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Windows 7 vs. Windows Vista

Versions and Variations Windows 7 is the latest OS from Microsoft’s arsenal, the previous one being Vista.  There was a big hype when Windows 7 was released that its performance will be better manifold when compared to its forerunner Vista.

We will see here whether Windows 7 lived up to its expectations or not.  Also, we will see if Windows 7 is better than Vista and if so, how? Vista and its Flavors Windows Vista has many versions or flavors and the most extensively used four flavors are Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista...

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What is XAMPP

There are a number of AMP type packages around. This article is aimed at explaining what exactly an AMP package, is, which packages are available, and take a more in-depth look at the XAMPP offering, and what differentiates it from the others.

AMP – What does this mean? The term AMP includes any software package containing the following:
  • Apache (the Web Server)
  • My SQL Server (the Database management system, or Database Server)
  • P – any of PHP, Perl or Python (All programming languages used in Web development)
So, AMP is an acronym, and refers to...

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Wi-Max versus WiFi

The human society has been divided into different ages and eras depending upon the different types of advancements, progress, and developmental stages of evolution through which it has passed during the course of the history.

The Paleolithic era, the Neolithic era, the stone age, the industrial revolution and the invention of steam engines, the modern times and now the post-modern contemporary times. However talking and discussing about the technological changes; in fact the birth of technology more specifically, the age of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is characterized by the historians to have...

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Outlook Vs Lotus notes

Microsoft Outlook – An Overview Description Microsoft Outlook deals with numerous accounts, such as MSN, Exchange, IMAP, Hotmail, and POP accounts. It offers several effective ways and filters to thread, organize, find, and label the messages.

Besides, it also features special phishing and junk mail filters that are programmed to move all the unsolicited messages automatically to a special folder, called the ‘Junk e-mail’. Outlook supports Windows 7, XP, and Vista. The unique RSS feed reader is designed to treat all the news items as e-mails. Moreover, with...

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Internal Characteristic of Hard Disk and the impacts of RPM

Hard disk or hard drive is the main storage device of any type of computer. Besides the storing pattern with RAM, the main difference of hard disk is, it has “non-volatile” characteristic. That is it does not lose its data due to power cut.

Unlike RAM where bit is recognize as the “presence” or “absence” of volts, hard disks store data based on magnetization. But before jumping onto it, we need to understand the construction pattern of a hard disk. The most...

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SP1 already?  Old dogs, new tricks in Exchange 2010

It's a long and arduous wait, but it was well worth it. Seasoned administrators never seem to take to new software until they've been sufficiently recognized as all-too-fallible. Therefore, we shan't be surprised that the first Service Pack for Microsoft's Exchange Server 2010 was so well-received it beat the original release's fanfare to a downright knock-out.

Let us all take a deep breath and go through some of SP1's new features before we make up our mind: after all, it isn't so much as price...

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Sugar CRM compared with other top CRM products

In the present business scenario, the importance of an open-source solution for CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is something that no organization can afford to neglect. Nevertheless, open-source software is beneficial only for those businesses that are willing to adapt every single aspect of their CRM experience to the current needs of the customers and to the dynamic business environment.

Open-source CRM solutions will make no sense for organizations that rely on complete ‘out-of-the-box’, readymade applications. If it were not for these open-source CRM applications, the CRM buyers would have very...

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Cloud Computing Providers

Cloud computing is a technology, evolved as a result of advancement in  virtualization, that based on Internet such that the sharing of resources, information, data and software's takes place between different computers and devices when demanded, like the electricity grid phenomena. There are many big names that come to one’s mind while talking about the cloud computing service providers.

Google is a visionary cloud computing service provider that offers great variety of services...

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All ports used in Active directory

Microsoft created a technology founded in Novell directory called Active Directory with customized version of offering protocols as well as services which gives diversity of network service. Active Directory 2003 is one of the operating systems developed by Microsoft, released on the 24th of April 2003. The two area organizers are equal in the similar forest; otherwise the two area organizers are equal in a dissimilar forest. The beliefs in forest are in Windows 2003, otherwise later version beliefs. Following are the Customer Port(s) plus Server Port Service.

                                

1024-65535 / TCP135...

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Exchange 2007 roles explained each of the 5 roles

Exchange 2007 features a brand new concept for the Exchange organizations. This feature involves the theory of server roles, the workings of which is quite similar to that of how the Windows server is capable of hosting more than one role at a time. A comparable configuration is now implemented in the Exchange Server 2007.

    

A server role is a server functionality which allows an administrator to split the various functions of the Exchange Server and place either every role or a...

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