Free Microsoft eBooks
FREE Microsoft eBooks! Who doesn’t love FREE Microsoft eBooks? Well, for the past few years, I’ve provided posts containing almost 150 FREE Microsoft eBooks and my readers, new and existing, have loved these posts so much that they downloaded over 3.5 Million free eBooks as of last June, including over 1,000,000 in a single week last year (and many, many more since then). Read More
Understanding the Differences between Cat 5e and Cat 6 Ethernet Cabling
While there are three Ethernet cable choices in use—Cat 5, Cat 5e and Cat 6—only the latter two are still considered viable choices for telecom and industrial applications. Since August 2009, when ANSI/TIA-568-C.2 (Balanced Twisted-Pair Telecommunications Cabling and Components Standard) was published, category 5 has been superseded by category 5e and is no longer recognized by this standard. The use of category 5e or better cabling is recommended for all new installations. And yet even with this simplification, there is still a great deal of confusion among Ethernet cable users concerning whether to use Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable. Read More
XAMPP v.1.8.0 Released
Apache Friends has just released a new version of their most popular project “XAMPP”.
In this version there are a lot of improvements and module updates. The latest version of XAMPP is not available in MacOS but is in progress. Read More
Tomorrow is World IPv6 Day, Are You Ready?
It seems like the day has come. Finally, after lots of announcements and …promises, the day that IPv6 will be activated is tomorrow. It’s not a coincidence that the 6th day of the 6th month is chosen as the IPv6 start up day… Read More