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Interface Standard Speed Notes IDE/ATA 2.1 MBps – 8.3 MBps 528 MB limit PIO modes 0-2 ATA-2/Fast ATA 16.6 MBps > 528 MB, 4 IDE devices PIO modes 3-4 DMA 1-2 ATA-3 Nominal speed increase SMART ATAPI-4, Ultra ATA, Fast ATA-2, Ultra DMA Modes 0-2, DMA/33 33 MBps Introduced DMA modes and 80-conductor cable ATAPI-5, Ultra ATA/66, Ultra DMA/66 66.6 […]
Read moreAttrib Displays, sets, or removes the read-only, archive, system, and hidden attributes assigned to files or directories. Used without parameters, attrib displays attributes of all files in the current directory. Syntax attrib [{+r | -r}] [{+a | -a}] [{+s | -s}] [{+h | -h}] [[Drive:][Path] FileName] [/s[/d]] Parameters +r Sets the read-only file attribute. -r Clears the read-only file attribute. […]
Read moreCable Type Common Name Physical Layer Name Speed Max Length (M) RG-6 Satellite TV N/A N/A RG-8 Thicknet 10Base5 10 Mbps 50 (drop) 500 (backbone) RG-58 Thinnet 10Base2 10 Mbps 185 RG-59 Cable TV N/A N/A CAT3 UTP Fast Ethernet 10 Base-T 10/100 Mbps 100 CAT4 UTP Fast Ethernet 10 Base-T 16 Mbps 100 CAT5 Fast Ethernet 10 Base-T 100 […]
Read moreBus Type Bus Width (Bits) Bus Speed (MHz) Data Cycles Per Clock Bandwidth (MBps) PCI 32 33 1 133 PCI 66 MHz 32 66 1 266 PCI 64-bit 64 33 1 266 PCI 66 MHz/64-bit 64 66 1 533 PCI-X 66 64 66 1 533 PCI-X 133 64 133 1 1066 PCI-X 266 64 266 1 2133 PCI-X 533 64 […]
Read moreAddress Class Network ID Default SN Mask # Networks # Hosts Class A 1-126.0.0.0 (0) 255.0.0.0 126 16,777,214 Class B 128-191.0.0.0 (10) 255.255.0.0 16,384 65,534 Class C 192-223.0.0.0 (110) 255.255.255.0 2,097,152 254 Class A Loopback Address: 127.0.0.0 Private IP Addresses Class A 10.0.0.1 – 10.255.255.254 Class B 172.16.0.1 – 172.31.255.254 Class C 192.168.0.1 – 192.168.255.254
Read moreWindows 9x AUTOEXEC.BAT Plain text file. Batch file that executes command prompt instructions. Configures command prompt environment and loads TSRs. COMMAND.COM Command interpreter. Provides user interface to command prompt & processes keyboard commands. Contains other internal commands such as CD, COPY, VER, DIR. CONFIG.SYS Plain text file. Activates memory areas and loads real-mode device drivers using “DEVICE=” (Always use full […]
Read moreHere’s the fix for slowness opening Excel 2003 files over the network. A customer recently complained that opening Excel 2003 files over the network drive was very slow and seemed to cause Excel to hang. If you took that same Excel file from the network drive and copied it to the local computer drive the slowness went away. A search […]
Read moreError messages: Not enough server storage is available to process this command. Not enough memory to complete transaction. Close some applications and retry. These error messages on a computer, which we will call computer A, can indicate the IRPStackSize bug on the other machine, the server that has the share, which we will call computer B. Go to that other […]
Read morePlan your Windows Server 2008 install in two phases. Think of the first phase as a simple, plain install of a Microsoft member server. Think of the second phase as tuning that member server for a specific role, for example, Domain Controller, Terminal Server or a File and Print server. Installation of Windows Server 2008 Phase One Microsoft products have […]
Read moreServer Core is a new concept for installing the the Windows Server 2008 operating system. Since there is no GUI, you have to work from the keyboard because that is all you have! This is a good time for learning command line utilities such as Netsh, Netdom and Ocsetup. Rationale Behind Server Core The whole rationale of the Server Core […]
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