April, 2010
How to Monitor your Linux Box With netstat Command
netstat (network statistics) is a command-line tool that displays network connections (both incoming and outgoing), routing tables, and a number of network interface statistics. It is available on Unix, Unix-like, and Windows NT-based operating systems. Netstat is a useful tool for checking your network configuration and activity. It is in fact a collection of several [...]
Net domain names in Indian languages
If everything goes well as planned, India will be ready to have internationalised domain names (IDN) on the internet in seven Indian languages — Hindi, Bangla, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati — by next year. The department of information technology (DIT), Government of India will submit its proposal by next month to The Internet [...]
Net domain names in Indian languages
If everything goes well as planned, India will be ready to have internationalised domain names (IDN) on the internet in seven Indian languages — Hindi, Bangla, Punjabi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati — by next year. The department of information technology (DIT), Government of India will submit its proposal by next month to The Internet [...]
Increase in latency/ packet drops due to SMW4 outage
IP Backbone capacity has been impacted due to an ongoing shunt fault in seg 4.1 of SMW4 between Alexandria & Marseilles with Cable Fault on FP#2 at 1886.152 Km from Alexandria towards Palermo. The Cable ship Electra has been mobilized by the consortium for repairs. The ship is expected to arrive at cable ground on [...]
Apple shares rocket after net income jumps 90 pct
The paparazzi may have moved on to Apple’s sexy newiPad, but the iPhone is still Wall Street’s darling. Apple sold a record 8.8 million of its popular smart phones in the three months that ended March 27, more than doubling the number sold a year ago and topping last quarter’s 8.7 million. The company’s net income shot up 90 percent, shattering [...]
How to setup Folder Redirection in windows 2003 with Group Policy
Assigning roaming profiles to users can greatly reduce your day to day workload. Windows provides the ability to redirect specific user folders to server locations, using a group policy extension called Folder Redirection.Many administrators may wish to use folder redirection in such a way that a user’s folders are automatically redirected to a newly created [...]
Twitter in no hurry to show ads beyond search
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone is confident people will love seeing interesting ads amid the rest of the chatter on his company’s Internet communications service. But he and the rest of Twitter’s management team aren’t in any rush to prove it after waiting four years to usher in advertising. The ads may be confined to Twitter.com‘s search results for several [...]
Some Information about AdSense ads and site speed
A useful mail from Google Adsense Team Earlier today, our Websearch team announced that we now consider the speed it takes for a website to load when ranking it in Google search results on google.com. As an AdSense publisher and website owner, you may have questions about this change, so we’d like to take a [...]
Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor
Google has kept a promise it made last year: Site speed is now a ranking factor in Google’s algorithm, and is already in place for U.S. searchers. But Google also cautions web site owners not to sacrifice relevance in the name of faster web pages, and even says this new ranking factor will impact very few [...]
Microsoft Corp is set to announce its long-awaited “Project Pink” phones
Microsoft Corp is set to announce its long-awaited “Project Pink” phones early next week, sources familiar with the matter said, as the world’s largest software company attempts to gain traction in the growing market for young smartphone users. The mobile phones, to be sold by top US mobile operator Verizon Wireless, are being targeted at [...]
Chinese agents hack into India’s secret documents
Major Indian missile and armament systems may have been compromised as Chinese hackers have reportedly broken into top secret files of the Indian Defence Ministry and embassies around the world. Among the systems leaked out could be Shakti, the just introduced advanced artillery combat and control system of the Indian Army and the country’s new [...]
How is the stack master elected – Cisco Catalyst 3750 Switch Stacks
These rules have been defined to determine which unit within a stack is chosen as the master. When switches are added or stacks are merged, the master will be chosen based on these rules, in the order specified: The switch that is currently the stack master Note: When stacks merge, the elected stack master would [...]
What are Small Form-Factor Pluggables
SFPs are transceivers that provide Gigabit Ethernet connectivity from the Cisco Catalyst 3750 switches to distribution layer switches. They are functionally equivalent to Gigabit Interface Converters (GBICs), but are much smaller.
What is Cisco StackWise technology
The Cisco StackWise technology provides an innovative method for collectively using and extending the resourcesof a stack of units. Up to nine switches can be joined together to create a single switching unit with a virtual 32-Gbpsstack interconnect. Furthermore, the entire stack can be managed as one unit with a single IP address. To the [...]