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- PCI Express brings a new bus standard to workstations and servers
- The more things change, the more things stay the same. Whenit came to adding cards to a system, first came the Industry StandardArchitecture ISA expansion bus, followed by the expanded ISA bus EISA,which was supplanted by the Peripheral Component Interconnect bus. The battlefor the successor to PCI has been going...
- Tags: AGP, James McPherson, PCI, PCI Express, PCI/PCI-X, server, workstation
- Technical articles 2004-10-27
- Several network configuration options available to netadmin deploying wireless systems
- There are almost an infinite number of ways you can configureyour wireless network, depending on how many components you can lay your handson, but the following are the most likely variants. Public campusWireless bridgeSOHO networkInternal wireless networkInternal wireless network secured by VPNPublic hot spot attached to a private LANI'll take...
- Tags: access point, James McPherson, network, network configuration, wireless, Wireless Bridge
- Technical articles 2004-08-24
- How wireless works--the magic of radio
- Wireless networks depend onradio waves, the result of the weird and wonderous magic of electromagnetism.Radio waves are magnetic fields caused by electrical currents; every electricalcurrent creates a magnetic field of some fashion. If you've ever seen a monitoror TV flicker when a fan or vacuum cleaner was moved nearby, you've...
- Tags: James McPherson, radio, wireless
- Technical articles 2004-08-20
- The tale of the tape: 802.11g vs. 802.11b
- Wireless networking has been working its way into themainstream corporate environment for several years. A variety of technologieshave been tried out by the market, with several being kicked to the curb. (Doesanybody remember HomeRF?) To date, the three technologies still in productionare 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g. While 802.11a is slowly...
- Tags: indoor, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11g, James McPherson, wireless networking
- Technical articles 2004-08-19
- Build a robust Windows boot disk for free with BartPE
- This article has been reprinted from TechProGuild. If you find this article helpful, subscribe to TechProGuild to get access to all of our in-depth technical articles. Sign up now for a FREE 30-day trial. All the articles on our site that include a green $ icon are available only to...
- Tags: BartPE, Microsoft Windows, BartPE Builder, James McPherson, boot-disk
- Technical articles 2004-05-27
- Get around the SOHO faster with the IOGEAR Wireless-G Gateway
- Wireless networks are now de rigueur within the corporate landscape. However, the shared 11-Mbps theoretical bandwidth of 802.11b has become rather cramped among all the PDAs, notebooks, and wireless PCs. So, the next logical step is the upgrade path: Send in the inexpensive 54-Mbps 802.11g gateways. IOGEAR's entry into this...
- Tags: adapter, bandwidth, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11g, IOGEAR Wireless-G Gateway, James McPherson, network, quick start guide, SOHO, start guide, wireless
- Technical articles 2004-03-25
- Build a robust Windows boot disk for free with BartPE
- There are a number of freeware recovery CDs and boot disks available, but there's one difference between most of them and Bart's Preinstalled Environment BartPE, and that's the fact that BartPE is based on a native Windows environment. It also enables you to customize it so that you can add...
- Tags: BartPE, Microsoft Windows, Bart, BartPE Builder, James McPherson, boot-disk
- Technical articles 2004-02-25
- Proven pointers for troubleshooting USB connections
- USB devices are notorious for driver conflicts. Throw in additional Plug and Play functionality, and troubleshooting becomes a whole different ballgame. To help you cope, James McPherson explains how to fix some common USB trouble areas.Support and help desk professionals are used to fixing IRQ, DMA, and memory address conflicts,...
- Tags: James McPherson, USB
- Technical articles 2002-11-26
- Perform painless backups with Veritas Backup Exec
- Problems with typical archiving software make a necessary job more difficult than it should be, but Veritas' widely distributed Backup Exec makes archiving a snap. James McPherson describes some of the features of this powerful program.Archives are at the heart of all disaster recovery operations. Restoring files and rolling back...
- Tags: Storage management, Backups, Storage, James McPherson, VERITAS Backup Exec, VERITAS Software Corp., backup, server
- Technical articles 2002-11-05
- Overclocking guide for Intel Celeron and P4 processors
- Why overclock a processor? To get more use out of old and obsolete equipment, for one reason. James McPherson drills down on why you'd want to overclock a CPU, and how to do it for the Intel Celeron and P4 processors.Why overclock an Intel PC? The hard-core tech addict answers...
