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IP Addressing tutorial 2007-12-23 05:11:00 An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique identifier for a node or host connection on an IP network. An IP address is a 32 bit binary number usually represented as 4 decimal values, each representing 8 bits, in the range 0 to 255 (known as octets) separated by decimal points. This is known as "dotted decimal" notation. Example: 140.179.220.200 It is sometimes useful to view the values in their binary form. 140 .179 .220 .20010001100.10110011.11011100.11001000 Every IP address consists of two parts, one identifying the network and one identifying the node. The Class of the address and the subnet mask determine which part belongs to the network address and which part belongs to the node address.Address Classes There are 5 different address classes. You can determ Read more:Addressing
Yahoo China slammed again for piracy 2007-12-23 05:04:00 YahooChina
lost another round in a legal battle as a court in Beijing upheld a ruling that the company is infringing on copyright laws by allowing pirated music to be downloaded, according to the industry group suing Yahoo China. "The ruling against Yahoo China is extremely significant in clarifying copyright rules for Internet music services in China," John Kennedy, chairman and CEO of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries, or IFPI, said in a statement Thursday. "By confirming that Yahoo China's service violates copyright under new Chinese laws, the Beijing court has effectively set the standard for Internet companies throughout the country." Yahoo owns a 44 percent stake in Yahoo China, and the controlling stake is owned by Chinese Internet company Al Read more:piracy
PSP Handheld console turns into Sony's original PlayStation 2007-12-23 04:59:00 An update to the PlayStation
Portable (PSP) allows gamers to play PSOne titles purchased at Sony
's online store. Firmware update 3.80 allows the PSP to stream games from PSOne discs played on a PlayStation 3 using the Remote Play function. Both machines need to have access to a Wi-Fi network for the process to work. Players will have to reassign some of the buttons on the handheld games console, as it does not have as many as the Sony PSOne controller. The PlayStation 3 also received its latest firmware update, taking it up to version 2.10. PS3 owners can now play DiVx and WMV files, as well as Blu-ray 1.1 discs. An added Voice Changer feature also lets players modulate the tone of their voice using five preset levels. Sales of Sony's PSP more than doubled last week in Japan, accord Read more:turns
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Online sales up 19 per cent to $25bn at Christmas bonanza 2007-12-23 04:54:00 Nearly $25bn was spent online in the US between 1 November and 18 December, a 19 per cent
gain over the same period last year, according to the latest market data. Research firm comScore said that the figure surpassed the total online spending for the entire 2006 holiday season. Online sales on 17 December jumped 33 per cent to $700m, and 18 December saw a jump of 25 per cent to $670m. "Monday and Tuesday of this final week of pre-Christmas
shopping saw strong growth in spending versus a year ago, pushing the season-to-date growth rate slightly above 19 per cent," said Gian Fulgoni, chairman of comScore. "While it is now safe to say that the heaviest online spending days of the season are behind us, we believe we may continue to see strong growth rates during the remainder of the seaso Read more:bonanza
Install Ubuntu 7.10 on PS3 2007-12-18 08:18:00 Today, you will learn how to install Ubuntu
Gutsy (as a second operating system) on your PlayStation 3 gaming console. For those of you who think for a second (and who are scared) that this will replace their PS3 operating system, well you guys are wrong, because this will NOT erase your PlayStation 3 native operating system (called XMB) and it will run as an alternative OS on your PS3 console. Ready? Are you excited? Let's go!Things needed:1. An USB flash drive or a Memory Card (PS3 can read only SD/miniSD Memory Card, Memory Stick PRO (Duo) and CompactFlash). Or, as an alternative, you can use a portable hard disk with FAT32 filesystem on it.2. An USB keyboard and mouse attached to your PS3.3. Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) PS3 ISO image, which you can always download from Softpedia. You wil
Top Free Registry Repair Tools 2007-12-18 08:09:00 The unfortunate thing about computers is that no matter how much you use them there will always come a point in time when they will become erroneous which will require immediate repair. It would be great if your pc would always run as if it were new but this is not the case as most people are constantly using their computers and changing software which causes these problems.If you use your computer for work or play you will know that there is nothing worse than having a slow and dysfunctional pc. So how exactly do these problems arise and what can be done to fix them?The windows registry is responsible for most of the common error symptoms you may experience. Typical symptoms of registry problems include unused and obselete start menu items, deleted application files, missing shortcuts and Read more:Top Free
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Free To Air TV Software - What Can You Really Expect From Free To Air TV Software? 2007-12-18 08:07:00 Although this service has been around for a while now, many people still don't realize that you can get satellite TV channels feed directly to your computer if you have the appropriate satellite receiver or the right kind of software.FTA, also known as free to air TV, is a term that describes television channels and radio stations that regularly broadcast their programs unencrypted. These programs can be picked up by a suitable receiver or software program without the monthly charge like traditional cable or satellite TV. You never have to pay for free to air TV.Many international channels utilize this type of broadcasting, so you can tune in to channels from around the world at absolutely no charge. Any channels in your own country that use this type of broadcasting will also be available Read more:Expect
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Top 10 PC Problems And Fixes 2007-12-18 07:59:00 This article is for those of you who do not want to pay a fortune trying to fix your computer at a repair shop or some other place that will charge you an arm and a leg for something you can diagnose/fix yourself! Over the years of working with computers I have noticed many common problems that people seem to confront me with. I decided to put the top 10 questions I have been asked here, so that you may learn something from them and save yourself some money! First, I would like to say a couple of things: 1. Computers consist of parts (hardware) and instructions (software), you need both to operate, and each and every one part/instruction can be replaced. 2. When you are looking for the cause of your problem ALWAYS start at the physical part of the problem.1. I have spyware on my computer!
