network
What Cisco Doesn’t Want You to Know – ADTRAN’s Router Performance Results
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Gillette. All opinions are 100% mine. I had the opportunity to speak with the Director of Marketing for ADTRAN over the weekend. If you’ve not heard of them, you definitely [...]
Find New Friends with Invisible Note
For those of you who may not already have enough friends and connections, DreamHost has come up with a new way of meeting people: Invisible Note. If you’re lonely and looking for a completely random person to connect with, this may be the service for you. There’s no stress that comes along with meeting face-to-face, [...]
Find People to Follow on Twitter
Twitter is rolling out a new feature today called “Suggestions for You.” The aim is simple: to help you find and connect with more people who share your interests. The algorithms being used will suggest people that you may find you have something in common with. The suggestions are based on several factors including those [...]
The Future of Ning Communities
A startling announcement came today from the Ning network. Only one month after appointing a new CEO, the company has major reorganization plans in the works. In addition to laying off approximately 40% of its staff, the company is killing off all free accounts. Free account users will have the option to either change over [...]
Network Monitoring Software Review
While this blog post was sponsored by one of our community partners, SolarWinds, the opinions are 100% editorially-controlled. Comments are welcome. For years (according to him), Matt has been recommending one of the best network monitoring tools he’s ever reviewed: IPMonitor. Today, he’s helped me by sharing his personal top reasons as to why he [...]
How to Optimize Network Management
This post was sponsored by LANsurveyor. We’ve worked with the folks at SolarWinds many times in the past. They have excellent products to help you keep your network running in tip-top shape (as their own community will attest). LANsurveyor is used by network engineers worldwide to map their networks in mere minutes. According to SolarWinds [...]
What is Community?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Not long ago, I had the opportunity to speak at WordCamp. My topic was “Community is already there, inside everyone”. This is something that I am passionate about. Much of my life is devoted to my community, and to the communities [...]
How to Email Web Pages to Yourself
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Let’s say you want to go to a website to see what’s new. You may not be able to access the site, due to content filtering. If you sign up with this free service, you can receive emails containing the contents [...]
Who Are You on Twitter?
http://twitter.com/chrispirillo – I was quite surprised to fire up a Web browser and check out my “Twitter Grade” (which I’m sure doesn’t mean much in the grand scheme of things, but it’s still an interesting statistic to know – considering just how many people are using Twitter these days). Turns out, I’m in the Twitter [...]
Does Computer Crime Affect You?
This is Blake P’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily [...]
What is Synergy?
This is Frank’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit – your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my [...]
How to Meet Geeks
You can take advantage of this growing community by being an active part of it. After all, it’s yours! 1. On the front page of http://geeks.pirillo.com/ you’ll find a list of the day’s registered birthdays. It takes less than 20 seconds to stop by someone’s profile and wish them well. You don’t have to be [...]
How Do You Find Files From Across the Network?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I tried telling Wicket that everything would be fine, and that I had all the information at hand. He just wouldn’t listen to me. So, I showed him SearchLight. It allows me to access files from all across my network, including [...]
Troubleshooting User Network Performance Issues
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed We all have networks of some kind. No matter whether you have two computers or 2000 on your network, you’ll need tools to manage it. This is why I love talking to Josh Stephens from SolarWinds. In the recent past, Josh [...]
What Tools do you use for Your Mac Network?
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What is the Holy Grail, exactly? For everyone, it’s something different. As a Geek, what is your Holy Grail? Mine is finding great software and neat tools or apps to pass along to all of you. In my travels, I’ve found [...]
