A backup server under the control of a NetBackup master server is called a media server, which is any NetBackup server having management control over physical storage devices, such as tapes, tape drives, optical drives, robotic control, and robotic management. The media server will respond to requests from the NetBackup master server for tape mounts and optical mounts, and it tracks the physical condition and location of all the media. (more…)
April 30, 2008
April 29, 2008
Got a membership in the spyware community
One of the most significant factors in determining the behavior of theWindows Defender tool revolves around your decision of whether to join the SpyNet community, and therefore merits a bit of further discussion here. Fortunately, there isn’t much to discuss. As you just learned, Windows Defender suggests membership in the SpyNet community during setup time (when you first launch the application).Youwill be facedwith deciding between two levels of this SpyNet membership:
April 28, 2008
Selecting a web hosting company for a Wordpress blog
Web hosting is the ability to move a business or information, product content, research to Internet. Actually, web hosting service is an Internet hosting service that permits an individual or an organization to provide their websites accessible via World Wide Web. Web hosts are those firms or organizations that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center.
These also furnish data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called collocation or a service that allows you to put your website (domain name) on the internet. After you have thought of a name for your website and registered the domain name, the next step is to find a web hosting service from a web hosting provider.
April 27, 2008
Capacity planning and what this involves
Capacity planning is a very similar but easier exercise, since I have most of the information already in my hands. Using the information gathered during your interview of the data owners, you should be able to extrapolate an estimation of how fast the data will grow. Most database administrators that I have talked to have a very good idea of the percentage of growth within their databases. (more…)
April 26, 2008
Organizing my images with Picasa
Picasa is a free, downloadable software package offered by Google. While still in its developmental phase, Picasa nonetheless offers many powerful tools allowing you to organize, manipulate, and modify the images stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Because Picasa organizes your images chronologically regardless of their location, it becomes not only easier to compare the volume of images created from one month/ year to the next, which can be useful if you are in a business environment and need to inventory your images, but also to simply find files that you may not have remembered were there. Essentially, instead of having to go through your hard drive searching for stray images, you have only to install Picasa, and the work will be done for you.