What you need to know about IIS 7

The future of Microsoft based web servers.

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6 Tips for Sane User Interfaces

Some tips for programmers who are forced into the position of designing user interfaces.

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Install, Enable and Configure SNMP on Windows

On Windows, the SNMP service is available by default, but is easily installed, enabled and configured.

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Tool for sending email to your cell/mobile phone

Online tool for sending a short text message to your cell/mobile phone. All you need to know is the phone number and the cell/mobile phone carrier. Works with Cingular, Sprint PCS, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, Nextel, and Verizon Wireless.

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Cell / Mobile Phone Email Address Formats

Table of cell/mobile phone email address formats and how you can send an email from your computer to your cell/mobile phone.

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Application Delays Eat Up 24% of IT Staff Time

Application delays are annoying, but the statistics presented are enough to make one realize that it reduces more than just productivity.

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Free Wireless Hotspots Are New Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

Free wireless hotspots posing as legitimate providers lurk in coffee houses, libraries, and airports.

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Spend Less Time Looking for Logs

Figuring out why a problem happened on Windows is hard, especially when the event log doesn't make it easy. This guide makes it easier.

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Managing the virtual realm

Managing servers within servers seems a little odd and a bit like being within the Matrix.

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Installation Guide to Installing Windows Server 2003

Thinking about moving to Windows Server 2003? Use this guide to pre-plan your installation.

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Pay-as-you-go grid computing brought to you by Amazon(!?)

Just when you thought Amazon was turning into a sleep giant with Google taking over the world, they wake up and offer grid computing.

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Secure, monitor and manage

The new mantra for system administrators (or really old for those who have been screaming it at management for decades).

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The Ins & Outs Of Data Center Environmental Monitoring & Security

Environmental monitoring of your systems is just as important as monitoring the software and hardware. Some good info to get you up to speed on environmental monitoring

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Microsoft Creates An Application Terminator

The program from Microsoft Research is called the TERMINATOR software verification project. Instead of running for governor of California, this tool examines your software code and applies mathematical principles to all of the loops to insure they won't hang.

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60 Performance and Optimization Tips for your Website

Learn and implement vital tips on increasing your website
â??s performance. Find out how to make general improvements, how to optimize images, tweak HTML source code, get better results from ASP and ASP.NET, tune your database, and enhance IIS.

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Website to track solar-power output

If you've ever wondered how solar panels perform in Toronto under a variety of weather conditions and seasons, you'll soon get a chance to find out.

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Six Mobile Innovations That Will Change Your Life

1. Pay By Phone 2. Commanding Presence 3. Internet Everywhere, In Everything 4. Ubiquitous Media 5. Remote Health Monitoring 6. People Tracking



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200 OK: Interpreting HTTP Status Codes

A quick reference guide to the numbers that we are all familar with, e.g. 404, 500, and more. Learn how each number is categorized and what they actually mean.

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How to Find the SMTP Email Server for an Email Address

How to determine the SMTP mail server for a given email address. This is useful for determining your own mail server or the mail server for other email addresses.

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SOA's Missing Link

"Businesses reap maximum benefit from SOA only when they can validate things are actually working 'behind the screens'"


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Troubleshooting Tools: Best of the Best

Here are the tools that your fellow administrators loved most

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Designing for Performance, Monitoring, and Optimizing

"[H]ow do we design a service and SOA with optimized performance? Here are a few tips."

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Automating your network-monitoring process

Manually checking network components can be tedious and time-consuming, but there are plenty of ways to automate the task

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10 Easy Tips to Help You Kill Your Website's Performance

How to really slow down and basically screw up your website so no one can view it.

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Custom AJAX Effects: Fading

Awesome fade effect for AJAX: "With all of the new AJAX effects frameworks popping up on the Web, have you ever wondered just how they do it?"

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Open Push Email Standards Starting to Hurt Blackberry

Blackberry needs to adhere to standards before it is left behind.

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MySQL Connectors chapter rework completed

"...reworked the Connector/MXJ and Connector/J sections of the MySQL Reference Manual, which in turn means the Connectors chapter has been completed. "

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10 steps to building your web presence

Most organisations with an online presence that don
â??t employ a professional and experienced web development partner make a plethora of mistakes that primarily begin with style over substance.


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Tales from the data centre

Whether it is server management, seamless scale-ups or DR, there is always the need for role models to look up to. Here we present three organisations which share their server implementation success stories

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DNS could slow broadband service

While broadband speed can be very fast it is only as strong as its weakest link: dns servers that are old and slow.

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Network Design Strategies

Questions to ask before you set up your network

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Incorporating Web Application Security Testing Into Your Quality Assurance

Security is more than just preventing easy to guess usernames and passwords, it starts with the QA process.

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