Put That Old Computer To Good Use 2007-12-18 07:56:00 An old computer these days is no longer a completely useless system. In fact, even though I might upgrade my main computer every couple of years, I usually take ten to fifteen years before I completely remove it from my home network and send it to that great LAN in the sky!Here are ten twelve uses that I have discovered for that more "experienced" computer system!And once you have read through the article and decided which exciting project you want to do, make sure you let us know by voting in the poll!Firewall/RouterThis was the very first use I had for an older computer. I grabbed an old 286, installed a couple of network cards, and the latest version of FREESCO and suddenly every computer in my house had Internet access without having to keep my main system running or without having to Read more:Computer
A Simple 4 Step Approach To Have Google Crawl Your Site Today Guaranteed! 2007-12-18 07:38:00 To take advantage of this amazing service from google just follow these 4 simple steps.Step 1 Get a Google
Site Map AccountIn order to create a Google Sitemap account just cut and paste the below URL in your browser and follow the simple directions 2 Create Your Site map You can create your Sitemap either as an XML file or a TXT file. XML is the PPreferred method since you can give Google more information about your Web Site. You do not need to know XML to create a Google Sitemap. Not with this free web based tool. Simply go to the below web site type in your domain and it will automatically spider your site and create a Google Site Map for you. You prefer to use a text file simply following the below direction taken directly from the Google Help File ()Google accepts simple text files th Read more:Today
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Facebook Faces Off Against Sex Site 2007-12-18 07:31:00 Facebook
last week amended a lawsuit it filed in June against 10 unknown individuals and 10 unknown companies for unlawfully accessing its servers. Based on information subpoenaed from Look Communications and Rogers Communications, two Canadian ISPS, Facebook on December 12 amended its complaint to name three individuals and three companies among the defendants. The social networking site's legal filing names Brian Fabian, Josh Raskin, and Ming Wu, as well as 1564476 Ontario Limited, Istra Holdings Inc., and SlickCash as defendants. Several remaining defendants have yet to be identified. Slickcash is a sex site that's associated with 1564476 Ontario Limited and Istra Holdings. "Slickcash.com is a top 1,000 site that reaches over 2.7 million U.S. monthly uniques," says Internet metri
Microsoft Releases CRM 4.0, Code-Named 'Titan' 2007-12-18 07:25:00 Earlier this year, Microsoft
promised to deliver the new version of its CRM software, CRM 4.0, then code-named Titan, by the end of the year. Now, the company's owned up to its promise.Last Friday, Microsoft released CRM 4.0 to manufacturing. This week, the new software will be available for customers and hosting partners to download online.Microsoft points to CRM 4.0's multitenant architecture as one of the main new features for Microsoft CRM. That gives both Microsoft and its hosting partners the ability to host CRM in much higher volumes, setting the stage for a showdown with the likes of Salesforce.com.Despite CRM 4.0's release, the Microsoft-delivered software-as-a-service version, known as CRM Live, won't be available for most customers until sometime in the second half of 2008. On o
Why Windows XP Help and Support doesn't work 2007-12-16 03:49:00 if your Windows
XP Help and Support
doesn't work, try to reinstall itTo reinstall Help and Support: Go to C:\Windows\inf\pchealth.inf. Right click and choose install. Have your CD handy.Note: The folder is hidden by default.
