Networking
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Two External RAID Storage Solutions Reviewed
Friday 2 May 2008 – 02:30
iSCSI and SAS storage are flexible and powerful — but expensive. We looked at two direct attached storage solution kits from Accusys and AMCC/3Ware.read more
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Secure Remote Data Access for Home Users
Thursday 3 April 2008 – 03:50
Go out and about... while your data stays at home. We show you how to safely access your data over the Internet using a Virtual Private Network (VPN).read more
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iSCSI SANs Compared
Thursday 3 April 2008 – 03:40
Ethernet-attached Storage Area Networks are the smartest way of handling storage in small and medium-sized businesses. We compare iSCSI SANs from ... read more
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Co-World ShareDisk Gigabit Pro – High-Speed Data Delivery on your LAN
Tuesday 11 December 2007 – 05:20
The Co-World ShareDisk Gigabit Pro has nothing in common with the crawling speed of other NAS devices. It offers high performance and a selection ... read more
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An introduction to LAN file-sharing protocols
Monday 10 December 2007 – 08:00
File sharing is the foundation of most all inter-computer communication that concerns the average user. Tasks such as browsing the Internet have ... read more
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Are You Secure Online?
Thursday 25 October 2007 – 11:18
With some websites, including Gmail, playing fast and loose with security we provide a basic rundown of Internet security, and how it works.read more
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Linux Smartphones For A Completely Customised Experience
Monday 22 October 2007 – 02:32
Linux phones today are godsend for the enthusiast - get your hands dirty and you can get almost anything you want. All it takes is a little code ... read more
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Seven Online Storage Solutions Compared
Wednesday 17 October 2007 – 02:58
We put 7 online storage sites to the test to see how they compare.read more
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The Bad Effect Web 2.0 is Having on Internet Standards
Wednesday 17 October 2007 – 11:08
Web 2.0 - user generated HTML content - is leading to some very sloppy work out there. How badly is all this clogging up the internet ... read more
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Digital Living III: Video Streaming Clients
Wednesday 3 October 2007 – 09:57
In our last installment, we looked at NAS devices with integrated media servers. Today we’re focusing on the other end of that chain, namely ... read more
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Virtual Network Computing: An Introduction
Tuesday 2 October 2007 – 10:47
Virtual Network Computing, or VNC, is a program developed by AT&T to allow users to operate other computers from their own desktop. When it was ... read more
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Digital Living II: NAS-Storage Devices with Integrated Multimedia Servers
Monday 1 October 2007 – 09:24
Forget about your old DVD player in the living room – that’s yesterday’s news. In the age of broadband Internet, multimedia servers with support ... read more
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Digital Living I: Turning Your Home PC Into A uPNP Multimedia Streaming Server
Wednesday 26 September 2007 – 10:06
Turn your home PC into a video source for your digital living room. With the right software, virtually any system can be upgraded to a ... read more
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Windows in neat little packages
Thursday 20 September 2007 – 03:23
The package management system is a staple of Linux distributions everywhere, and controls ninety-five percent of software installed on a Linux ... read more
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FreeNAS: cheap-and-cheerful network storage
Friday 14 September 2007 – 05:28
Network attached storage, or NAS, devices are essentially external hard-drives connected to a network to allow many computers to share the same ... read more
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Technology Meets Porn
Friday 31 August 2007 – 11:09
It’s no longer a dirty little secret. In fact, it’s no secret at all: a lot of new technology we’ve come to rely on in the past 30 years has ... read more
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Multi-room Music on a Budget
Thursday 30 August 2007 – 09:30
You’ve got your MP3s and they sound great on your MP3 player when you’re out and on your PC when you’re at your desk. How about hearing them in ... read more
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IFA 2007 Show Preview
Wednesday 29 August 2007 – 03:31
MP3 specialist Archos will be showing a range of new players at the IFA 2007 – including the Archos 405 and the 605 WiFi model. This is the ... read more
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Zettabits: Online Storage Meets Local Storage
Tuesday 28 August 2007 – 02:39
More and more users and small businesses store their data on external storage devices or NAS boxes, because it’s more flexible when there isn’t ... read more
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Ditch Your Default IM Client
Wednesday 15 August 2007 – 12:39
I think it was around the time that Aaron managed to crash an XPS with the amount of instant messaging clients he was running that we decided ... read more
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Instant Messaging for Business
Friday 3 August 2007 – 03:15
Nothing has changed as thoroughly in the past few years as our attitudes and behaviour where communications are concerned. The influx of ... read more
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The Definitive Beginners Guide To BitTorrent
Friday 13 July 2007 – 01:13
BitTorrent is a Peer-to-Peer method of file exchange developed by the American programmer Bram Cohen. BitTorrent is still growing in popularity ... read more
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The Raid Migration Adventure
Tuesday 10 July 2007 – 03:53
All RAID arrays aren't created equal, and as a result you may not be able to keep using your existing configuration when you update your platform.read more