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How does Public Key Cryptography Work in DNSSEC?

By chco : 06 September 2011 - 11:36 AM
DNSSEC validates information by using public key cryptography. To understand DNSSEC, therefore, you need to review some basic concepts related to this technology, such as key pairs, digital signatures...
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How Not to Be a Computer Jerk

By chco : 10 August 2011 - 04:50 AM
Gary A. Donahue, author of Network Warrior, Second Edition, shares his observations about how people become "computer jerks" and how to turn that around.The computer industry is known for at...
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How to Sell Your Ideas to Management

By chco : 09 August 2011 - 02:54 AM
You’ve got a great idea that you believe will change something for the better. Maybe it’s the network, or maybe it’s the way the company hires and interviews people, but you know it’s worth do...
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How Routers Communicate

By chco : 08 August 2011 - 04:07 AM
A routing protocol is a means whereby devices exchange information about the state of the network. The information collected from other devices is used to make decisions about the best path for packet...
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What exactly is IPv6?

By chco : 01 August 2011 - 04:58 PM
The exhaustion of the IPv4 address space wasn’t unexpected, of course. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) developed IP version 6 in the 1990s largely in anticipation of this day. Likewise, t...
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How to Crawl Followers on Twitter to Approximate Potential Influence

By chco : 26 April 2011 - 11:23 AM
Suppose you want to approximate someone’s influence based upon their popularity and the popularity of their followers. The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication 21 Recipes for Mining T...
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Library Style wifi login web site

Asked by sparkie4080 : 20 March 2011 - 05:27 PM

Answered by Alejandro Ramirez : Jun 29 2011 07:29 AM
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How to make a Intel Pentium MMX work wirelessly on my linksys?

Asked by motty910 : 04 March 2011 - 04:37 PM
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The Most Common XBee Mistakes

By ProfessorShiny : 11 February 2011 - 10:41 AM
When it’s late at night and you just can’t get your ZigBee network working, more than likely a simple solution is waiting in the wings. Here are some tips for resolving issues typically encountere...
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How to Use Direct Input and Output on an XBee Radio

By ProfessorShiny : 09 February 2011 - 09:20 AM
Each XBee ZB (Series 2) ZigBee radio (for example XB24-Z7WIT-004) has the capability to directly gather sensor data and transmit it, without the use of an external microcontroller. This means that you...
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