The time is 10:00 AM, and the network just went down -- and so did the IP phones. You're the IT manager and you're sweating bullets. The network bounces up again and the phones start to acquire an IP ...

Every time I lose power it is a struggle to get my home network going again. My pfsense system BIOS is set to remain off after a/c power loss because auto-on was worthless because my modem usually ...

At my job when we ghost all the computers we disconnect them from the network (ghosting slows down the network a bunch) and connect them to a small switch manualy (which is hooked up to the ghost ...

The Raspberry Pi is a great computer, even if it doesn’t have SATA. For those of us who have lost a few SD cards to the inevitable corruption that comes from not shutting a Pi down properly, here’s ...

In the last newsletter, we began a discussion of TCP/IP and its 25th anniversary. One of the major shifts that IP brought about, of course, was the move from connection-oriented to connectionless ...

Administrating large installations of computer desktops requires many tedious system reparations due to software updates, hardware fixes, user mistakes and viruses. To reduce costs, some enterprises ...

SMPTE has announced it is introducing a pilot IP networking boot camp with two new courses and an upgrade of its existing course. Participants who compete all three courses and pass a final exam will ...