Computers Users Tips

My Recommendations On Removing Spyway And Malware

By: Lee Fowler

I am a PC engineer at the easyPC company who has serviced over 2000 clients PCs in the last year alone. My advice is comes from my personal experience and previous testing of many of the spyware removal programs out there.

First of all understanding the difference between Viruses & Spayware:

If you are currently running a very popular virus protection software like Norton or McAffee and believe that your software will do the ‘complete’ job then you are completely mistaken. We have run a complete virus check on a particular PC and have found nothing. After the scan has been complete we have immediately run a Spyware scan and have found hundreds of Spyware infections on the same PC. This confuses the majority of people due to the fact that both viruses and spyware seem to be the same.

Viruses…

Some viruses are programmed to damage the computer by damaging programs, deleting files, or reformatting the hard disk. Others are not designed to do any damage, but simply replicate themselves and perhaps make their presence known by presenting text, video, or audio messages. Even these benign viruses can create problems for the computer user. They typically take up computer memory used by legitimate programs. As a result, they often cause erratic behavior and can result in system crashes. In addition, many viruses are bug-ridden, and these bugs may lead to system crashes and data loss.

Spyware…

Spyware programs can collect various types of personal information, such as Internet surfing habit, sites that have visited, but can also interfere with user control of the computer in other ways, such as installing additional software, redirecting Web browser activity, accessing websites blindly that will cause more harmful viruses, or diverting advertising revenue to a third party. Spyware can even change computer settings, resulting in slow connection speeds, different home pages, and loss of Internet or other programs

From testing all the differnt software out there the following seem to be the most popular

- spyware doctor

- adaware pro

- counterspy

- spyware sweeper

But the best by far is Spybot search and destroy by safer-networking. First of all run this program with the internet turned off and after a fresh reboot. When you do run this for the first time, dont be alarmed at the amount of infections that it finds and that your virus protection has completely missed.

After scanning which usually takes 20-30mins, spybot ‘may’ ask you to reboot and rescan.

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The reason for this is because some of the spyware infections can not be removed at the time of that scan because they are currently running and need to be shut off to remove.

Once completed reboot again and you will find your PC will be running so much faster.

I hope this helps someone out there

Regards

Lee

You can visit us at the http://www.easyPC.co.uk

Great Links

http://www.download.com

http://www.safer-networking.org

http://www.theeasypc.co.uk/files Several free protection programs

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Operating Systems: File Systems

By: Sam Harnett

File systems are an integral part of any operating systems with the capacity for long term storage. There are two distinct parts of a file system, the mechanism for storing files and the directory structure into which they are organised. In mordern operating systems where it is possibe for several user to access the same files simultaneously it has also become necessary for such features as access control and different forms of file protection to be implemented.

A file is a collection of binary data. A file could represent a program, a document or in some cases part of the file system itself. In modern computing it is quite common for their to be several different storage devices attached to the same computer. A common data structure such as a file system allows the computer to access many different storage devices in the same way, for example, when you look at the contents of a hard drive or a cd you view it through the same interface even though they are completely different mediums with data mapped on them in completely different ways. Files can have very different data structures within them but can all be accessed by the same methods built into the file system. The arrangment of data within the file is then decided by the program creating it. The file systems also stores a number of attributes for the files within it.

All files have a name by which they can be accessed by the user. In most modern file systems the name consists of of three parts, its unique name, a period and an extension. For example the file ‘bob.jpg’ is uniquely identified by the first word ‘bob’, the extension jpg indicates that it is a jpeg image file. The file extension allows the operating system to decide what to do with the file if someone tries to open it. The operating system maintains a list of file extension associations. Should a user try to access ‘bob.jpg’ then it would most likely be opened in whatever the systems default image viewer is.

The system also stores the location of a file. In some file systems files can only be stored as one contigious block. This has simplifies storage and access to the file as the system then only needs to know where the file begins on the disk and how large it is. It does however lead to complications if the file is to be extended or removed as there may not be enough space available to fit the larger version of the file. Most modern file systems overcome this problem by using linked file allocation. This allows the file to be stored in any number of segments. The file system then has to store where every block of the file is and how large they are. This greatly simplifies file space allocation but is slower than contigious allocation as it is possible for the file to be spread out all over the disk. Modern oparating systems overome this flaw by providing a disk defragmenter. This is a utility that rearranges all the files on the disk so that thay are all in contigious blocks.

Information about the files protection is also integrated into the file system. Protection can range from the simple systems implemented in the FAT system of early windows where files could be marked as read-only or hidden to the more secure systems implemented in NTFS where the file system administrator can set up separate read and write access rights for different users or user groups. Although file protection adds a great deal of complexity and potential difficulties it is essential in an enviroment where many different computers or user can have access to the same drives via a network or time shared system such as raptor.

Some file systems also store data about which user created a file and at what time they created it. Although this is not essential to the running of the file system it is useful to the users of the system.

In order for a file system to function properly they need a number of defined operations for creating, opening and editing a file. Almost all file systems provide the same basic set of methods for manipulating files.

A file system must be able to create a file. To do this there must be enough space left on the drive to fit the file. There must also be no other file in the directory it is to be placed with the same name. Once the file is created the system will make a record of all the attributes noted above.

Once a file has been created we may need to edit it. This may be simply appending some data to the end of it or removing or replacing data already stored within it. When doing this the system keeps a write pointer marking where the next write oparation to the file should take place.

In order for a file to be useful it must of course be readable. To do this all you need to know the name and path of the file. From this the file system can ascertain where on the drive the file is stored. While reading a file the system keeps a read pointer. This stores which part of the drive is to be read next.

In some cases it is not possible to simply read all of the file into memory. File systems also allow you to reposition the read pointer within a file. To perform this operation the system needs to know how far into the file you want the read pointer to jump. An example of where this would be useful is a database system. When a query is made on the database it is obviously ineficient to read the whole file up to the point where the reuired data is, instead the application managing the database would determine where in the file the required bit of data is and jump to it. This operation is often known as a file seek.

File systems also allow you to delete files. To do this it needs to know the name and path of the file. To delete a file the systems simply removes its entry from the directory structure and adds all the space it previously occupied to the free space list (or whatever other free space management system it uses).

These are the most basic operations required by a file system to function properly. They are present in all modern computer file systems but the way they function may vary. For example, to perform the delete file operation in a modern file system like NTFS that has file protection built into it would be more complicated than the same operation in an older file system like FAT.

