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Sun Microsystems announced that it is shipping two new drives with its Sun StorEdge 3900 and 6900 storage systems, the 181 GB high density disk drive and the 36 GB 15,000 RPM high performance disk drive. According to the company, the new drives provide Sun customers double the storage capacity in the same footprint, giving […]

The latest server shipment stats from Gartner Dataquest show a server market that essentially remained flat for the second quarter of 2002. The latest worldwide server shipment stats from Gartner Dataquest show a server market that remained flat for the second quarter of 2002. Worldwide server shipments for this period totaled 1.08 million, an increase […]

by Marcin Policht Virtually every single person using any of the operating systems from the Windows family has to resort, at some point, to making configuration changes via direct registry access (instead of using the more “friendly” and Microsoft-recommended GUI-based tools). Typically, such changes are performed with considerable caution and a strict following of the […]

by Jason Zandri www.2000trainers.com Jason Zandri’s latest article in the Learning Windows XP Professional in 15 Minutes a Week series introduces the TCP/IP Protocol by providing a detailed overview of the default protocol in use for the Internet. Welcome to this week’s installment of Learn Windows XP Professional in 15 minutes a week, the 12th […]

When SilverStream 1.0 first appeared on the scene, many Webmasters and system administrators didn’t know what to make of it — who had really thought about serving applications from a separate server working apart from the Web server? But thanks to the success of SilverStream, application servers are becoming more prevalent in the enterprise — […]

Automatic Installation Options You need to determine which application will install when a user attempts to access a file. This is done by selecting the specific file extensions on the File Extensions tab of the Software Installation Properties page. Click to Enlarge The application that is the highest in the Application Precedence list box is […]

Maintaining Software Through Upgrades After software has been deployed throughout the enterprise, it will often need to be updated due to the release of a service pack, service update, a version upgrade, or any number of other reasons. Upgrades will usually involve some level of change to the base software install on the systems. You […]

Using the Local Users and Groups Snap-in Groups are used in Windows XP Professional (and other Microsoft operating systems) as collection points for user accounts to aid in simplifying system administration by allowing you to assign permissions and rights to the group of users rather than to each user account individually. Local groups are used […]

This article discusses nmap, a powerful network exploration tool and security scanner, which lets you “audit” your network before the bad guys do. nmap gives you the chance to ‘audit’ your network before the bad guys do. This article examines the powerful network exploration tool and security scanner. Complete Story

IBM rolled out new connectivity technology that it said would cut down on the on the tangles of chords tying together rack-mounted servers.The Armonk, N.Y., company announced the Advanced Connectivity Technology (ACT) would enable businesses to using Intel-based servers to use up to 90 percent less rack space by allowing them to link 256 server […]

by Marcin Policht Even though interest in automating administrative tasks via scripting grows steadily, it will still be a while before Windows Scripting Host, Active Directory Services Interface, or Windows Management Instrumentation become common items in administrative toolkits on par with standard Administrative Tools included in Windows 2000 or XP. Learning intricate object models used […]

As Sun and IBM try to win over the Wintel fray to the low-end Unix space, pricing to the Unix space, Unisys is going down a different path: delivering high-end-Unix-comparable functionality to the Wintel space. On Tuesday, Unisys introduced two new Itanium-2-based server lines. The ES7000 Aries series is poised to compete against low-end Unix […]