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Archive for March, 2008

Housing Your Network: What to Look for in a Datacenter

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Dave Wales asked: When running an online business, two of the key things to look at are bandwidth and security – how much traffic can your site handle, and how is your content going to be protected? It all starts with having the right infrastructure and hardware in place - ...

5 Easy Steps To Protect Your Small Business From Spyware

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Nick Pegley asked: If your computers are in any way connected the Internet, they are being regularly bombarded with spyware, viruses, and other malware. Here are 5 easy steps you can follow to block these programs, or at least detect and remove spyware from your firm's networks and computer systems.What ...

Protecting Your Company From an Online Data Breach

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Dovell Bonnett asked: Why do data thieves attack corporate computer networks? Well, to paraphrase Willie Sutton, it's because that's where the data is. As I said in previously, a data breach is usually done in one of two ways.A data thief will either employ physical means, such as dumpster diving, ...

What Protection Is Used To Guard The Ethernet Networks From Lightening Storms?

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

kenjacy asked: I am managing an Ethernet network and using switches to join network sections. The network cable used is CAT 5e. When there is strong lightening, some switch ports cease from working. The buildings have lightening arresters, is there an additional thing I should do to protect the network against ...

The Ethics of Peer to Peer Networks

Monday, March 10th, 2008

Peter Nisbet asked: There is nothing illegal about peer-to-peer networks, and nothing illegal with using them to distribute files. What is illegal is to use these networks and associated software to download material which is protected by copyright.It is not always obvious what is still copyright protected, though you can ...

Social Networking: Quality Vs. Quantity

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Joel Postman asked: The value of your social networks is largely based on the quality, and to some extent quantity, of people in them.While nearly all social networks have a “Terms of Service” (TOS), the rules for participation (don’t post obscenities or copyrighted material, for example), the etiquette for adding ...

ABC refused to air the Alliance for Climate Protection’s Repower America ad about how oil and coal companies ?

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

RED asked: have blocked the country's switch to truly clean energy. do you think that a TV network should be able to do that? so how balanced do you think their coverage of any Oil related issue would be? Both debates had oil / coal industry ads before and ...