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Some file systems also allow multiple people to open the same file simultaneously and have to decide whether users have permission to write a file back to the disk if other users currently have it open. If two users have read and write permission to file should one be allowed to overwrite it while the other still has it open? Or if one user has read-write permission and another only has read permission on a file should the user with write permission be allowed to overwrite it if theres no chance of the other user also trying to do so?

Different file systems also support different access methods. The simplest method of accessing information in a file is sequential access. This is where the information in a file is accessed from the beginning one record at a time. To change the position in a file it can be rewound or forwarded a number of records or reset to the beginning of the file. This access method is based on file storage systems for tape drive but works as well on sequential access devices (like mordern DAT tape drives) as it does on random-access ones (like hard drives). Although this method is very simple in its operation and ideally suited for certain tasks such as playing media it is very inneficient for more complex tasks such as database management. A more modern approach that better facilitates reading tasks that arent likely to be sequential is direct access. direct access allows records to be read or written over in any order the application requires. This method of allowing any part of the file to be read in any order is better suited to modern hard drives as they too allow any part of the drive to be read in any order with little reduction in transfer rate. Direct access is better suited to to most applications than sequential access as it is designed around the most common storage medium in use today as opposed to one that isnt used very much anymore except for large offline back-ups. Given the way direct access works it is also possible to build other access methods on top of direct access such as sequential access or creating an index of all the records of the file speeding to speed up finding data in a file.

On top of storing and managing files on a drive the file system also maintains a system of directories in which the files are referenced. Modern hard drives store hundreds of gigabytes. The file system helps organise this data by dividing it up into directories. A directory can contain files or more directories. Like files there are several basic operation that a file system needs to a be able to perform on its directory structure to function properly.

It needs to be able to create a file. This is also covered by the overview of peration on a file but as well as creating the file it needs to be added to the directory structure.

When a file is deleted the space taken up by the file needs to be marked as free space. The file itself also needs to be removed from the directory structure.

Files may need to be renamed. This requires an alteration to the directory structure but the file itself remains un-changed.

List a directory. In order to use the disk properly the user will require to know whats in all the diretories stored on it. On top of this the user needs to be able to browse through the directories on the hard drive.

Since the first directory structures were designed they have gone through several large evolutions. Before directory structures were applied to file systems all files were stored on the same level. This is basically a system with one directory in which all the files are kept. The next advancement on this which would be considered the first directory structure is the two level directory. In this There is a singe list of directories which are all on the same level. The files are then stored in these directories. This allows different users and applications to store there files separately. After this came the first directory structures as we know them today, directory trees. Tree structure directories improves on two level directories by allowing directories as well as files to be stored in directories. All modern file systems use tree structore directories, but many have additional features such as security built on top of them.

Protection can be implemented in many ways. Some file systems allow you to have password protected directories. In this system. The file system wont allow you to access a directory before it is given a username and password for it. Others extend this system by given different users or groups access permissions. The operating system requires the user to log in before using the computer and then restrict their access to areas they dont have permission for. The system used by the computer science department for storage space and coursework submission on raptor is a good example of this. In a file system like NTFS all type of storage space, network access and use of device such as printers can be controlled in this way. Other types of access control can also be implemented outside of the file system. For example applications such as win zip allow you to password protect files.

There are many different file systems currently available to us on many different platforms and depending on the type of application and size of drive different situations suit different file system. If you were to design a file system for a tape backup system then a sequential access method would be better suited than a direct access method given the constraints of the hardware. Also if you had a small hard drive on a home computer then there would be no real advantage of using a more complex file system with features such as protection as it isn’t likely to be needed. If i were to design a file system for a 10 gigabyte drive i would use linked allocation over contigious to make the most efficient use the drive space and limit the time needed to maintain the drive. I would also design a direct access method over a sequential access one to make the most use of the strengths of the hardware. The directory structure would be tree based to allow better organisation of information on the drive and would allow for acyclic directories to make it easier for several users to work on the same project. It would also have a file protection system that allowed for different access rights for different groups of users and password protection on directories and individual files.Several file systems that already implement the features ive decribed above as ideal for a 10gig hard drive are currently available, these include NTFS for the Windows NT and XP operating systems and ext2 which is used in linux.

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8 Things People Need To Know About Gaming

By: Timothy Rudon

Video games are enjoyed by young and old. However the internet, magazines, and more are replete with untruths about gaming. The world is replete with things like ? gaming leads to violence; gaming ruins the eyesight; kids who get involved with video games become school drop outs or fall into bad company ,? and more.

As parents, teachers, and adults we need to separate truths from untruths and take decisions about video gaming based on research and proven facts. Here are a few points to consider:

1. Many are convinced that video and computer games spur violence in kids. The truth is that today 90 percent of the male population and 40 percent of the female population play video or computer games and according to federal crime statistics juvenile crime is quite low and not on the rise. Criminals are rarely created by gaming, more often than not it is a number of factors like broken homes, poverty, drug habits, and more.

2. A popular belief is that video gaming increases aggression among kids. Many studies are based on narrow field samples and does not represent a fair sampling. Media hype promotes the conclusion reached by studies that have poor methodology or analysis. Violence exists all around us in the news, in the movies, and more. The worst aggression is that exhibited by road rage. While violence in games exists it is not a primary factor that leads to aggressive behavior. Kids must be exposed to a holistic lifestyle and have good values ingrained in them at home and in school. Research has in no way established a direct link between gaming and violence although many involved in the school shootings were gamers.

3. Video and computer games are made for kids. While this may have been a fact a few years ago today gamers age from around 6-80+ years. Gaming is a passion with the young and old and advances in technology have created a following among adults too. Games are rated so that parents can make wise choices when purchasing games.

4. Games waste time and have no positive effects. This is an untruth and studies by child development and other experts have found that games heal, enhance eye-hand co-ordination, sharpen thinking power, teach kids to make quick decisions, and enhance creativity. Gaming according to several experts benefits children in many ways and even inculcates motivation and self confidence.

5. Video and computer games are exclusively for boys and men.

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Statistics show that today more women play web based games than men and there are many women involved in designing and producing games.

6. Games teach kids to kill. While the military does use games to train soldiers there is no logical conclusion that every kid who plays video or computer games will become a soldier. Soldiers have a different profile and it is the military training that makes them soldiers not just gaming. In fact James Gee in his book ? What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy? establishes the ?learning potential? of games; games inculcate problem solving abilities in gamers and teaches gamers to be team players.

7. Games are a waste of time is a wide belief. In fact experts prove that games can be positive if handled properly. Kids or adults must limit their gaming activities and indulge in other hobbies too. Games according to research allow gamers to role play and take important nation building decisions. Gamers can experience first hand what the decisions result in, this according to researches makes them consider the consequence of their actions before they make one not just I games but in real life too.

