Monthly Archives: April 2008
A NetBackup master server manages the who, what, where, when, and why
A backup server under the control of a NetBackup master server is called a media server, which is any NetBackup server having management control over physical storage devices, such as tapes, tape drives, optical drives, robotic control, and robotic management. The media server will respond to requests from the NetBackup master server for tape mounts and optical mounts, and it tracks the physical condition and location of all the media.
Got a membership in the spyware community
One of the most significant factors in determining the behavior of theWindows Defender tool revolves around your decision of whether to join the SpyNet community, and therefore merits a bit of further discussion here. Fortunately, there isn’t much to discuss. As you just learned, Windows Defender suggests membership in the SpyNet community during setup time (when you first launch the application).Youwill be facedwith deciding between two levels of this SpyNet membership:
Selecting a web hosting company for a WordPress blog
Web hosting is the ability to move a business or information, product content, research to Internet. Actually, web hosting service is an Internet hosting service that permits an individual or an organization to provide their websites accessible via World Wide Web. Web hosts are those firms or organizations that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center.
These also furnish data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called collocation or a service that allows you to put your website (domain name) on the internet. After you have thought of a name for your website and registered the domain name, the next step is to find a web hosting service from a web hosting provider.
Capacity planning and what this involves
Capacity planning is a very similar but easier exercise, since I have most of the information already in my hands. Using the information gathered during your interview of the data owners, you should be able to extrapolate an estimation of how fast the data will grow. Most database administrators that I have talked to have a very good idea of the percentage of growth within their databases.
Organizing my images with Picasa
Picasa is a free, downloadable software package offered by Google. While still in its developmental phase, Picasa nonetheless offers many powerful tools allowing you to organize, manipulate, and modify the images stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Because Picasa organizes your images chronologically regardless of their location, it becomes not only easier to compare the volume of images created from one month/ year to the next, which can be useful if you are in a business environment and need to inventory your images, but also to simply find files that you may not have remembered were there. Essentially, instead of having to go through your hard drive searching for stray images, you have only to install Picasa, and the work will be done for you.
A backticks-style system call to get the date
The foreach loop works on the list returned by the backticks-style system call that invokes a basic niscat report. Each line is split at space separators; only the first three elements are required from the line, and these are obtained by assignment to an lvalue list – ($name, $alias, $ip) = split / /. The name string must again be split, at ‘.’ separators, to extract machine name and department name. Finally, these data are inserted into the data structure (note the ‘double hash indexing’ for the hash of hashes): $machines{$dept}{$machine} = $ip.
The example program has a forever loop
The first argument for opendir is a ‘directory handle’, this gets set by the opendir function; the second argument is the pathname for the directory.
Users vary in how they name directories; most just give the directory name, but some have the habit of adding a trailing ‘/’; in order to standardize prior to later steps, any trailing ‘/’ character is removed in the pattern substitution step – $directory =~ s#/$##.
How to configure a network connectivity
You don’t need me to tell you how important networking is to the Vista environment. As much as security threats enter your computer (potentially) from the outside world, one way that these threats are combated, somewhat ironically, is to establish a connection to the Internet so that software updates such asWindows Vista hotfixes and antivirus programdefinitions can always be brought up to date. This thread is all about networking.
User Account Control Behavior…
With the User Account Control technology acting as a sentry, two security related benefits are immediately realized:
- Malware cannot install silently in the background while a user is unaware. UAC doesn’t prevent malware from installing, mind you; it just stops the installation in its tracks before an administrator gives it the go ahead. What’s more, this safeguard is directly related to the second main benefit.
- UAC requires either credentials or confirmation before performing any act that will affect all users of the computer. Individual users can still make changes to their own user environments because that won’t affect the computer as a whole. But more sweeping changes such as accidentally disabling a driver (or installing a piece of malware) will be prevented by UAC until administrator approval is given.