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Chris Trawick Overview: Okay. You’ve already downloaded the “Migrating an NT 4 domain to Windows 2000” technical white paper from the Microsoft website. You may have even said to yourself “Holy smokes, it’s a trillion pages long. How is a guy ever going to find time to read this thing?” A very salient question indeed. […]

Chris Trawick Overview: A few months ago, I left a local hospital where I had served as Network Administrator for about 4 years. Because I had spent a reasonably extended period of time on the job there, I was fortunate to work with a good team of network analysts and technicians.  Overview: A few months […]

Chris Trawick Overview: Today, network administrators and IT support staff are faced with a tremendous amount of routine activities that must be accomplished on a regular basis. In addition to resolving normal user issues and problems, the average IT staff member today is often charged with many additional responsibilities such as verifying and testing network […]

Joco Vieira This one I think it will help many people , it was one of my biggest problems when I started some more advanced web programming a couple of years ago. What I am showing here is many ways to send the variables name and phone from one HTML/ASP to an ASP. This one […]

Joco Vieira This one is very simple…. but there is always someone trying to reach this code…. I hope you understand the code. 1. First I have created a variable that at the end could give me if the validation is ok or not ‘goby’. 2. So, I have used the function InStr that gives […]

Watkins Random Password Generation Home Articles Origin Designs Coding Music See the code in action: Click here If you let users sign up for accounts online, most likely you will be automatically giving them temporary passwords after signup. Sometimes these passwords are given out through email or instantly presented on a web page. Either way, […]

Watkins Utilizing The Split Function Home Articles Origin Designs Coding Music See this script in action: click here If your site allows users to input information for processing or storage, then you most likely know what a pain it is to write out and organize those pages. Taking into possibly all errors that can occur […]

York  One of the functions that Microsoft left out of SMS 2.0 is the ability to collect inventory from a stand-alone system, yes I know that you can create a MIF & obtain some information that way. But that is a work around I’m talking about being able to collect the full software & hardware […]

by Denise Wambsganss Denise Wambsganss has 14 years of professional recruiting experience. She began her recruiting career with Kelly Services spending the first 2 years in the temporary field, She then played the role of a permanent placement/headhunter for 7 years, and the last 5 years have been exclusively recruiting in the IT ( Information […]

Welcome to this installment of “Learn Windows XP Professional in 15 minutes a week,” the 23rd in this series. In this article we will look at User Rights/User Privileges under Windows XP Professional. Managing user rights and privileges is key to the security and health of any system. Continuing his series, Jason Zandri helps prospective […]

A solid iptables firewall may be best choice for protecting clients, but its sophistication and configurability come with a long learning curve. For those looking to build a firewall quickly, Firestarter is an easy-to-use configuration helper.

Road warriors and other remote workers require access to the company network. One of the most secure ways to provide this is via a virtual private network, which can cost a bundle. OpenVPN, is both open source and free of charge, and is also is one of the best of such offerings.