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Thomas Shinder The Winner’s Edge What seems to be even more important than the amount of knowledge the successful students has is the student’s attitude. Although you’ve heard it before, the oft-quoted phrase “attitude is everything” is as true in IT as it is in any other profession, maybe more so. The successful student’s attitude […]

Thomas Shinder Cache (flow) Problems The Web Proxy services Web Cache is a wonderful thing. If you’re in an environment where you have to pay packet charges on data moving through your Internet connection, you can save a lot of money by implementing caching of web pages. The Web Cache can also significantly improve perceived […]

Thomas Shinder WinSock Proxy Related Problems The WinSock Proxy service is used to provide access for WinSock programs that are not able to use the Web Proxy service. Since the Web Proxy service supports only CERN compliant applications and only the FTP, HTTP, HTTPS and gopher protocols, you must use the WinSock Proxy service to […]

Thomas Shinder SOCKS Proxy Problems The SOCKS Proxy service is used to allow non-Windows clients access to the Internet via the Proxy Server. If you are running a Windows only environment, it would be best to completely ignore the SOCKS Proxy service. Better yet, disable the SOCKS Proxy. You can stop the SOCKS Proxy service […]

Thomas Shinder The WinSock Proxy Service The WinSock Proxy Service provides Internet access to WinSock applications that are not CERN compliant. Since the Web Proxy Service provide support only for CERN complaint browsers, and only supports FTP, HTTPS, HTTP and Gopher, the WinSock Proxy Service provides the support for other important protocols. SMTP, NNTP, IRC, […]

Thomas Shinder The SOCKS Proxy Service The SOCKS Proxy Service allows Internet access for your non-Windows clients that need access to protocols not supported by the Web Proxy Service. You might think of the SOCKS Proxy Service as the Mac/UNIX version of the WinSock Proxy service. However, the two services are managed quite differently from […]

Thomas Shinder Client-side Array Routing When a Proxy Server that is a member of a Proxy Array receives a request for an Internet object, it must perform a series of calculations to determine where the object is located in the Web Cache, and if it is located in there at all. This takes a number […]

Thomas Shinder So Exactly When Will a DHCP Server Start? The new DHCP server will start DHCP server services if: There are other DHCP servers on the segment that are authorized DHCP servers and the new DHCP server is listed in the Active Directory’s list of authorized DHCP servers, or The new DHCP server is […]

Deb Shinder This led me to consider, a few years ago, buying a Palm Pilot. They were cute and popular; almost everyone had one. But I couldn’t muster any enthusiasm. I do Windows. Unlike many people, I like Windows. I welcomed the emergence from the Dark Place of DOS into the sunlight that came streaming […]

Thomas Shinder

Thomas Shinder

Thomas Shinder