Technology Club
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Review of GFI Vipre Antivirus Business
Enterprise security is hard to achieve without the proper tools. While certainly there is no shortage of anti-malware products for the enterprise, picking a really good one isn’t that easy. If you are looking for a good enterprise antimalware product, GFI Vipre Antivirus Business might be exactly what you need. A New Approach to Anti…
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Protect Your Network with GFI LANguard
Securing a network isn’t fun but if you fail to do it, the outcome could be disastrous. For small and midsized enterprises, the challenges can be really significant because you have a relatively large number of machines to monitor and you don’t have the lavish budget of large companies. Still, there are many affordable tools…
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Linux
The boot sequence under Linux is very different from the boot sequence under Windows. Besides, under Linux there are two boot loaders – GRUB (GNU GRand Unified Bootloader) and LILO (LInux LOader). LILO is the older boot loader but it is still used by some distros, while GRUB is newer and more and more distros…
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Turning the Machinery On
Briefly, the hardware part of the boot sequence can be described like that: The boot process starts with pressing the power button to turn the computer on. Then, after a short self-test of the power supply, a signal is sent to the processor and it starts executing the ROM BIOS code. Then the ROM BIOS…
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Booting Your Computer
Introduction Have you ever asked yourself how many steps does your computer perform from the moment you press the power switch to turn it on till the moment your favorite desktop wallpaper shines it its full glory in front of you? Well, there are many steps that the computer performs in order you to be…
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Tips and Tricks for a Simple Educational Screencast
One of the first issues that you need to consider when preparing your screencasts is what software you will use and what output file formats will be OK for you. As far as screencasting software is concerned, there is really a lot to choose from – starting from free packages (although they do not offer…
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Screencasting and Education
As seen from the classification above, two of the major uses of screencasting are directly related to education – tutorials and HOWTOs and instructional movies. Since a screencast is relatively simple to make and does not require significant resource and knowledge, it is not surprising that the Net is full with educational screencasts on most…
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Uses of Screencasting
You might still wonder what the practical benefits of screencasting are and where it can be used. The quick answer is that only your imagination is the limit for the uses of screencasting. The paragraphs above implied one of the many possible uses of screencasting – to create demo movies to answer frequent support issues.…
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The Use of Screencasts to Educate
Dealing with end-users or simply beginners is not always a pleasant and easy experience for tech jerks. I personally sometimes get irritated when I have to explain for a thousandth time a simple concept I have already clarified in layman’s terms a day or two ago. While I was working as Technical Support and I…