A communications network that transmits voice. Contrast with data network. See communications.
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- 'Rogue admin' thought he was protecting network and city
- Paul Venezia at PC World has an exclusive insider account on Terry Childs, the rogue network admin who locked everyone out of the city's network. The story in essence is Childs is an extreme control freak who built and maintained an extremely complex network, perhaps...
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- My mother and I chat a lot about different alternative energy options, mainly because she is lucky enough to live in Hawaii where solar hot water has been mandated for future construction. But one thing that has been ultra controversial on the Big Island has been wind power for the...
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninjaLiberties"Mr. Future President, while you’re at it, could you also do something about all of the civil liberties we’re losing because of the ‘war on terrorism’? That’d be great. Thanks!"that is the point of Cyber Czar - censor what...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!
- Windows "Workstation" 2008 better than Vista? OK then, show me the money!dre` typo, i think"...nothing I would lie better than to..."It's the cost, Adrianlook at the difference in price.if i paid that much for a "desktop" OS, you can bet that I'd convince myself it was faster ;)The other thing...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Updated: Yahoo's argument that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is a short-timer with no clear plan to run the company has won over a key investor: Legg Mason. In addition, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is taking the company's campaign to its home page. In a broadcast to employees...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictionsProxies"By using a proxy, you can bypass any filtering software on the network"Only if they're incompetent. I work for a company that has hardware that a proxy wouldn't get around the rules, even if it's SSL.Your statement about proxies is wrong.If the university simply sets a...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Untrustworthy students: lighten your restrictions
- You know the drill. You spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars on higher education at your college or university of choice. But when you go to use your Internet connection or a public computer on campus, you login and it's locked down so tight, you can barely...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
- Property Minutes spent % of time spent on social networks Minutes per Visitor French Internet Audience 46,532 N/A 1,518 Social Networking 2,708 100.0 163 Skyrock Network 1,987 73.4 173 Facebook.com 335 12.4 106 MySpace.com 94 3.5 31 Netlog.com...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Top social networking sites in France in April 2008
- Property Apr-2007 Apr-2008 % Change Total French Internet Audience 25,388 30,649 21% Social Networking 12,244 16,601 36% Skyrock Network 8,562 11,504 34% Facebook.com 106 3,161 2,877% MySpace.com 2,068 3,006 45% Tromibi.com 775 1,299 68% Hi5.com 1,311...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Yahoo may revisit News Corp if AOL dims: source
- Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because Yahoo could instead renew talks over News Corp's Web properties. NEW YORK--Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because if Microsoft gets in the way, Yahoo could instead renew...
- News items 2008-07-18
- Tough love: Linux needs more haters
- Tough love: Linux needs more hatersGood article, JeremyI'm currently setting up our company network on Linux and will likely be bumping into some of those Samba issues. Complicated by having a mixed OS environment on the client side. Yeah, that's going to be fun. Nice that Google...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-18
- News to know: Google, Microsoft; AMD; Cybercrime arrest
- Notable headlines: Earnings wrap: Larry Dignan: Can Dirk Meyer save AMD? News.com: AMD's Ruiz steps off the roller coaster Google earnings fall short; says it can thrive in down economy. Techmeme Sam Diaz: IBM: Big Blue beats expectations Microsoft: $60 billion...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Qplayer (exe)
- Qplayer from Qbox is an ultra-light download and unobtrusive desktop player that provides on-demand access to over 21 million songs from MySpace, YouTube, and Bebo - with more supported sites to come. Qplayer is essentially an online remote control for all the social network music now available for free streaming....
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
- Crypto Manager (exe)
- The Crypto Manager program is intended for fast encrypting of any users files. For this purpose, RC4, a high-speed on-the-fly algorithm of encrypting, is used in the program. The program allows to encrypt any taken file and to pass it safely to the other person, using the common ways (portable...
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
- Techie's green pet: IDC develops new report card for tech asset recyclers
- Does your IT services company make the grade when it comes to retiring and disposing of technology assets in the greenest way possible? Researcher IDC has come up with a new certification and weighting system for IT assess disposal functions that it is calling the Green Recycling...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router
- Editor's note: Although our First Look video states that the WRT610N costs only $149, the street price may prove higher.The Linksys WRT610N Simultaneous Dual-N Band Wireless Router is the first true dual-band wireless router we've reviewed, and one of only a few on the market. In our tests, it easily...
- Product reviews 2008-07-17
- Open source should support Apple over Psystar
- Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bail
- Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m baildarn!I'd like to copyright some of my network admin work too! some of it is a classic that competes with Mozart's best work, while there have been another moments more, um, sex-pistols-like.RE: Rogue network admin still in jail on $5m bailwow!COPYRIGHT??? ...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
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