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Vista: Command Line Networking Tools [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

August 18th, 2008 [Sayed]

Windows Vista along with other windows operating systems provides 12 command-line networking tools that can be used to manage different aspects of networking.

• getmac – Displays the MAC Address
• hostname – Displays the computer Name
• ipconfig – Displays the IP address, subnet mask and gateway for each network adapter associated with the TCP/IP. Refresh DNS and DHCP Settings.
• nslookup – For testing DNS servers (installed locally/remotely)
• net – Provides different network functionalities
• netstat – Displays protocol statistics and TCP/IP network connections
• netsh – For viewing and altering the network configuration settings
• pathping – traceroute and ping
• nbtstat – Displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP connections using NetBIOS over TCP/IP
• Ping – Checks connection status, measures data transfer time
• route – manipulates routing tables
• tracert – Identifies connectivity problems between the local computer and a network address

DHCP: How to configure a DHCP server in Linux [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

August 17th, 2008 [Sayed]

• DHCP: How to configure a DHCP server in Linux
• Configure a DHCP Server

DNS: How to configure a DNS server in Linux [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

August 17th, 2008 [Sayed]

• Must Read: Understand DNS Servers and How to Configure DNS Servers
• DNS: How to configure a DNS server in Linux

What to know to get an overview on Video on Demand [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

14th August, 2008 [Sayed]

This short-note is on - what you need to know about video on demand?

What is it? Supply video content on users' demand

What are the variations of video on demand? IVOD, Push VOD, Store and forward and similar.

How video on demand works?
--Tasks by the users: select video and play
--Tasks by the company: supply video in real time, store videos

What are the devices required at client end?
-Remote, Tv, Modem, Set-top box, High speed internet

What are the devices required at company end?
--Storage to store movies like RAID, Farm storage
--Software support to accept, reject client requests
--software support to encode software and send [decode at client terminal]

The architecture the company uses
--centralized servers
--centralized but local buffers at different network sites
--distributed servers, work independently but co-operate and share storage also balance loads

Connection technology?
--Client to company
-----cable, fibre, co-ax

--Company internal?? fibre, cable

Backbone
--fibre or cable and why?

Network architecture in the backbone?
--is it Sonet or ATM; and why

--What are the encoding technologies?
---ADSL, HFC and why??

How to improve performance?
--Areas of Concerns: Buffering, encoding standards, high speed storage, algorithms that require less seek time, networks that provide less jitter and high speed, any caching or proxy will help or not, using p2p will improve performance or not

Some management quotes [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

"Do not give up when you meet the first obstacle. Many a time there will be heated discussions. As long as there is trust, even with differing opinions, you know that you can keep at it until you reach a solution."

"Make sure that you are not so tied to your ideas that you cannot see a better solution. Be able to work toward compromise."

"If you are not in the right place to grow, you will die"

Reference:Fifty Stories The Ugly Truth About Managing People: 50 Must-Get-Right Management Challenges...and How to Really Handle Them by Ruth King

How to create your own VOIP network/business [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

• How to create your own VOIP network (i.e. Business)

Microsoft Project Tutorials [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

7th August, 2008 [Sayed]

• Video clips/tutorials on Microsoft Project
• Video clips/tutorials on Microsoft Project

Starting Mobile Application Development with J2ME [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

please check:

• http://java.sun.com/javame/index.jsp
• Download:http://java.sun.com/products/sjwtoolkit/download.html
• Overview: http://java.sun.com/javame/technology/index.jsp
• Getting Started: http://developers.sun.com/mobility/allarticles/

Software Development and Software Engineering for Agriculture Industries [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

August 5th, 2008 [Sayed]

• Software Engineering Techniques Applied to Agricultural Systems: An Object-Oriented and UML Approach
• Interactive computer software development for leaf area measurement

Java Skills for Job [ More in this category ] [Add your comments]

5th August, 2008 [Sayed]

• AWT
• Swing
• JSF
• Applet
• Midlet
• JDBC
• JSP
• Servlet
• Java Beans
• EJB
• J2ME
• RMI
• JNDI
• Network Programming
• XML processing
• Web Services and SOAP
• JavaFX
• Java Connector
• Java Mail
• Java AVK (Application Verification Kit)
• Java ACC
• Java Message Service API
• Java Persistence API
• Java Transaction API
• Java Transaction Service
• Hibernate
• Struts
• Spring
• Eclipse
• Netbeans IDE
• IntelliJ
• IBM Websphere RAD Workspace
• BEA Weblogic Workspace
• Tomcat
• JBOSS
• Websphere
• BEA Weblogic
• Sun Java Server
• Ant
• Maven

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