The following advantages are particularly true for LANs, although they apply to MANs and WANs as well.   Sharing of peripheral devices Laser printers, disk drives, and scanners are examples of peripheral devices that is, hardware that is connected to a computer. Any newly introduced piece of hardware is often quite expensive, as was the case with laser or color printers. To justify their purchase, companies want them to be shared by many users. Usually [...]

Application Software is a personal productivity program. This Software allows the user to apply the computer to common problems and tasks an Individual may have, even if not part of an organization. Often, personal productivity software is sold in packages that contain the program itself, a copyright agreement, and a user’s manual with operating instructions. The most popular personal productivity programs fall into four basic categories: word processing, electronic spreadsheet, graphics, and database.

If you are new to the web hosting industry you must be using one of the control panels provided by your hosting provider, such as cPanel, Plesk or a native web UI from your hosting provider. But if you are to get the full advantage of your hosting service you might want to do you own customizations, performance tuneups, etc.. Since there are limitations to what you can do with your control panel most of [...]

SSH or Secure Shell is a UNIX-based network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. SSH is actually a suite of three utilities – slogin, ssh, and scp – that are secure versions of the earlier UNIX utilities, rlogin, rsh, and rcp. SSH commands are encrypted and secure in several ways. Both ends of the client/server connection are authenticated using a digital certificate, and then the passwords [...]

The following trick may look extremely simple. But since they are unaware of this neat trick, most of the MS Office users follow a very rigorous path to add a simple Table of Contents to their documents. In doing so they waste so much time. Simply follow the following steps to add your very own Table of Contents. (The screens shots are taken from MS Office Word 2010. But the process is the same with MS Word [...]