8. Video games make loners. Video and computer games are not isolating. In fact most gamers play in teams with people living all over the world. The internet has opened up many doors and gamers today learn from others, interact with many who are not even from their own culture or age. Gaming has no barriers and has created an open world.

Gaming is healthy if done right.

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How to watch TV on Mac

By: Jerry Bridgestone

Mac or Macintosh is a brand name for different kinds of computer produced by Apple, Inc. Production of Mac includes all aspects of hardware and own operating system already installed. The Mac is a computer that can run all the major operating systems, including Mac OS X, Windows XP, and Vista.

TV on a PC is in nowadays. How about TV on a Mac?

Widgets are mini-applications that are downloaded and installed to a dashboard for a new function. There are amazing widgets for Mac that will allow us to play TV right on our Mac. There is this viewmy.tv widget that provides access to free Internet television. Besides viewmy.tv, there is also the Ustream.tv for viewing our favorite live stream channels. Before we can download these features, we should first check the system requirements. If we have what are needed to make this application works, we can enjoy watching our favorite shows directly on our Mac.

As we all know, we can?t depend on our Internet connection all the time. Heavy traffic is frequently experienced so we can?t enjoy our favorite show that much. It?s different when we don?t need to download and consume time to have our full view of the channels. But we can have our Macs installed with TV. Aside from widgets, we can enjoy the entertainment of watching TV on our Mac with the help of USB-based tuners like Elgato EyeTV Hybrid that allows us to watch analog and digital TV. Like other common pc, Mac also has its way to have TV on it.

If external devices (USB like EyeTV) do not satisfy us, we can use the PCTV cards like Miglia AlchemyTV Card that is a good choice for computer TV viewing and VHS-to-DVD transferring. It?s a PCI card that requires no additional power supply. We can check miglia.com to check if we have the latest version.

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To access the newly installed program, we need to restart our Macs and go to the AlchemyTV dialog.

Miglia also offers a TV Micro unit that comes with the unit itself, a cable as connection, an external USB 2.0 extender, a remote control and an Elgato EyeTV 2.

Slingbox is also a good choice. It works not only for common PC but for Macs as well. It has ports for TV input and for Ethernet. Another one is the iTele, which is a Mac application that allows us to watch TV and record a channel we want.

When we are familiar of iTunes, we?ll know Mac. We can go to the iTunes Store to browse different shows and channels. We can have our favorite shows in advance. We can watch an episode before it will be aired or have a copy of the one we missed. We can watch all of this in Mac.These are only some of the ways on how we can have TV on our Macs. More are coming our way, thanks to the advanced technology.

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Internet And Business Online Â? The Act Of Interdependence

By: Scott Lindsay

The best role of business online is that of interdependency. We?ve all heard the old saying, ?No man is an island.? When it comes to online business this is especially true.

If a business owner who takes their business into the online world determines they will be self reliant and never accept the help of anyone then that individual will not be in business long enough to change their minds.

It is accepted fact that the greatest tool for long-term exposure to your website is through Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Without it potential customers can?t find you. It is unreasonable to expect that you can adequately develop a website without optimizing your website for the best possible search engine ranking.

Search engines also place a high value on sites that have links placed on existing sites. These ?backlinks? demonstrate to search engines that others trust your site. By placing your link on their website these other businesses indicate a trust and recommendation for your site.

In effect the two strategies listed above rely exclusively on what others can do for you when it comes to your online business.

Shirley Temple once proclaimed in her movie Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, ?I?m very self-reliant.? American westerns are filled with lines dealing with pulling yourself up by your bootstraps and holding down the fort. Many of us have grown up to believe if we want something done right we have to do it ourselves.

This thinking is in opposition to the rules associated with an online business.

The online world can only exist because people share. Individuals share technology, but the also share links, reviews, blogs, forums and a wide range of other marketing strategies that find a commingling of interdependency.

In online business you are as dependent on others as they may be on you. Unlike the word ?dependent?, the term interdependent indicates a mutual dependency.

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Have you really taken a proactive approach to networking? It?s possible you are reading this today and you?ve never considered asking someone else to place a link to your site on his or her online business site.

It can feel awkward depending on others to achieve online success especially if you?ve been lead to believe reliance on others is also a sign of imposing on their otherwise brilliant generosity.

I suppose it could be a deep-seated sense of pride that makes it hard to consider the need to ask others for help. However, the truth is depending on others is really what has made the Internet possible. The growth of this online world is comprised of a link of computers, networks and servers that are connected in a way that provides the maximum benefit for all.

Building an online business can feel a bit like trying to build a house of cards. Without the ability to rely on the other ?cards? around you it is virtually impossible to build.

Interdependence. This is the essence of online business.

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Philosophy Of Successful Time Management Or How To Start Working With LeaderTask?

By: Ivan Abramovsky

Introduction. LeaderTask what is it?

Before you start using the LeaderTask organizer, you should learn about its features, i.e. find out what it can do and what it cannot do. First of all, LeaderTask is a personal organizer for everyday activities whose main features are:

* Task Scheduler (http://www.leadertask.com/content/view/49/53/)

* Calendar

* Personal Information Manager

* Contact Manager

* Project Manager

The organizer has a portable version, i.e. it is completely autonomous = mobile. LeaderTask depends neither on the computer, nor on Windows registry, it can easily exist on your flash drive and travel with you!

Getting started.

Important issues you should know about:

First - LeaderTask is a unique organizer. It is not an advertising slogan, it is a new concept for managing tasks, projects, time and human activities. You can see it for yourself. So what is unique about it? It is the following things: tasks have a set of parameters (tags) you can use to quickly get answers to your questions. For example, you can get the following to-do lists in one mouse click: “My today tasks”, “IMPORTANT”, “URGENT”, “Monthly Sales”, “Project XYZ in September”, “Monitoring delegated tasks”, “Bank”, “To buy”, “To read”, “Meeting issues”, “Overdue tasks”, “Year goals”…

Second - LeaderTask is very flexible. Anyone can customize LeaderTask and implement his own usual methodology for managing his activities. It is also possible to successfully use David Allen’s GTD (Getting Things Done) system in LeaderTask.

Third - it is possible to associate tasks in LeaderTask with any context you find suitable. Any thing can be used as context - place (home, office, bank, store…), contact (boss, subordinate, spouse…), category, project… Speaking the language of time management, any task can be associated with its kairos (context), i.e. the circumstances that suit the task best. For example, if you need to do it in a bank, it is better to add it to the “Bank” section, if another person should do some task in a project, it should be added to the corresponding project and assigned to this person, if a task is important, you should give it the corresponding priority, etc.

