CD or floppy drive and even to big for a thumb drive. ... Even though I was on a medium sized network, I did not have the luxury of being able to have drives mapped in a shared capacity due to security concerns.

ARP, MAC, Poisoning, & WiFi by Brian Wilson
In this paper we will cover the basics on Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Media Access Control Addresses (MAC), Wireless (WiFi), and layer 2 communications. I hope to explain how a “Man in the Middle Attack” works. The common name for this is ARP poisoning, MAC poisoning, or Spoofing. ... Most network engineers need to sniff the protocols on a network to make sure the data is flowing correct. ... A host connected to an Ethernet network would have an Ethernet interface (NIC) to handle connections to the outside world, and a loop back interface to send packets to itself.

Windows Defender Released Today - Replaces Microsoft Antispyware by Ken Savage
Windows Defender (formally Microsoft Antispyware) Beta 2 has been released. Downloaded, installed, scanned with it, first impressions are it looks a lot nicer, cleaner simpler interface. Windows Defender needs Automatic Update service running to get definition updates, and downloads them... Only 8.4 gigs on this drive and it took 23 minutes to scan with a full system scan, spending like 22 and a half minutes on just this drive. ... Gives loads of info about everything, every startup item, every running process, every open network connection.

Timing IT Audits by Joshua Feinberg
IT audits should be short and sweet. Typically within about four hours, you should know exactly what is going on within the company's system, what needs to be done next, how you are going to prioritize the to-do list and what additional hardware, software or other products the company needs to buy. ... Looking at two to four representative PCs will give you a good idea of what is happening with configurations, drive mappings, network protocols, and what kind of shape they are in. ... You can find out who these people are by asking your company contact directly.

IT Audits: How Long Do They Take? by Joshua Feinberg
Keep IT audits to within a half a day as a starting point. If there’s more exploratory work that needs to be done, that should be an added fee and done at a later time. Keep IT Audits Short and Sweet Generally within four hours on-site for IT audits, you usually figure out exactly what’s going... And you should definitely look at mine because I’m the owner of the company.” You should be able to look at two to four PCs and get a pretty good idea as to what’s actually going on there with configurations, drive mappings, network protocols, whether they’re in relatively good shape or whether...

A Virtualisation Article by Michael Hart
An analogy: One bus can carry 30 passengers, but cars are now so relatively cheap we all travel by car. That’s up to 30 vehicles that need maintaining,rather than just one. If you can equip the bus with all the facilities you get in the cars (eg airline style seats with all the personal... Network virtualisation refers to the ability to manage traffic over a network shared among different enterprises. ... This approach allows dynamic, efficient and available computing resources A Storage Area Network (SAN) is a heterogeneous collection of storage devices linked to the local area network...