Hack this school network, win a router 2007-12-16 03:19:00 LaRocca is director of IT security with the School District of Palm Beach County in Florida, where he oversees a network
of 60,000 computers in 175 schools and which he says covers more acres than any other school district east of the Mississippi River. Computer security has traditionally been a low priority in the public school system, but that's not the case in Palm Beach County. That's because a computer breach stung the school system in a very public way two years ago when local papers reported that Jeff Yorston, a student at one of the county's schools, got hold of an administrative password and gave himself an "A" in a French class he never took. He also managed to boost the grades of a few friends. Yorston
Ask.com released its Top 10 list for Web search terms for 2007 2007-12-15 01:39:00 Ask.com released its Top 10 list for Web search terms for 2007 on Friday and it was noteworthy as much for what made the list as for what didn't. No. 1 is MySpace, followed in order by: Dictionary, Google, Themes, Area Codes, Cars, Weather, Games, Song Lyrics, and Movies. Yes, Google is in the third spot. Now, why would anyone go to Ask.com and type in "google"? Weird! info : news.com
Google Encouraging people to contribute knowledge 2007-12-15 01:34:00 The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google
has helped to make that information more easily accessible by providing pretty good search facilities. But not everything is written nor is everything well organized to make it easily discoverable. There are millions of people
who possess useful knowledge that they would love to share, and there are billions of people who can benefit from it. We believe that many do not share that knowledge today simply because it is not easy enough to do that. The challenge posed to us by Larry, Sergey and Eric was to find a way to help people share their knowledge. This is our main goal.Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling "knol", which stands for a unit of knowledge. Ou Read more:contribute
China Can't Spell G-O-O-G-L-E 2007-12-14 00:13:00 Google Inc., the owner of the world's most-popular Internet search engine, is struggling to become a verb in China
. ``G-O-O-G-L-E is not a normal Chinese spelling and people don't pronounce it right,'' Kai-fu Lee, Google's president for Greater China, said in a Nov. 30 interview in Beijing. ``Most people call us `go go.''' Mountain View, California-based Google, so well-known in most countries that the Oxford English Dictionary lists its name as a verb, has less than half of Baidu.com Inc.'s 61 percent market share in China. Lee, recruited from Microsoft Corp. in 2005 to expand Google in China, said he will try new advertising strategies to overcome the language barrier. He declined to provide more information. ``Very few peopl
Sony unveils hand-powered digital camera. 2007-12-13 23:55:00 Sony on Thursday unveiled a prototype digital camera shaped like a pizza cutter with a wheel that can be turned to generate enough power to take pictures. The "Twirl N' Take" camera generates enough electricity for one snap if the the wheel is moved for some 15 seconds, according to a Sony official. A digital camera similar to those used in mobile phones is installed in a handle attached to the wheel, which is equipped with a power-generating device, she said. Moving the wheel and taking pictures would appeal to children but the company has no immediate plan to commercialise it, she said. As the camera has no screen monitor, users must connect the device to a computer to see their pictures. The camera is the latest addition to Sony's "odo" line of hand-powered prototypes Read more:Sony unveils
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Opera Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft 2007-12-13 21:57:00 Opera Software has filed an antitrust suit against Microsoft
in the European Union, accusing it of stifling competition by tying its Internet Explorer Web browser to Windows, the Norwegian company said Thursday.The complaint, which was filed with the European Commission on Wednesday, says Microsoft is abusing its dominant position in the desktop PC market by offering only Internet Explorer as a standard part of Windows, and hindering interoperability by not following accepted standards with IE.Opera is asking the Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, to force Microsoft to unbundle IE from Windows, or include other browsers as a standard part of its operating system. It also wants it to require Microsoft to adhere to industry standards with its Web browser.The issue of sta
Google keeps what Ask.com erases 2007-12-13 20:55:00 ask.com launched its new AskEraser program to eliminate a users' IP addresses, user IDs, session ID cookies, and the complete text of search queries if users ask for it. In some cases, however, gone from an Ask.com server does not mean gone for good."We pass information to Google
, including the IP address and the search query, in order to get search results on the site," explained Doug Leeds, senior VP at Ask.Google uses that data to fight click fraud and to present contextually relevant ads. It may well use the information for other purposes, such as measuring the responsiveness of its systems. However, Leeds said he could not disclose the specifics of the contractual relationship between Ask and Google."The contractual relationship we have with Google constrains Google much more than its Read more:keeps
Toshiba Launches Portege M700 Tablet 2007-12-10 20:27:00 Toshiba's convertible tablet line began with the Portege M205, which generated plenty of hype for the tablet industry. It slowly evolved into the Portege M400, which boasted an optical drive and a standard voltage processor. Today, Toshiba is giving the line another facelift with the launch of the Portege M700. The new M700 incorporates a widescreen form factor and inherits a similar 12-inch LED screen to that found on the Toshiba Portege R500. With LEDs, the M700 will benefit from a thinner and more energy-efficient screen technology. In addition to a digitized screen, the M700 will also include touch capabilities, so you can use your fingers or the included digitizer pen to navigate. Some of the design elements are being brought from the Toshiba Portege R400 Series. It's a latch-less d Read more:Tablet
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