Entering initial data.

To start using LeaderTask, you should enter some minimum initial data without which it will be difficult to understand how LeaderTask works. For your convenience, you can use the predefined initial data you are offered in the Quick Start wizard when you start the program for the first time.

Contacts. Add your contact groups and the contacts you need. Make sure you add information about yourself - the very first contact (set the Favorite property)

Categories. Define the categories of your activities. To make planning convenient, create types of your professional activities, hobbies and also places you visit most often in the Categories section. Sample categories: “Calls”, “Meetings”, “Reading”, “Watching”, “Buying”, “Thinking”, “Family”, “Rest”, “Health”, “Office”,”Bank”, “Store”. Set the Favorite property for the main categories.

Projects. Define the projects you work on. Do not mix up categories with projects and tasks. Remember that a project is what you can do. A project has time limits, and its aim is to produce something unique. It is convenient to divide projects into meaningful groups. Set the Favorite property for the main projects.

Calendar. Use the calendar to define periods of time that are most suitable for planning your time. For example: Today, Tomorrow, Current Week, Month, Year, 1st quarter 2007, 2nd quarter 2007… Also, set the Favorite property for the main periods.

The Favorite property makes the item to be shown in the drop-down menu on the Filter bar.

How it works.

The main areas in LeaderTask - Navigator, Filter bar and Task pane. The task pane (displayed as a calendar here) shows only those tasks that meet the filtering criteria. I.e. if you select “Project -YZ” in the filter, all tasks related to project XYZ will be displayed. You can filter tasks by projects, contacts, categories, date. There can be several filtering parameters at a time, but there can be none at all, i.e. no filtering (all tasks present in the LeaderTask database will shown in this case). For your convenience, you can save a set of filtering parameters as a ready-made filter. You can make such a filter favorite and enable it from the quick menu.

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When you select a filter, tasks with the necessary parameters are shown. For example, when you select the “Mine for today” filter, your tasks for the current day will be shown. The “Site activities in November” filter will show tasks related to the “Site” project for “November”. The filter “Monitoring delegated tasks” will show all tasks related to other people (contacts) you delegated tasks to. Filters in Leadertask actually make its use much easier. You can use them to instantly get answers to the following questions: “What is the most important thing at the moment?”, “Where am I supposed to be tomorrow?”, “What has been done since 15-21 in the -YZ project”, “What tasks are the most urgent ones?”

Tasks can be displayed both in the calendar grid (fir. 1) and in the task tree (fig. 2).

Filtering work in the same way both for the calendar and for the task tree. In different situations it can be convenient to view sets of tasks both in the calendar (visually arranged in time) and in the task tree (you can see their order and how tasks are split into smaller ones).

Adding tasks.

Adding tasks is designed in such a way that it is as easy and quick to add tasks as possible. You can do it quickly due to hotkeys and minimizing manual input. When you add a task, its parameters are specified automatically - project, contact, date, category. This data is copied from the filter. I.e. if “Project XYZ” is selected together with the “URGENT” category and you add a new task, it will be added to “Project XYZ” and it will be urgent. Another important issue: this task will also be visible when only “Project XYZ” or only “URGENT” is selected. How to add tasks. You can always open Leadertask using the Alt+Ctrl+A key combination no matter what application you are working with at the moment. For example: you are tying some text in the editor and suddenly remember about an important thing that should be added at once. What you should do: press Alt+Ctrl+A, press Insert, type the text of the task, press Enter, press Alt+Ctrl+A again and that is all, the task has been adde!

d. And note that everything is done without using the mouse. Another way with the help of the mouse: right-click the LeaderTask icon and select the necessary filter, then press Insert and do what you did in the first case.

Task priority.

Priority allows you to highlight the importance of each task and each priority can have its own representation.

Priorities make up a strict sequence, i.e. the order where each priority is higher or lower than another. Every user can define his own set of priorities, their order and how they are displayed. The standard classic set is:

* High (red font)

* Regular (block font)

* Low (gray font)

Summary.

Time management in LeaderTask is arranged somewhat differently than, for example, in Outlook. That is why when those who use old organizers start using it, they have a lot of how-to questions. In order to master the new methodology of LeaderTask, you should at least read this guide. It will be much easier for those users who have never used software for organizing their activities before.

After you understand the philosophy of LeaderTask, it will be very easy and pleasant to work with it - a lot of feedback from users proves it.

Along with the above basic features, Leadertask has other features as well: storing any information (text, images, files), arranging bookmarks, task reminders, storing passwords.

A modern person needs a smart tool for time management. This tool must not burden, but help and save the person’s time and effort. LeaderTask is exactly this kind of tool. Try it and see it for yourself!

WebSite:

http://www.leadertask.com/

Download LeaderTask

http://www.leadertask.com/download/leader.exe

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Teleseminar How-to Guide: The T-Profit System. A Review

By: Elisabeth Kuhn

Teleseminars seem to be all the rage these days, and for good reason. They’re a great way to build lists and make money, both for the organizers and their guests. They’re also really great for creating a connection between audience and expert, a connection that has two-way benefits.

If you’ve been wondering how you could possibly get in on the action, wonder no more: Filmmaker Andy Duncan (of “I Need Cash Now” fame) and his business partner Steve Roye have put together the T-Profit System, the ultimate step-by-step how-to guide for putting together a teleseminar series that delivers the goods, for the audience, your JV-partners, and yourself.

You may have thought you could never do that. You may not think of yourself as an expert. You don’t think you’re very witty. Heck, you may be shy! But Andy and Steve will quickly reassure you that neither exceptional wit nor fame or even expertise is required. Even better, teleseminar are among the easiest and most inexpensive products to produce. What’s not to like?

The T-Profit system consists of a total of eight MP3s, along with PDF transcripts, plus live Q&A sessions.

First, there are the four instructional MP3s, in which Andy and Steve present the basic formula. They give some background and how they themselves got started. They talk about the reason why teleseminars work as well as they do. And then they launch into the details of exactly how you can go about putting together your own.

BTW, “instructional” may not be quite the right word for those MP3s. Yes, you’ll learn a ton - as promised. But they are so much fun you sure won’t feel like you’re studying terribly hard.

Just in case you’re still intimidated, they provide you with three examples of teleseminars with experts who themselves were new to the teleseminar genre. For two of them, that very teleseminar you’ll be hearing was their very first. And yet, they sound like old pros!

