The underlying technology powering the Internet is going through a major overhaul as IPv6 is slowly replacing the aging IPv4, the most widely used networking protocol. The adoption rate has been slow but more and more companies are implementing the new protocol. Google is already one of the biggest adopters and is no... |
21 November 2009
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The web is booming, more and more people are online and more websites are popping up than ever. In fact, the number of websites and computers connected to the Internet is becoming so great, that we're running out of IP addresses to assign them. This shortage can be avoided by switching from the old and widely us... |
3 November 2009
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One of the most popular, C-written BitTorrent clients for Mac OS X, Transmission has reached its third Beta in version 1.50. The free application aims to be as efficient as possible. Details on the new release, as well as a download link are available just below.Transmission is a BitTorrent client much like Vuze, or ... |
23 January 2009
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Transmission, one of the favorites in BitTorrent clients for Mac, has reached version 1.50 Beta, adding support for Internet Protocol version 6, (IPv6). The latest stable version of the software (Transmission 1.42) is also available for free download. According to the changelog, Transmission 1.50 Beta 1 adds IPv6 su... |
12 January 2009
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TCP/IP, an acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is a suite of protocols supported by Microsoft with the Windows family of platforms. Essentially, through its components, TCP/IP is used for communications on both private networks and on the Internet. As far as the world wide web is concerned, t... |
2 June 2008
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Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the net, who played a key role in the development of the protocols (like the IPv4 that is currently the most used IP version in the world) which underpin the global internet has recently said: "There is a risk of not being able to get online." He added: "The rate of consumpt... |
31 October 2007
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Microsoft has set up the networking infrastructure in Windows Vista in such a manner that it requires only minimal user interaction, especially when the operating system has to interact with a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. DHCP is designed to take the user out of the equation of assigning an Inte... |
5 October 2007
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Windows Vista will be situated at the heart of the next generation of IP addresses. Microsoft's latest operating system will provide the main infrastructure for the adoption of IPv6. The most recent predictions point out that by 2010, the current IPv4 addresses are expected to completely run out. The Internet As... |
28 May 2007
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You get a batch of semiconductors, put in some silicon to make the mixture homogeneous, bake it for 25 minutes at 250 degrees Celsius, then take the result, spread it evenly in a straight line over a couple of kilometers, and look really silly while doing it. Or you can just call up the researchers from the Universi... |
25 April 2007
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Most of you know that DHCP is an extension of BootP (Bootstrap Protocol - an UDP network protocol used by the network client to automatically obtain the IP address). BootP is practically an automated process of booting the machines in a LAN. All the network parameters are put in a server and when the machine in the L... |
17 March 2007
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Symantec has updated its analysis of the network attack surface in Windows Vista. After having evaluated the network-facing components of the beta version of the operating system, at the end of Vista's first month of commercial availability Symantec has made available an updated study. The release of Vista has m... |
7 March 2007
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The weakest link in Windows Vista is the network protocol stack. This because, with Vista, Microsoft has rewritten the network protocol stack from the grounds up. Symantec's conclusions on the security advancements brought to the table by Windows Vista single out the network protocol stack. The bottom line is th... |
6 March 2007
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