For websites, just images and a color scheme do not make a design. The user interface that is everywhere on a website, such as pagers, topic trees, tabs, icons etc, are also an important element. That…
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The presentation or the looks of the text on-screen or in print can be described and beautified by different types of fonts. Fonts are a collection of alphanumeric characters and symbols. They describ…
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Hard disk drives are the most important storage devices that store and retrieve data as per users’ needs. Unlike other storage mediums, such as CDs/DVDs, etc., the HDDs consist of ‘Platters’. The plat…
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As the name suggests a User Group is a pool of user accounts sharing the same security rights. They are sometimes also referred to as Security Groups. It is inconvenient to assign a same set of privil…
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When users log on to Microsoft Windows using their credentials, they are assigned with access tokens that specify the level of privileges they would get while accessing the objects and resources that …
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Security of any object or a user account in a computer can be considered complete only when it contains a set of credentials that are comprised of two entities, namely Username and Password. In almost…
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Windows Media Player has been in existence since the release of the very first Graphical User Interface operating system by Microsoft. Every time a new version of Microsoft Windows is released, Window…
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Time is important on servers, especially mission-critical ones. You, as system administrator have to make sure that the time on all of your servers is correct. You can use NTP to sync time on your ser…
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In Microsoft Windows operating systems, the drive letters of partitions play an important role when identifying the volumes. In earlier days, when the floppy disks were used as the removable medias, t…
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In Microsoft Windows-based operating systems, multiple user accounts are created by the administrators so that a single computer can be shared by many users. When a user account is created in the Wind…
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In my previous blog posts, I have discussed many new and advanced features of the Ubuntu Linux operating system that makes it a perfect choice of home and entertainment purposes. However, it does not …
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Computers are becoming an essential part of education and some universities and colleges encourage students bring their laptops along with them in the classroom. Some majors such as engineering requir…
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Something about Built-In Administrator Account With the release of NTFS oriented Microsoft-based operating systems, the concept of administrator and standard user accounts was also introduced. An Admi…
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Programming becomes so easy when we have to follow a straight path, as in life we all dream of a comfortable existence without any distractions, deviations and obstacles. Unfortunately life has a bad …
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Remote Desktop is a feature that was introduced with the release of Microsoft Windows 2000 but was not much recognized and used by the administrators in most corporate environments. The reason behind …
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Passwords are the most important aspects of Windows-based or non-Windows-based operating systems. In production environments, where security is a major concern, network administrators always protect t…
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Websites are primarily created through HTML programming. A web page created in HTML is a dumb entity; it does not know who fetched it for browsing and where that website visitor was located. The most …
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As we all know, almost all the applications need updates every once in a while. These updates are released for bringing further improvements in the software. Same is the case with operating systems. T…
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Earphone is something you always want to replace for a better music listening experience. Most music players come with their own earphones but they don’t give music quality as good as separate earphon…
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When we create a web application, it comprises of a user interface and server side program written in a language like PHP. This PHP program should receive some values through the user interface, proce…
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Internet is constantly growing and so are new social networks. Facebook and Twitter are constantly reviewing their security policies and introducing new features, and so people are putting more and mo…
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Quota Management feature is integrated in almost all Microsoft-based operating systems that support NTFS file system. With the help of this feature, administrators can restrict users from consuming di…
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When you start programming in PHP or any other programming language, one of the first things you learn is the constants and variables. These constants and variables are basically the placeholders, whe…
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After several years of use some computer owners hear a certain type of noise from the hard-disks. It is the sign of hard-disk failure. You should replace the hard-disk very soon; otherwise you may los…
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register_globals is a configuration setting in the php.ini file. Before we go in some details about register_globals, it is important to make some of our newbies introduced to php.ini file because the…
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