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Client-side scripting – Method

Client-side scripts are often embedded within an HTML document (hence known as an “embedded script”), but they may also be contained in a separate file, which is referenced by the document (or documents) that use it (hence known as an “external script”). Upon request, the necessary files are sent to the user’s computer by the [...]

ConcourseConnect – Software Requirements

The product is a pure-Java server-side web application and will run on any platform where Java (JDK 5 or better) is installed. *Operating Systems ** Microsoft Windows ** Linux, Solaris ** Mac OS X *Application Servers ** Apache Tomcat (5.5 or better recommended) *Databases ** Postgres (8.0 or better recommended) Adapted from the Wikipedia article [...]

Self-certifying File System – Introduction

Self-certifying File System (SFS) is a global and decentralized, distributed file system for Unix-like operating systems, while also providing transparent encryption of communications as well as authentication. It aims to be the universal distributed file system by providing uniform access to any available server, however, the usefulness of SFS is limited by the low deployment [...]

Gordano Messaging Suite – Introduction

Gordano Messaging Suite (GMS) is a commercial mail and groupware server developed by Gordano Ltd. It runs on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX. Originally called NTMail which was the first commercially available mail for the Windows platform, the products were rebranded to the Gordano Messaging Suite in August 2002 to reflect the support for additional [...]

Time Protocol – Introduction

Time Protocol is a network protocol in the Internet Protocol Suite defined in 1983 in RFC 868. Its purpose is to provide a site-independent, machine readable date and time. The Time Protocol may be implemented over the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). A host connects to a server that supports [...]

Hardware-assisted virtualization – Cons

Hardware-assisted virtualization requires explicit support in the host CPU, which is not available on all x86/x86_64 processors. A “pure” hardware-assisted virtualization approach, using entirely unmodified guest operating systems, involves many VM traps, and thus high CPU overheads, limiting scalability and the efficiency of server consolidation. This performance hit can be mitigated by the use of [...]

Symantec Endpoint Protection – Proactive protection

Endpoint 11 uses Symantec’s TruScan technologies to facilitate detection of unknown malware. It analyzes both “safe” and “negative” behaviors of unknown applications. Endpoint 11 integrates Symantec’s Deepsight honeypot sensors to warn of emerging threats and provide threat advisories. Proactive Threat Protection feature is currently not supported on 64-bit or Server Operating Systems. Adapted from the [...]

Port number – Use in URLs

Port numbers can occasionally be seen in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a website or other services. By default, HTTP uses port 80 and HTTPS uses port 443, but a URL like http://www.example.com:8000/path/ specifies that the web site is served by the HTTP server on port 8000. The active transport layer protocol ports may [...]

NTBackup – Introduction

NTBackup is the built-in backup application introduced in Windows NT around 1997 and part of all subsequent versions up to and including Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It uses a proprietary backup format (BKF) (also known as “Microsoft Tape Format” or MTF) to back up files. Files can be backed up to [...]

SIGPWR – Usage

SIGPWR is sent when a power failure is imminent; for example, when the battery is running low on a laptop or when a power failure forces a server to switch to an uninterruptible power supply. Programs would be expected to synchronise state to permanent storage to ensure that if the system powers off data is [...]

Character Generator Protocol – Inetd implementation

On most UNIX-like operating systems a CHARGEN server is built into the inetd (or xinetd) daemon. The CHARGEN service is usually not enabled by default. It may be enabled by adding the following lines to the file /etc/inetd.conf and telling inetd to reload its configuration: chargen stream tcp nowait root internal chargen dgram udp wait [...]

Navicat – Features

Some of its features include: *Visual query builder *SSH and HTTP tunneling *Data and structure migration and synchronization *Import and export and backup of data *Report builder *Task scheduling and wizards tool There are differences in the features available across operating systems. It should be noted that all versions of Navicat that supports MySQL server [...]

Time Protocol – Inetd implementation

On most UNIX-like operating systems a Time Protocol server is built into the inetd (or xinetd) daemon. The service is usually not enabled by default. It may be enabled by adding the following lines to the file /etc/inetd.conf time stream tcp nowait root internal time dgram udp wait root internal and reloading the configuration. Adapted [...]

Internet Explorer 8 – Introduction

Windows Internet Explorer 8 (abbreviated as IE8) is the latest web browser developed by Microsoft in the Internet Explorer browser series. The browser was released on March 19, 2009 for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Windows 7. Both 32-bit and 64-bit builds are available. It is the successor to [...]









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