As mentioned above, the MP3s also come with transcripts, and many of them have outlines as well. A bonus seminar, produced as a bonus for one of the example seminars, is included as well. It’s a terrific introduction to affiliate marketing by Erik Stafford, also known as the Faster Webmaster.

Here’s yet another thing that makes T-Profit System special: included in the price are three bonus coaching calls in monthly intervals (actually, there was a fourth one that took place right after the system was launched, for all the early bird sign-ups), where Steve and Andy will answer any questions that come up.

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Andy and Steve are incredibly gracious and helpful. I’ve asked a few really basic questions, and Steve walked me patiently through all of my challenges. He did the same for other callers. They didn’t even laugh!

I bought T-Profit System the minute it came out. Why? I loved Andy’s “I Need Cash Now” program, and also did Andy and Steve’s 4 week coaching program. I got so much out of the two programs, I felt the T-Profit system was a complete no-brainer.

And that even though I believed that I already knew enough about teleseminars from the coaching program (and I did know a lot!), this program actually delivered even more details and step-by-step guidelines, thereby greatly reducing the intimidation factor, and greatly increasing the potential for success. I also find that I learn best when I get the same info presented several different ways.

Considering that I was a total web newbie about 6 months ago, I keep finding myself absolutely astonished by how far I’ve come. I have multiple websites, blogs, I’ve already come up with a concept for a series of teleseminars, and I have even done (and uploaded!) my first interview. Look for more on all that in the near future. For right now though, you may want to check out the T-Profit System, so you’ll get in on the live coaching calls while they last.

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Save Our Planet, Use Internet Fax

By: Phil Anderson

Do you know more than 17 million trees are cut down yearly just for the usage of faxing papers in United States? Ever thought of cutting down your paper usage, especially in office? Now here’s a simple way to do so: Switch from conventional fax machine to Internet faxing machine. Yes, and I mean cut down all conventional fax machine usage!

What is Internet faxing?

In general, Internet faxing is known as a web service that allows users to send out and receive faxes in email forms. Faxes are transmitted via Internet and no fax machine is needed during the process. The very first Internet fax services are started since mid 1997 by PSI Net. Back then, Internet faxing was better known as InternetPaper. The technology then revolved and developed into a multimillion industries where more than dozens of merchant popped up to provide similar services. Nowadays Internet services are available worldwide.

Can I really send fax over Internet?

The answer is yes! In fact there are more than couple ways to send and receive faxes via Internet.

When you are shopping Internet faxing services, your choices are wide. Some service allows you to fax for free; while some require monthly subscription fees. Some Internet faxing services require you to install special software on your computer; while some allows you to send fax directly on the web. The right thing to do is to review and select the one that suits your needs.

What are the benefits of Internet faxing?

When compare to conventional fax machine, Internet faxing is so much easier and more affordable.

Firstly, there’s no need to waste money on an extra fax line. Also, no extra cost for fax machine, fax paper, as well as printing ink. All Internet faxes come in as email attachments ? softcopies are easier for circulation as well as file organization. More over, do you know according to research, 17 million trees (as said) are chopped down annually just for the faxing paper in United States? Sending virtual faxes save more than just your money, the technology save more trees as well!

If you use a conventional fax machine, you should know that using those old fax machines can be very tiring. The frustrations cause by paper jam, extra phone line cost, cuts off page text, and fax transmission failure are always bothering the users. Isn?t terrible? You bet! On the other hand, while comes in cheaper operation cost, Internet fax provides an easy faxing method where the service is 24 hours ready, no more engage tones, and no more paper jamming.

With Internet faxing services, you can send faxes as long as you have an active Internet faxing account and a computer connected to the Internet. The flexibility and mobility of Internet faxing is a valuable feature for frequent business travelers. Just imagine finishing all your faxing works while waiting for boarding in the airport ? you wouldn?t have this done if you are still using the old fax machine, right?

Using Internet faxing services

For commercial usage, setting up an Internet faxing needs nothing more than just an email account (well okay, you do need a computer with Internet connection). Most Internet faxing service providers offer immediate activation ? this means you can start receiving and sending faxes right after you register for the services.

Once activated, you can construct your outgoing faxes like how you compose your email with Yahoo Mail or Hotmail.

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Say we are sending fax to 1234567890: the recipients will be 1234567890@myfax.com for MyFax; while for eFax, it will be 1234567890@efax.com. Email subject line will be converted to fax header, while email content will be the fax content.

Before you ask, yes, Internet fax service is very much similar to sending and receiving the email. In fact some services allow you to setup your virtual faxing service on popular mail agent like Outlook. For most Internet faxing services, a user friendly GUI (a toolbar or something similar) will be installed in your system during setup. Upon receiving the email to the Internet fax service providers the automated programs convert the email messages to the fax format and send the fax to the recipient fax number. On the other hand, the recipient receives the fax on their fax machine normally.

Shopping for the right Internet faxing services

Now in case you are looking for a suitable virtual fax service provider, here are some names you should know: eFax, Fax Away, MyFax, Ring Central, CallWave Virtual Fax, Max Email, Zip Fax, Fax (UK), Fax Mate, Inter Fax, and so on.

Although these services are offered based on the same technology, their service and pricing could be quite different from each other. Some of these services work perfectly well for heavy fax users, while some are more to small business owners where faxing needs are minor. At the time of writing, standard Internet faxing priced $10 - $20 monthly depends on the number of faxes you can receive and send monthly. Also, shoppers should be aware that not all service providers offer their service world wide. Thus, you need to be very sure that the merchant service is available in your country before purchasing.

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Statistical Process Control (SPC) Software: The Past, Present and Future

By: DataNet Quality Systems

Remember the first time in school you used a calculator instead of paper and pencil to add, subtract, multiply or divide? It made the job so easy, it almost felt like cheating. The technology freed you to focus on the problem rather than the mechanics of arithmetic.

Statistical process control (SPC) methods have been applied in manufacturing process control since the early 1930s. Over the decades, countless hours were expended plotting charts with pencils on graph paper. Then computers arrived and, like the calculator did for the schoolboy, freed the engineer to spend time analyzing the process instead of focusing on the formulae.

Over the years SPC software has matured in functionality, making statistical analysis quicker, more powerful and more flexible. The driving force has made the software easier for the practitioner to use. SPC software will continue to develop in ways that eliminate unnecessary steps, freeing quality practitioners from rote tasks and enabling them to focus efforts on improving the manufacturing process.

