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UC Berkeley Picks Google Over Microsoft In Battle Over Campus Cloud Services

Originally posted on TechCrunch, here.

Must check this also: a nice detailed comparison of Google and Microsoft’s offerings

When you’ve got a campus with 70,000 students and staff on it, all requiring some form of integrated cloud service, be it for email, scheduling, documents, or what have you, the decision-making process over which service to . . . → Read More: UC Berkeley Picks Google Over Microsoft In Battle Over Campus Cloud Services

Techsnail / WBITT forums are being shutdown permanently

Salam to all,

A year (or so) ago, we decided to put up a site for questions and answers. I thought that this will be a self sustained website, where users (with expertise of various levels) will help each other in solving problems. However, over the past year what I have noticed is that less . . . → Read More: Techsnail / WBITT forums are being shutdown permanently

Your Facebook profile can get you fired

Below is what I believe a must read for everyone having an account on any of the social media sites.

http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/your-facebook-profile-could-get-you-the-sack-20111219.html

 

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[Urdu] Guidelines which we MUST adopt as a policy for ourselves

Guidelines which we MUST adopt for ourselves (Urdu)

 

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Protecting your IT infrastructure from your own Wireless Access Point

(Originally published on http://wbitt.com, here.)

The advent of Wireless devices has caused a huge increase of the size of any given network. The ease of use, and less dependence on wire are few of the many advantages, that the Wireless technology bring in. However, this technology must be used carefully.

Many organizations are using Wireless . . . → Read More: Protecting your IT infrastructure from your own Wireless Access Point

Smoothwall – A perfect SOHO Router / Firewall

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SmoothWall Express 3.0 is an open source GNU/Linux firewall which is security-hardened and freely downloadable. By design, it has minimal hardware requirements and a small footprint. It should work with nearly any Pentium class computer with at least 128MB of RAM and a hard disk with a capacity of 2GB or greater. It’ll . . . → Read More: Smoothwall – A perfect SOHO Router / Firewall

Introduction to Mikrotik

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Welcome to Mikrotik World

Before, dive into Mikrotik world,  I want to introduce Mikrotik

What is Mikroik

Ans: MikroTik RouterOS™ is a router operating system and software which turns a regular Intel PC or MikroTik RouterBOARD™ hardware into a dedicated router.

About Comapny

MikroTik is a Latvian company which was founded in 1995 to develop . . . → Read More: Introduction to Mikrotik

How to install Mikrotik in Virtual Environment

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In this post, I will discuss how to install Mikrotik

You can install Mikrotik on regular PC but a dedicated Mikrotik RouterBoards are available to install

You can get verious RouterBoards on the official website

http://www.routerboard.com/

So, before install Mikrotik on Real hardware, I want to explore on Virtual environment. I will use VirtualBox but . . . → Read More: How to install Mikrotik in Virtual Environment

Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and designer of the C programming language, has died …

Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and designer of the C programming language, has died, on October 12, 2011, at the age of 70. The cause and exact time of death have not been disclosed. He had been in frail health for several years following treatment for prostate cancer and heart disease.

My tribute to a great legend, . . . → Read More: Dennis Ritchie, co-creator of Unix and designer of the C programming language, has died …

Wireless not working? Try installing kmod-wl . . .

If you see a missing firmware message on your shiny new Fedora installation, for your (broadcom) wireless card, what you can do is install kmod-wl package, from the rpmfusion-nonfree repository. When you install it, it pulls the necessary firmware required for the type of wireless card you have on your lap/desk-top.

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