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Updating Drivers and System Files Windows 2000 supports updating drivers in a few different ways. One way is via Device Manager, where drivers can be updated on a device-by-device basis as necessary using the Update Device Driver Wizard. Note that it is also possible to update device drivers (as well as system files) via the […]

In order to upgrade the disk to dynamic, it must have at least 1 MB of unallocated space available. While Windows 2000 will allow for this when you format a disk, other operating system-created partitions may not. Only Windows 2000 can access a Dynamic Disk locally, so if you have a dual boot, other OSes […]

Disk Quotas Another new feature in Windows 2000 is the ability to use disk quotas. Disk quotas allow an Administrator to be able to track how much disk space a particular user is using, and decide on an appropriate course of action. The important stuff about disk quotas: – Can only be set up on […]

User and group Settings In Windows 2000 Professional, users and groups are created using the Computer Management tool’s Users and Groups extension. By default, W2K Pro still only includes two user accounts by default, Administrator and Guest. Similar to NT 4, the Guest account is disabled by default. Both accounts can be renamed, though neither […]

– Install RIS on the server by first installing the Remote Installation Services, rebooting, and then running Risetup.exe from the Run command. – While using Risetup.exe, you will be asked whether you want to RIS to respond to all client requests, or not to unknown computers. If you choose the second option, only pre-staged computers […]

by Carl Campos You are sitting at your workstation, looking for the umpteenth time at that MCSE certification path for Windows 2000, when you hear it.  “Uh, oh…”, one of the other network administrators says.  You ignore him.  You’re looking for the IIS 5.0 exam to replace your IIS 4.0 exam.  The IIS 5.0 exam […]

Jamie Rees Introduction Introduction Apache is the worlds most popular web server software. That is according to the fine people at Netcraft. In their survey for February 2001, which polled 28,125,284 sites, Apache was found to be serving almost a full 60% of them. Microsofts family of IIS based servers (includes Personal Web Server) is […]

UnixInsider (formerly SunWorld) announced they are closing down. UnixInsider (formerly SunWorld) announced they are closing down.

‘The dot in.com’ ad campaign by Sun is soon going to be replaced with a new campaign ‘taking business to the nth degree’. It has already been rolled out in the US and is expected to roll out in the Asia Pacific region, including India by early next month. ‘The dot in.com’ ad campaign by […]

Sun Microsystems president Ed Zander said he has never seen a technology capital-spending downturn as “dramatic and sudden” as the current slump that has resulted in cutbacks at blue-chip technology companies. Sun Microsystems president Ed Zander said he has never seen a technology capital-spending downturn as dramatic and sudden as the current slump that has […]

parallel threads on win32. [William Rowe] *) Correct a bug in determining when we follow symlinks. The code expected a stat -1 result, not an apr_status_t positive error. Also check if the APR_FINFO_USER fields are valid before we follow the link. [William Rowe] *) Move initgroupgs, ap_uname2id and ap_gname2id from util.c to mpm_common.c. These functions […]

always recognizing configuration changes made using the autoconf setup. [Ryan Bloom] *) Allow the buildconf process to find the config.m4 files in the correct order. Basically, we can now name config.m4 files as configdd.m4, and we will sort them correctly when inserting them into the build process. [Ryan Bloom] *) Get mod_cgid to use apr […]