The Past

SPC software can show real-time control status of all data collection stations plant wide. As access to computers in the manufacturing environment grew, along came the first wave of products that automated the tasks associated with statistical analysis. Although they provided the tools for engineers to analyze the manufacturing process, these systems were difficult for many practitioners to use. They required tedious data entry and a Ph.D. statistician’s knowledge to configure the software and analyze the data–a combination of tasks and abilities not easily married. Furthermore, obtaining interpretable results was a process completed long after the production run being analyzed had finished. This delay complicated the task of addressing process problems that continued to change–and probably resulted in additional process variation–in the interim.

The Present

Many timesaving features have since been added to advance SPC software usability. These software systems leverage other technologies such as automation standards and Internet access to simplify and integrate tasks–making administration, data collection, statistical analysis and reporting easier for today’s practitioners.

Administration

Today’s SPC software is designed to make the setup of parts and processes easy to accomplish. Common graphical user interface features such as tree views with drag-and-drop functionality dominate the market. These features reduce the repetitive tasks of separately creating items with only minor differences and instead allow for copying and duplicating similar components and then assigning unique parameters.

The introduction of communication standards across various platforms takes this ease-of-administration approach even further. Now SPC software can be configured to automatically obtain and update parts, processes, specifications, nominals and other pertinent information from values stored in other enterprise software systems such as manufacturing resource planning, manufacturing execution systems and human machine interface. Not only does this eliminate the effort spent re-entering and updating configuration information in multiple packages, it saves the effort expended tracking down entry errors that occur when the process is done manually.

Data Collection

Today’s SPC software can automatically collect data from other enterprise software systems. As with the time-saving benefit for administrative tasks, this capability reduces the need to configure and maintain separate data collection interfaces and eliminates re-entry errors.

Current SPC software also has used communication standards to simplify the time-consuming job of connecting the system to data collection devices. Advances in software masking functionality permit out-of-the-box connection to a wide range of digital devices. And with dynamic masking capabilities, SPC software can automatically react to changes in device output and adjust to collect the specified data. This flexibility frees the practitioner from the tedious chore of administering SPC software every time there is a change to a device’s output.

Real-Time SPC Analysis

Today’s SPC software products are designed to collect data, produce charts and alarm in real time. This enables shop-floor operators to receive statistical feedback as close as possible to the point of production. Alarming capabilities include notification of supervisors, managers and other personnel responsible for maintaining and improving the production process. Immediate feedback and alarming enable all parties to begin problem solving and root causes analysis immediately. Eliminating the delay between a special cause and detection can reduce the investigation and corrective action effort by empowering quality practitioners with useful production feedback at the moment of a problem’s inception.

Current development in SPC software includes the ability to provide supervisors with dashboard-style status indicators of all collection operations in the plant. Snapshot views of production status on a single screen allow busy supervisors to manage by exception instead of manage by walking around.

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Reporting

One of the most time-consuming tasks in applying statistical methods to a manufacturing process is developing relevant and understandable reports to form the basis for decision making. Modern SPC software makes the job easier by providing built-in report templates that can organize and deliver reports focused on the key characteristics of a process. Moreover, reports that are needed on a regular basis can be scheduled and automatically generated based on then-current production information. This is a time saver for those responsible for communication among quality team members.

Finally, the effort previously expended producing and distributing charts to various users and locations is reduced by leveraging the Internet. A Web-based SPC report with hyperlinks to various types of analyses can easily be distributed to multiple persons, teams or facilities.

The Future

Future SPC software development will follow the trend to eliminate cumbersome, low-value tasks and generally make SPC systems easier to administer and use. Describing the particular form such future development will take is speculative, but the combined capabilities of intelligent and expert systems is one possible way SPC software could evolve to address new challenges.

Intelligent systems emulate the human ability to learn from past experience and to make reasoned decisions and take action based on those experiences. Expert systems rely on a knowledge base to build models to diagnose, advise and act on real-world problems. Intelligent and expert systems are already deployed in control technology for manufacturing processes. It is not a great leap to believe that these technologies will profoundly change the nature of SPC software.

There are many ways in which intelligent and expert SPC systems would enhance the effectiveness and simplify the work of quality practitioners. On the most superficial level, these systems would learn from previous SPC configuration to logically reorder the system to make future administration easier. For instance, such systems could recognize which devices are being deployed and suggest effective collection methods and preferred connection approaches based on past experience.

But the administrative assistance offered by intelligent and expert SPC systems would run much deeper than that. Such systems could save countless hours helping determine how to monitor the process. Building on the history of previous production successes and failures, SPC software could select key parameters to track when to set up new parts or processes, and determine the most effective way to chart and report on those parameters. The software itself could anticipate problems and alter monitoring methodologies to adapt to changes in the manufacturing process.

The impact of intelligent and expert systems would perhaps be greatest when it comes to interpreting process statistics and acting on that analysis. There is not enough time in the day for the quality practitioner to thoroughly analyze the mountain of information generated from each production run. SPC software with learning and knowledge-based capabilities, coupled with computational power, will provide insights into the process beyond what the practitioner alone could achieve. With the advent of intelligent and expert SPC systems, the computer can transcend the earlier comparison made to a calculator. Such systems could not only assume or simplify menial tasks currently performed by the quality practitioner, but will also become a readily available and trusted source of expert guidance and advice.

Of course, the future developments suggested here may never come to pass. Nonetheless, it is almost a foregone conclusion that the SPC software of tomorrow will be more intelligent and capable of simplifying many jobs that burden today’s quality practitioner. The future of SPC software is what frees those practitioners from time-consuming, low-value tasks and enables them to more easily obtain the analytical results that inform business decisions.

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Internet Jobs And How You Can Find Them

By: Mark Farrar

Twenty years ago it was inconceivable that one day in the future people would be able to earn money using solely a computer with an Internet connection. Things have certainly changed since then. Technological breakthroughs have made this ‘crazy’ idea possible. Indeed, there have been a number of amazing and stunning advances in technology in recent years.

For most people, having a job entails working long days, over-time and work stresses etc. The daily routine of a working professional involves waking early, gobbling down breakfast, running to catch the bus or dashing to the closest taxi stand before arriving at work slightly late. Doesn’t it?

If you don’t think that there is any way out of this bind, then you haven’t closely examined the wide variety of positions available over the internet. A simple search for “online jobs” with any major search engine will result in thousands of hits, many of them for positions that you otherwise would not have known existed. The World Wide Web has something for virtually everybody.

You can find millions of internet based jobs on the market today, and some people tend to argue about the legitimacy of these jobs. But if you can filter out the real opportunities from the chaff, you can undoubtedly earn a considerable income from a respectable online job.

Legit online jobs (http://www.PerfectWealthFormula.co.uk/pwf_articles/53148-earn-money.php) are sometimes hard to find. Researching them thoroughly is your best bet.