- Tags: Processors, James McPherson, Processor Speed, processor, Front Side Bus, CPU, Intel Celeron, Intel Corp., overclocking, motherboard, Intel Pentium
- Technical articles 2002-10-22
- What to expect from the new bus standards
- Keeping up with changing bus technologies is an ongoing job--they change quickly. This article examines a few new and up-and-coming standards that may make a difference in how we compute.A new device can increase its data transfer speed only so much before it becomes bottlenecked by the bus interface. Some...
- Tags: device-management specification, James McPherson, Serial ATA
- Technical articles 2002-09-24
- Archive SOHO data with Backup MyPC (BUMP)
- Small-office users depend on reliable data backups just as much as the larger user environments. Veritas has come up with a low-cost solution with its Backup MyPC archival software. James McPherson describes how it works.As all network administrators know, the amount of drive space users require is roughly equivalent to...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Backups, Storage management, Storage, SOHO, James McPherson, software, VERITAS Backup Exec, backup
- Technical articles 2002-07-24
- Breaking the barriers of hard drive limitations
- What does the future hold for disk drive storage capacity technology? In this Daily Feature, James McPherson teaches a history lesson on how drive capacity has evolved and where he thinks it might be going.When I started in computing, I had to build a tape drive to provide around 120...
- Tags: Storage, barrier, James McPherson, BIOS, ATA, hard drive
- Technical articles 2002-07-18
- What to expect from the new bus standards
- What does the future hold for supporting new bus technologies? James McPherson examines a few he feels should make a difference in how we compute.A new device can increase its data transfer speed only so much before it becomes bottlenecked by the bus interface. Some devices are phased out slowly,...
- Tags: James McPherson, device-management specification, Serial ATA, Mb/s
- Technical articles 2002-07-16
- Examine Open Office's interoperability with Microsoft Office
- Open Office is the open source version of Sun's Star Office and the basis for other open source office suites like SOT Office. Open Office has the advantage of being one of the few office suites that can run on Windows (9x/ME/NT/2000/XP), Linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X. Furthermore, Open...
- Tags: James McPherson, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, SOT Office
- Technical articles 2003-10-20
- Flashy IOGEAR Memory Bank flash card reader revs up file transfer rates
- CompactFlash cards help many users store large amounts of data on PDAs and other portable devices. The problem is getting that data transferred to a PC quickly. James McPherson reviews a new IOGEAR device that promises to up the transfer rate sevenfold.Compact memory formats are the direct result of the...
- Tags: Memory, bank, James McPherson, Memory Bank, USB
- Technical articles 2002-06-06
- Eliminate unwanted changes to PCs with HDD Sheriff
- IT pros cringe when users make changes to their PCs, as those changes can sometimes lead to a crash. James McPherson shows how HDD Sheriff can help you get a system back to its original state with a simple reboot.Every IT department has computers they wished were inviolate. Maybe it...
- Tags: PCI, James McPherson, PC, software setup, hard drive, floppy disk, computer
- Technical articles 2002-05-16
- Three ways temperature can wreak havoc with your system
- The laws of thermodynamics spell out the fate of your computer. Waste energy manifests itself as heat, the random movement of molecules. Some random events are a bit more extreme than others and result in the microscopic circuits separating or burning through. At that point your computer becomes little more...
- Tags: Core temperature, core temperature, James McPherson, processor
- Technical articles 2003-08-11
- The battle for control: Evergreen's USB 2.0/IEEE 1394 PCI Combo controller challenge
- Does getting two speedy bus technologies on one controller card sound too good to be true? Find out how Evergreen Technologies' recently revealed Combo controller stacked up against alternative USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 solutions.In the past, external storage for the enterprise never seemed to be fast enough, large enough,...
- Tags: FireWire, James McPherson, IEEE 1394, USB, USB 2.0, Evergreen Technologies, iLink
- Technical articles 2002-03-12
- Linux DA compares to other PDAs but needs work
- Empower Technologies' Linux DA PowerPlay III is on par with other Palm III equivalents like the Palm m100 and Handspring Visor Deluxe. But despite its reasonable price, Linux enthusiasts and PDA shoppers might want to wait until the next upgrade.Buying a device because it runs Linux, or any OS, is...
- Tags: PDAs, Handhelds, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux DA, James McPherson, Palm Inc., PowerPlay, Empower Technologies, Linux, PDA
- Technical articles 2002-03-07
