Used Laptop Computer: Your Quick Purchase Inspection Guide – Part 4 by Joe Duchesne
Used laptop computers are everywhere these days. How can you sift through the mass of available used laptop computers to narrow your search down to the right laptop for you? This fourth and final article strives to give you a few suggestions for your next laptop purchase. ... If the laptop you're considering doesn't have built-in wireless, you should at least have an external wireless card thrown in. ... Wireless Connectivity Built-in wireless used to be a luxury. ... Connecting to the internet and your local home network is something you'll find yourself doing a lot of in the future.

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. ... There is a sport called Wardriving witch involves driving in your car with a wireless network card to find wireless networks. ... The best thing to do for protection is to understand the basics of your network and if you want wireless make sure you have WEP enabled.

What Exactly is an Intel Centrino Mobile Notebook? by Peter Stewart
There has been a lot of confusion over the use of the term Intel Centrino and what it actually means. An Intel Centrino mobile notebook is actually a combination of Intel products, including what is marked as the Intel Centrino mobile laptop processor, put together to create a wireless... When wireless networking became popular, Intel introduced the Intel Centrino mobile notebook concept to make it easier for people to get a wireless networking computer. ... The specifications for an Intel Centrino Mobile Notebook cover an Intel chipset, a Pentium M Processor (often referred to as an Intel...

Windows Server 2003 Security by Benjamin Hargis
Windows Server 2003 has some of the following features to help protect your corporate enviroment: There is now forest trust that allows you to authenticate other companies in your WAN thru Active Directory, this simplifies some security issues for security and network administrators. ... You want to know if your really giving your credit card information to E-Bay or E-fake. ... You can now delegate what services can access other resources on your network. ... Windows Server 2003 now helps with Wireless 802.1x., you can enable PEAP which is protected EAP for authentication.

Take Your Laptop For A Walk On The Wireless Side by Laramie Cahill
Wireless internet access is truly the wave of the future and depending on where you live the future could be now. Wireless "hotspots" really are popping up somewhere on a daily basis. Not that I'm complaining, because having the ability to access the internet via a wireless connection is a great... Public and university campus libraries are increasingly offering wireless access and if you're a student there's a good chance that your whole university campus is wireless enabled - or will be soon. ... Small Wireless ISP Fee You may find that some of the larger hotspot networks with multiple,...

WinXPDisableZeroConfigation.exe or WinXPDisableZeroConfigation by John Hutchison
Well that's a long process name! Having just upgraded my network to a 11g network I found that my computers CPU usage was up from around the 3% mark it was now using about 55% some other people have reported much more cpu use than that!. What the heck was going on! ... Some sypware malware hide up as WinXPDisableZeroConfigation.exe, the real size of WinXPDisableZeroConfigation is 32768 bytes To remove uninstall the Belkin utility and let Windows manage the wireless configuration don't uninstall the drivers for your card.

Handheld Computers Guide - What to Know When Purchasing Your New PDA by Donny Duncan
Handheld computer devices, also known as PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant) are quickly becoming a necessity for millions of people around the globe. The ability to replace your address book, calendar, calculator, and even some functions of their home computers, can be absolutely priceless. ... Card Slots - This can be very important if you want your handheld computer to sport a lot of accessories like wireless network cards, and memory sticks. ... As long as it has a card reader slot of some kind though, this can easily be upgraded, as the price of memory cards has dropped considerably,...

How to Choose The Right Laptop Accessories? by Titus Hoskins
The notebook computer is coming of age. For the first time in history, notebooks or laptops are out-selling their bigger cousins, desktop computers. The rise in popularity of the notebook computer can be contributed to many factors: drop in prices, stiff competition, aggressive marketing, but... Wireless Card Most laptops and notebooks now come with a wireless card. ... If your notebook doesn't have a wireless card, you can get a rather inexpensive 802.11b Linksys PC Card adapter for under $50.

Buying a Laptop by Sezer Bozkurt
Purchasing a laptop computer is not an easy job to do because there are so many important things that should be considered before purchasing. Besides the common things that are shared by desktops such as type of CPU, MHZ of processor, size of RAM, size and type of hard disk, brand and support,... Some high quality laptops have several connectivity options such as wireless network cards (to connect to wireless networks), Centrino technology (internet connectivity almost anywhere) and much more. ... The last thing you want is to be in the middle of an important meeting and your laptop dying.

Choosing The Right Notebook Computer by Peter Stewart
Notebook computers have incresed in popularity over the last few years. This buldging market for notebook computers gives you more choice than ever before. The flipside is that the wide range makes it that much more difficult to choose the right notebook computer without a little knowledge. ... There should be a convenient way to turn off the wireless card as they suck a lot of battery power when in use and can be turned off when not in use. ... Essential extras include USB ports, wireless networking capabilities, network port and modem port.