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Do you like data entry, writing, web designing or translations? Becoming your own boss is rewarding, and just think of all the money you save on not having to commute

You can find resources and articles on the Internet which provide you with valuable insights into the nature of “Internet jobs (http://www.PerfectWealthFormula.co.uk/)” and thus make sure that you do not get cheated. There are many web sites which serve the purpose of providing details about online jobs. With the power of “Internet jobs”, making money (http://www.PerfectWealthFormula.co.

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Video Streaming Â? Who Needs Television?

By: Scott Lindsay

It was a satisfying feeling when I happened upon a website recently that told me that a band I have always enjoyed are back together after they disbanded a few years ago.

This group had been performing for 30 years to capacity crowds. Then came their farewell concert tour and everyone thought they would only hear about this group in the context of history and decade specific countdown shows.

Today two of the original members are touring on a limited basis. The overall feel of the band is a little different than the original band, but it is compelling enough to reconnect with the career of this new, yet classic, band.

How do I know this? Did I read about it?

No! This information came in the form of a fifteen-minute video stream with the two principle artists in the band. They spoke candidly about the reformation of the group and the new simplified sound and direction. They spoke of the emotional difficulties they experienced when the group went their separate ways and how a one time performance promised by the duo set the stage for a new album, tour and renewed life for this respected band. Stats counters indicated I wasn?t alone in my enthusiasm for this new career wrinkle.

Video streams react to an on-demand generation. You can visit the websites of news organizations and watch video streams of the news you want to see. In some cases this is viewed as an extension to television news coverage, but for some this is an on-demand replacement for television newscasts. Even newspapers are responding to the on demand world and placing supporting video streaming on their websites for those interested in a more personal take on the morning news.

Forbes.com and a host of other websites provide comprehensive news coverage through video streaming and their marketing strategy is to let it be known that this coverage is news on demand and online. These companies are not seeking terrestrial stations to send their video streams to, they are relying consistently on online video streams ? and their success continues to grow.

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Elaborate sets are designed (or created through the use of green screens). These online video streams bring the same newsmakers you might find on regular television into your home and on your time.

Many of these video streams are made possible through the sale of typical video advertising that precedes the actual video clip, which makes the end product free to the online user.

The growth of video streams is impacting national and international news, business forecasts, entertainment and music.

What may be the most surprising is those who may have wanted to share information via television in the past are now more than content to take their message directly to the people and allow them to watch at their convenience. Many are wondering why they would want to make video available any other way.

Many visual consumers are inclined to agree with the sentiment.

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Doing Christmas Shopping Online

By: James Brown

With the rising cost of gasoline, many Christmas shoppers are turning to the internet to find some of the items on their Christmas shopping list. With the aid of the internet search engines, it is possible for Christmas shoppers to pinpoint the location of hard-to-find items and have them shipped exactly where they need to go. Finding discounts from online retailers is an easy thing to do too and people love the convenience that internet shopping provides them.

Internet shopping for Christmas gifts can be fine-tuned to fit the needs of every family. To find clothing items in a specific age range, an internet shopper can find great sales and the latest styles in everything from jeans to party dresses that will be worn for Christmas dinner and church on Sunday by using the address line on their home computer to shop at a brand name store that they trust.

Through the internet, Christmas shoppers can find decorations for the home at a fair price and feel confident that they can return what does not fit to the retailer. Some people wonder how they can do this because they think the retailer is so far away. Online shoppers know all the rules about shopping online, especially after they have spent some time carefully reviewing the store’s return policies online at their website.

While Christmas shopping online is fun and convenient to do, there might still be some skeptics in the world that worry about the security of the websites and the personal information that they are asked to provide. The security features online have been strengthened to meet the needs of today’s smart shoppers, and the retailers have spent a lot of their own cash purchasing encryption software that ensures that all credit card and banking information is kept safe always.

Some Christmas shoppers choose to start shopping for Christmas early in the year. They know that there will be many holidays before Christmas and those holidays will bring great discounts to shoppers. With specific items in mind, they can access the internet and look for discount coupon codes that can be used to buy the items that they need, while still taking advantage of the major discounts offered because it is a holiday sales period.

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To budget conscious shoppers, the holiday shopping represents a chance to gain a foothold on holiday expenses and define what the payments will be on any credit cards that they make their holiday purchases with. By shopping for Christmas online, shoppers can keep track of all of their holiday spending and know first hand what to include on the budget for the New Year.

One other factor that makes shopping online so fantastic is that holiday shoppers can find great deals on a variety of items and be exposed to unique items that they might not have considered but realize are perfect for the special people in their lives. They can also save a lot of cash by shipping items directly to people that live out of town and save money on gasoline that they would have used by driving all over the town to get their Christmas shopping finished.

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Beware of this Domain Appraisal Scam

By: Brian Holland

I recently received several e mails from domain sellers who had fallen victim to a domain appraisal scam. The scam starts with a mail the seller receives concerning a domain they own and the scammer showing interest in buying it.

The scammers find information about their targets on Ebay and on Whois.

In the first mail they tell you that they are a new player wanting to invest money in the domain market as a side business and inquire how much you want for the domain.

Next step is the mail in which they accept your asking price for the domain. The scammers tell you that they want you to get the domain appraised as they don?t want to make a bad investment. The scammers want the appraisal from a certain manual appraisal website which they believe to be a good one, ofcourse this appraisal website is part of the scam. This appraisal website gives a highly inflated appraisal value and asks a high fee for it ( up to over a hundred dollars) as they know you need the appraisal to sell the domain.

The end of this story is that once you have mailed your appraisal you never hear from your buyers again. leaving you one hundred dollars poorer and an absolutely useless appraisal richer. This is a very cunningly operated scam and to show you how such a scam mail looks i give you a real example of such an email below.

Email 1:

Hello,

We ?ve found your domain name listed for sale..

If you are still interested in selling please send your quote and I will

consider it with my partners.

Main direction of our business is software development and technical

support.

Domain names is not our business but a new way to earn on reselling. We are

going to buy domains to resell them at higher prices since we have a large

database of clients interested in good domains.

Looking forward to do business with you.

Regards,

Email 2:

You want 13,500 USD. Ok.

Do you sell domain with a web site or just the name?

If it?s just the name it?s ok. A web site is not necessary.

Have you had your domains appraised already? Can you show me your valuation certificates? As far as I know it?s a common practice to show appraisal of domain name (even without traffic and web site) before doing business.

Without an appraisal I risk to overpay. In other words I won?t be able to make a profit on reselling this name.

