TechRepublic Resources
- Explore the benefits and drawbacks of clustering SQL Server 2000
- It is advantageous to have a clustered SQL Server environment in terms of high availability; however, high availability does come with certain tradeoffs. Tim Chapman discusses the benefits and drawbacks of clustering in SQL Server 2000. A server cluster is a group of two or more physically separate...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Tim Chapman, Databases, Servers, Enterprise software, server cluster, clustering, benefit, server, failover, cluster, SQL Server Newsletter, Instance, Drawback, SAN, Node, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- Technical articles 2006-10-30
- Different ways to work with Web fonts
- The CSS2 Specification outlines numerous ways to size your fonts in Web applications. In this week's Web Development column, Tony Patton explores font sizing and discusses the best way to manipulate fonts in your application. When developing a Web application, nothing is more important than presentation. So, it...
- Tags: Web, CSS2 Specification, Tony Patton, font, Web Development Zone Newsletter, Drawback, Pixel, Web Application, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Exception, Value
- Technical articles 2006-10-02
- Start.com rates pretty high on my Lame-o-meter
- I'm a big fan of Google's Personalized Home Page even though I've never been that into personalized home pages before (except that I did have one on MSN back in the late 90's and I used it for about a year until I discovered Google). The nice thing about Google's new personalized page...
- Tags: Google Inc., MSN, Drawback, Start.com, Construction, Search, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2005-08-03
- When do you require remote disaster recovery options?
- At some point, you have to decide if local failover options are enough for your organization, or whether you need to add remote failover to protect you from a major disaster. Mike Talon discusses some of the considerations for making that decision. Failing over across a wide-area network is...
- Tags: Mike Talon, failover, disaster recovery, failover option, Disaster Recovery Newsletter, Drawback, Data Management
- Technical articles 2006-05-01
- Installing and using phpMyAdmin to manage MySQL databases
- Learn about the Web-based database management tool phpMyAdmin in this Linux tip. Management of MySQL databases can be fairly straightforward—with the right tools. Using the MySQL command-line client requires a fairly intimate knowledge of MySQL in particular, and the SQL language in general. Not only that, ...
- Tags: MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Databases, Vincent Danen, OPEN SOURCE, server, database, Linux Tips Newsletter, Installation, Drawback, Tool, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Technical articles 2005-12-22
- Create an audio stitching tool in PHP
- One way to provide visually impaired users with the ability to use OCR-defeating passcodes is to stitch WAV files together. Phillip Perkins shows you how to deconstruct a group of WAV files and reconstruct one large WAV file by compiling the group. One way to...
- Tags: PHP, WAV, NumChannels, SampleRate, Phillip Perkins, Scripting languages, Using PHP, tool, BitsPerSample/8, Web Development Zone Newsletter, Function, Parameter, Audio, Drawback, Data, Information, ChunkID, ChunkSize, Subchunk1ID, Subchunk1Size, AudioFormat, BlockAlign, BitsPerSample, Subchunk2ID, Subchunk2Size, FILESTRUCT, StitchFiles, $lFileSize, CalcLittleEndianValue, GetLittleEndianByteArray
- Technical articles 2005-08-09
- Learn the pros and cons of high-availability systems
- Take a look at high-availability systems, and see if they are right for your organization. In the grand scheme of business continuity planning, high-availability (HA) systems can play a small but vital role in resuming business activities in the event of smaller--but still critical--system...
- Tags: Mike Talon, Backups, failover, Disaster Recovery Newsletter, Drawback, Disaster Recovery, HA
- Technical articles 2005-06-17
- Disaster recovery options for legal firm file servers
- Mike Talon takes a look at disaster recovery options for file servers in legal firms. In the last column, I focused on the special requirements for protecting and backing up healthcare file servers. Continuing the theme of file server protection, I'm going to look at the specialized needs...
