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If you have an interest in information security from a technical or managerial point of view, check out Principles of Information Security. It does an excellent job of presenting material for both audiences.
If you have other vendors you would like to see on this list, send me a message …
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One of the more underrated tools included with Microsoft Windows Server is Network Monitor. Network Monitor is a packet capture tool that allows network administrators to gain insight into what network traffic is being sent and received by the server. This data can be useful in diagnosing various network problems …
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I was involved in a project to apply a maintenance release to an existing Lotus
Domino installation running on Windows Server 2003. The goal was to upgrade the
server from version 6.5.5 to 6.5.6. During the upgrade process, the installer
checks the version of Domino that …
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When using Microsoft Excel in a business environment, there are five essential items that every user should be aware of. One of the most basic features that is essential to effective spreadsheet usage is cell referencing. This is the ability for one cell to use the value of another cell …
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As discussed previously, we're going to enable RFC 1323 Window Scaling and increase the default TCP receive and send windows to 1 MB. By default Windows 2000 and XP do not offer window scaling options, but will accept them if offered by the other side. To make our changes, we'll …
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Note: Although this is a continuation of the TCP Performance Tuning article series, it's also valuable as a standalone reference.
This is a list of 14 congestion control algorithms available in TCP. I'm presenting it in alphabetical order.
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