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Of course, we must be sure that you are engaging an appraisal company with REAL manual service. I heard many appraisal companies often made inaccurate auto-generated appraisals. I will only accept appraisals from independent sources I trust. To avoid mistakes I asked domain experts about reputable appraisal companies in a forum. (they now give you a link of a forum you have to check out)

Just check this posting.

If the appraisal comes higher you can adjust your asking price accordingly. I also hope you can give me 10 discount of the appraised value.

After I get an appraisal from you we?ll continue our negotiations.

How do you prefer to get paid: Escrow.com, PayPal.com check or wire?

Hope we can come to an agreement fast.

Looking forward to your reply.

So if you ever get an email like this, you know what to do. Scrap it. Just remember this wise saying that if something sounds too good to be true it probably is.

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CCNA, CCENT, Network+, And Security+ Practice Questions: TCP, UDP, Smurf Attacks, And More!

By: Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933

Let?s test your knowledge of UDP, TCP, smurf attacks, EIGRP, and more with these questions designed to help you prepare for success on your CCENT, CCNA, CCNP, Network+, and Security+ certification exams!

CCENT Certification / Network+ Certification:

Which of the following protocols runs on both UDP and TCP?

A. DHCP

B. SNMP

C. DNS

D. ARP

E. Inverse ARP

Answer: C. DNS runs on port 53, both on TCP and UDP.

Security+ Certification:

Briefly define the term “smurf attack”. (Not too briefly, though!)

Answer: Basically, a smurf attack involves sends ICMP Echo packets (pings) with the intended victim’s IP address specified as the source of the Echo packets. This transmission takes the form of a directed broadcast, which means that quite a few hosts can receive it - and then respond with ICMP Echo Replies, which will all be sent to the intended victim.

CCNA Exam:

R1 and R3 are directly connected at their respective Serial1 interfaces via a DTE/DCE cable. What command will tell you whether the interface is connected to the DTE or DCE end of the cable?

Answer: Run show controller serial 1 on either router - the DTE / DCE information is near the top of the output.

CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:

DUAL has discovered four possible paths to a remote network, with the following metrics: PathA, 1500. PathB, 1500. PathC, 2600.

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What command will allow EIGRP to use the first three paths without using the fourth?

Answer: variance 2 would do the job. Any path with a metric of 3000 or lower will be utilized; setting it to 3 would bring PathD into the equation.

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:

What is the main purpose of IEEE 802.3ac?

Answer: The IEEE 802.3ac standard allows the maximum frame length to be extended to 1522 bytes, which means the dot1q 4-byte header doesn’t cause problems in transmission.

CCNP Certification / ONT Exam:

Which queueing strategy gives priority to interactive, low-bandwidth communications by default?

Answer: Weighted Fair Queueing (WFQ) gives priority to interactive, low-bandwidth conversations, and then splits the remaining bandwidth fairly among the remaining conversations.

Look for a new set of Cisco and CompTIA certification exam questions soon!

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How To Wipe Disk Drives, And Why

By: Sam Miller

Data security has become a bigger concern as the information age goes into full swing. Computers are becoming more and more commonplace as versatile tools for a wide variety of tasks and uses. This has made digital storage increasingly the data storage format of choice, since digital information is easily accessed and processed by computers.

This has led to a rise in interest in digital information and data storage systems. Apart from developments in hardware technology that allow bigger capacity devices with faster access times, security has also become a prime consideration. Most software and programs nowadays come equipped with varying levels of security options. For instance, it is now possible to protect almost any file with a password such that only those who can provide the correct password would be able to access the information within the file.

However, these software security measures would not stand up to dedicated data extraction efforts, in particular those involving the actual physical hardware. Physically securing the hard drive (or other data storage device) under consideration may not always be possible or practical. Another way of ensuring that important data is not placed at risk is to wipe the disk.

Simply deleting the contents of a hard disk is not enough to ensure that they are not recovered. In fact, there are software utilities that allow the recovery of deleted data. This possibility is because when a file is deleted, it is not actually overwritten or removed from the hard disk. Instead, a marker is just associated with the file to say that it has been deleted, and the space it occupies on the disk is marked available for use. This means that the data in the file remains on the disk for the knowledgeable hacker to extract and view.

Wiping a disk, on the other hand, is a much more thorough process. In a disk wipe, all data to be wiped off is actually overwritten with random data.

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(In theory, it would still be possible to reconstruct the data lost after a hard disk wipe, but this would require high-powered microscopes and would proceed much too slowly to be useful!)

Performing a disk wipe is facilitated by the many disk wipe programs available. There are many free options, as well as commercial software options, which may differ in terms of functionality and documentation. The majority of these are available online, which makes it quite easy to browse through and find the most appropriate program for the specific task. Some programs are designed for use on a single personal computer, while others may be designed for use on batches of computers.

Confidential data that needs to be kept from being exposed may best be hidden by using a disk wipe. This simple additional security measure makes the recovery of deleted data nearly impossible. With the many disk wipe programs available, it is easier than ever to perform a disk wipe, even for casual users, making this a real data security option.

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Video Streaming Â? Who Needs Television?

By: Scott Lindsay

It was a satisfying feeling when I happened upon a website recently that told me that a band I have always enjoyed are back together after they disbanded a few years ago.

This group had been performing for 30 years to capacity crowds. Then came their farewell concert tour and everyone thought they would only hear about this group in the context of history and decade specific countdown shows.

Today two of the original members are touring on a limited basis. The overall feel of the band is a little different than the original band, but it is compelling enough to reconnect with the career of this new, yet classic, band.

How do I know this? Did I read about it?

No! This information came in the form of a fifteen-minute video stream with the two principle artists in the band. They spoke candidly about the reformation of the group and the new simplified sound and direction. They spoke of the emotional difficulties they experienced when the group went their separate ways and how a one time performance promised by the duo set the stage for a new album, tour and renewed life for this respected band. Stats counters indicated I wasn?t alone in my enthusiasm for this new career wrinkle.

Video streams react to an on-demand generation. You can visit the websites of news organizations and watch video streams of the news you want to see. In some cases this is viewed as an extension to television news coverage, but for some this is an on-demand replacement for television newscasts. Even newspapers are responding to the on demand world and placing supporting video streaming on their websites for those interested in a more personal take on the morning news.

Forbes.com and a host of other websites provide comprehensive news coverage through video streaming and their marketing strategy is to let it be known that this coverage is news on demand and online. These companies are not seeking terrestrial stations to send their video streams to, they are relying consistently on online video streams ? and their success continues to grow.

Video Streaming Who Needs Television
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