- Tags: Mike Talon, Disaster Recovery Newsletter, Drawback, Law Firm, Backup, Server, File Server, Bottom Line, Tool, File Servers, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Storage, Hardware
- Technical articles 2005-06-13
- New options for connectivity
- Solving connectivity problems can be tricky when a department in your organization relocates to a nearby building. Ramon Padilla makes the case for a wireless solution. Get acquainted with wireless bridging and its options in this article. Have you ever been faced with the situation in which an ...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Ramon Padilla Jr., Network technology, microwave, wireless, line of sight, beam, Government IT Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Drawback, WLAN, RF, Frame Relay, Networking
- Technical articles 2005-06-13
- Protecting Microsoft Exchange 2003 with backup tools
- This second part in a series on Exchange 2003 disaster recovery looks at the advantages and disadvantages of three common types of backups: offline, online, and mailbox-level. How well can your organization deal with an emergency? Automatically sign up for our free Disaster Recovery newsletter, delivered each Tuesday, and...
- Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Backups, Mike Talon, tool, backup, database, Disaster Recovery Newsletter, Drawback, Exchange
- Technical articles 2005-05-09
Additional Resources
- Does your shop need a spectrum analyzer?
- Nice for a cheap analyzer, but....One big drawback that jumped out at me is no 802.11A (5 GHz) support.-JD
- Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, jdavis@...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-02
- interest on checking
- Sterling Bank and Trust, all of whose branches are in or near SF, is paying 5% APY on checking. And when I deposit a cheque by mail I get a stamped envelope back for the next deposit. The only drawback is that the first time you use your ATM card...
- Tags: ATM, john.a.wills@...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-18
- MiniTones (prc)
- This small freeware app allows you to select a MP3 file and add it to your ringtone list in Sounds. It also features a file splitter so you can use a section of a song instead of the whole song. A drawback to this is that it copies the file...
- Tags: Freeware, Memory
- Software downloads 2007-05-08
- Scribus desktop publishing: The Right Tool for the Job?
- I have used Quark, Publisher, and Pagemaker to create pdf documents of varying levels. Each of those applications do a good job but they all have one drawback – cost. The open source Scribus application does almost everything the costlier alternatives do, but at zero cost. It's reliable, flexible, and...
- Tags: Desktop, Job, TechRepublic Inc., Adobe PDF, Tool, Recruitment & Selection, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jack Wallen, right tool, screenshots, open source, Scribus, desktop publishing
- Image galleries 2008-02-04
- Apple still quiet on game strategy
- Hardware still the biggest drawback...If Apple wants to get serious with gamers, they need to focus on hardware. Any company can brag about how cool they are, but a person intent on gaming is gonna look past that and at the actual hardware. Videocards are where Mac is lacking right...
- Tags: hardware, Muskokas Finest, apple, gamers, Apple Computer Inc., game, strategy
- Discussion threads 2007-02-16
- Creating a Web service with VB.NET
- .Net makes it surprisingly easy to make a Web serviceThe biggest drawback to how easy this is in .Net, is that it is easy to wrap code that was never designed for this in a Web service wrapper. Make sure to really evaluate your code for security and performance before...
- Tags: Channel management, Web services, .NET, Justin James, Web service, Web, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- Software for Linux
- I work with a system builder and would love not to fill Bill Gates' pockets. The biggest drawback I see for linux is commonly used software. Quickbooks for example. Users are comfortable with these products and do not wish to spend the resources to change. Thoughts Pleaselink to infoSite that...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, dbooneweaver@..., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2007-03-21
- Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Bluetooth
- Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) can take advantage of versatility, completeness, and low prices of standard wireless protocols. The fusion of data collected over a WSN is just an evident application of time synchronization. Bringing together these two issues, it is found that synchronization using standard protocols poses an important drawback....
- Tags: Network, Sensor, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Wireless
- White papers 2005-05-02
- Internet Operations Center Case Study: Pontiac Schools-Wireless Network
- Pontiac Schools needed to design a system to allow teachers to create/grade quizzes, pass out homework assignments and communicate with parents using a PDA. A major drawback to most programs is that each student must individually synchronize the PDA via infra-red "beaming" technology. With large numbers of students per classroom,...
- Tags: Network, Pontiac, Internet, PDAs, Handhelds, Hardware
- Case studies
- On the PAPR of Binary Reed-Muller OFDM Codes
- A major drawback of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system is that the OFDM signal exhibits a very high Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR). This paper presents a lower bound on the Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) for the second order cosets of binary Reed-Muller code by...
- Tags: OFDM, Wireless
- White papers
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