A Wii, which Nintendo produces and distributes, is a wireless motion sensing gaming console that allows users to play games by moving their remote and bodies. A Wii responds to the user’s movements by using the remote’s built-in accelerometer to detect changes in motion and direction and displaying the appropriate results on a television. While Wii was once only used to play electronic sports and dancing games, it is now available for popular games such as Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, and Call of Duty.   What is Modding? Modding Read More

Socket-939 is a 939-contact CPU socket which is used by AMD CPU's, such as the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX. Socket-939 supports a 200MHz system clock and a 1000Mhz HyperTransport link. The Socket-939 is a Pin Grid Array (PGA) Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket. A ZIF socket features a lever on one side of the socket. When this lever is pulled up, the spring contacts inside the socket are opened. This allows the CPU to be inserted easily into the socket. The lever is then pushed down, closing the Read More

An Overview on Remote Server Management In enterprises that need a secure environment; servers and desktops are usually managed remotely. Administration is hardly performed by logging on to the local console. Remote management or administration is not a new notion, and is used largely to manage servers and desktops. Windows Server 2003 includes a few technologies which can be used for the administration of remote client computers, and to remotely manage servers. These include: Microsoft Management Console snap-ins can be used to connect to a remote system and manage the Read More

ASCII Chart DEC HEX Char Name Control Character 0 00 NUL null Control-@ 1 01 SOH start of heading Control-A 2 02 STX start of text Control-B 3 03 ETX end of text Control-C 4 04 EOT end of xmit Control-D 5 05 ENQ enquiry Control-E 6 06 ACK acknowledge Control-F 7 07 BEL bell Control-G 8 08 BS backspace Control-H 9 09 HT horizontal tab Control-I 10 0A LF line feed Control-J 11 0B VT vertical tab Control-K 12 0C FF form feed Control-L 13 0D CR carriage feed Read More

An iPad is a tablet PC that Apple produced, which allows users to browse the web, access email, and run applications while traveling. iPads are larger than smartphones, but smaller than laptops and extremely portable and lightweight. iPads are based on touch screen technology and include support for WiFi, Bluetooth, and 3G. iPads are not built with a USB port or other external memory port, but may include one or more built-in cameras.   When was the iPad Released? The original WiFi-only iPad model was released in the United States Read More

A network card is an expansion card that installs into a computer and enables that computer to physically connect to a local area network. The most common form of network card in current use is the Ethernet card. Other types of network cards include wireless network cards and Token Ring network cards. Ethernet network cards most often use RJ-45 jacks. Wireless network cards usually have no external connections other than a possible antenna jack. Other terms for network card include network adapter, network interface card, and NIC. Network Card Interfaces Read More

A static route is one that a network administrator creates manually. The opposite of a static route is a dynamic route. Dynamic routes are created by routing protocols. Static routes have advantages and disadvantages when compared to dynamic routes. Advantages of Static Routes: Easy to configure No routing protocol overhead Disadvantages of Static Routes: Network changes require manual reconfiguration Network outages cannot be automatically routed around Creating a Static Route under Unix Under Unix, static routes can be created using the `route` command. The example shows the creation of a Read More

MSN Messenger Plus is an extension to Windows Live Messenger. MSN Messenger Plus Features Tabbed Chats – MSN Messenger Plus allows use of Tabs (similarly to Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2) to convert an overloaded studio to a single window; you can enable tabs for certain conversations and categorize the rest normally too. QuickTexts – QuickTexts is a feature in MSN Messenger Plus that will allow you to use text shortcuts in order to string a larger phrase of text; for example: if you were to type "Hi," Read More

Dish Network, and their previously separated partner, EchoStar, have launched dozens of satellites over the past decade in order to provide direct broadcast satellite television services to their subscribers. While each satellite location, known as an “orbital location” provides services to a different region of the Earth, many of the orbital locations contain multiple satellites to increase available bandwidth and provide redundancy to cover any inoperable satellites in the area. Likewise, satellites in one orbital location can still provide service to satellite receivers in an area designated to a nearby Read More

LCD projectors work by using three liquid crystal panels, a lamp, a prism, and filters to create the image on the screen. The lamp provides white light that passes through a polarizing filter. Polarizing works by accepting light that is traveling on the same plane. All other light will be blocked. From the polarizing filter the light is then passed through a series of dichroic mirrors. Dichroic mirrors work by only allowing certain colors in the light spectrum to be reflected, while others pass through. The dichroic mirrors in LCD Read More