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By Brian Morrissey With WS-I board membership in sight, Sun Microsystems must decide if it can work with Microsoft to develop Web services’ standards. Although they continue to bicker over antitrust matters and Windows support for Java, a deal is in the works that could break finally the impasse between Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW) and Microsoft […]

Qmail is an Internet Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) written by Dan Bernstein for Unix, Linux, and BSD operating systems. As a replacement for the sendmail system provided with virtually every UNIX server, qmail functions uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to exchange messages with MTAs on other systems. Qmail is an Internet Mail Transfer […]

Dynamic Disks The dynamic disk format can be accessed only by Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional operating systems. You convert basic disks to dynamic by using the Disk Management snap-in or the DiskPart command line utility. When you convert a basic disk to dynamic, all existing basic volumes become dynamic volumes. Dynamic disks provide […]

Operating system Storage types Partition styles Basic volumes Dynamic simple, spanned, and stripped volumes MBR disks GPT disks Windows XP Home Edition YES NO YES NO  Windows XP Professional YES YES YES NO Windows 2000 Server YES YES YES NO Windows 2000 Advanced Server YES YES YES  NO  Windows 2000 Datacenter Server YES YES YES  NO Windows XP 64-Bit Edition YES […]

602Pro LAN Suite 2002 is a perfect example of a product that is both more and less. 602Pro LAN Suite 2002 is a perfect example of a product that is both more and less. It’s more because it bundles what are often separate products into a single suite of servers, offering Mail server, Web server, […]

There are certain Flexible Single Masters of Operation (FSMO) roles that are Forest Wide Operations Master Roles. This means that no matter how many domains exist in the forest you will only have one of the following FSMO servers each in the forest. The Schema Master Domain Controller handles all of the updates and modifications […]

The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 1.3.26 of the Apache HTTP Server. This Announcement notes the significant changes in 1.3.26. This newest version is primarily a security and bug-fix release designed to address security problems with chunked transfer encoding. This version of Apache is […]

by Marcin Policht System Administrators are frequently asked to provide inventory of their environment. Marcin Policht’s latest article offers several scripts for situations where you would need to create a separate list of users and/or computers in a Windows NT/2000 domain. System Administrators are frequently asked to provide inventory of their environment. Such requests might […]

This Developer Shed article talks about HTTP proxying, getting started with Apache, configuring for proxy, setting up proxy in http client, filtering and rejecting requests, caching, and more. (Examples tested on Linux/i686 with Apache 1.3 and Apache 2.0.) The cool thing about Apache, though, is that it’s not just a Web server. It can do […]

“Sun Microsystems is hard at work on the Network Administrator for Solaris exam that will cover Solaris 9. The exam will be offered in beta from June 17 through July 9. …” Sun Readying Solaris 9 Network Admin Exam. A beta exam is coming soon.

The first window that appears is the Welcome to the Files and Settings Transfer Wizard startup window. From here you would select NEXT to continue. The next screen that appears is the WHICH COMPUTER IS THIS screen, where you would select either NEW COMPUTER, where you would want to transfer your files and settings to, […]

I ran the default selection of both files and settings on my 2 GHZ Pentium 4 system, which has three SCSI-3 18.2 GB 10,000 RPM hard drives, set up as individual basic drives and one ATA-100 80GB IDE hard drive, also set up as an individual basic drive, all using the NTFS file system. Of […]