2007 November

Functional levels determine the features that are available and the domain controllers that are supported. In a previous article, you learned about the three domain functional levels that are supported under Windows Server 2008. There are also functional levels at the forest level.
Windows Server 2008 supports the following three forest functional levels:

Windows 2000 [...]

Gnomie Aaron Glenn (oboe in the chat room) writes:
Hi Chris,
I’ve been running the Folding@Home software for about three weeks now, and while the altruistic donation of my “spare” CPU cycles towards the advancement of biomedical research seemed very appealing, the effect it had on my power bill is another story…
Suffice it say that it went [...]

What is the driving force behind your household’s adoption of whichever OS you use? What do you like about it?
I ask this as I sit here working on my Ubuntu notebook. See, at my house we use OS X along with a ton of Linux distributions. My wife is really not much of a Linux [...]

Bern Muller’s comments about the proper use of stereotyping are insightful, but need some further discussion to be totally correct. He distinguishes between well-defined group attributes and unknown individual attributes. Statistically men are significantly taller than women, but many women are taller than me. Similarly men on the average have larger lung capacities than women. [...]

I’ve met all of my clients through online resources and networking. I had one local client in the past who found me online and we never met face-to-face (f2f). However, I recently landed a client and we’ve already had one f2f meeting, but I don’t anticipate another as it was to discuss the business overview.
Thank [...]

The features available in a Windows Server 2008 domain depend on the functional level. Therefore, you can add additional features to a domain by raising the functional level. Windows Server 2008 supports three different domain functional levels. The three domain functional levels are:

Windows 2000

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008

Windows 2000
When you configure a new Windows [...]

After the Ubuntu based gOS desktop computers sold so well that they sold out from Wal-Mart’s inventory, there is one thing that was on everyone’s mind almost immediately - when will Everex, the company that made the magic happen between hardware and OS on the gOS side of things, release a notebook? What with the [...]

Today, Tims asks:
I have just wiped my 20G hard drive and reformatted using a program I bought from stopmau.com.
This was a boot up disk program on my CD ROM. Now I have XP up and running again but i can only see 5G of the 20? I have emailed this problem to stopmau who promised email [...]

Making Online and Offline Connections looks at how the virtual world changed how we connect to others. In it, I state that the online world made it possible for me to become a full-time freelancer. It got me thinking how I met people in this virtual world.
I met a few through blogs, especially in earlier [...]

Multiple domains form trees within a forest. A tree can be defined as a hierarchical arrangement of domains within a forest. A tree is established when a child domain is added to the hierarchy under an existing parent domain. When you add a new domain as a child domain, it inherits a portion [...]

Since I first started contributing here at Lockergnome, I have had reader after reader asking me what it takes to succeed in the computer repair (consulting) business. Besides myself, I am sure that Matt Wilkinson, one of my favorite IT Professionals contributors, who has maintained a successful repair biz himself, would have a number of [...]

Now that I’m working at home a lot more lately, I wanted to upgrade my phone system a little. I have a Motorola 5.8GHz two-line expandable cordless phone system that I’m relatively happy with — but when I saw this baby from Plantronics, I had to check it out.
You see — my office is down [...]

Starbucks originally served whole milk and didn’t offer other milk options until after receiving customer feedback rather than making the decision without customer influence due to dietary trends. Paul of Idea Sandbox patronized a local coffee shop that serves only whole milk and won’t change.
But that local coffee shop doesn’t have the disadvantage of having [...]

If you are familiar with Active Directory, you probably know that you can create multiple domains within a single forest. Multiple domains form trees within a forest. A tree can be defined as a hierarchical arrangement of domains within a forest.
A tree is established when a child domain is added to the hierarchy [...]

Clearly, Dell is not planning on fizzling out without one heck of a fight. I found this link on Computrout’s site today. It appears that Dell is looking to use “Star power” to your friends and family on purchasing you, a holiday product. It’s a clever idea, sort of like Fundable.org, but with Dell products, [...]

Marketing efforts should involve blogs as word of mouth (mouse) can spread fast when the right blog mentions a product or service and the right people read the blog. Bloggers tell it like it is, an advantage over traditional media. If a product or service is blogged by the right blogger with a large (or [...]

Before you can write a policy document, you should understand what a policy is. In simplistic terms, a policy is governing principle. For example, your Information Technology division may have a security policy mandating certain actions that must be implemented. People often confuse policies with procedures. A procedure is a series of steps that are [...]

Rather than opt for the expense of a laptop and the additional worry of losing or damaging it, Klaus Knopper, creator of Knoppix, made a bootable Linux CD distribution so he could take his favorite open source tools with him wherever he needed to work. CD in hand, he was able to go from computer [...]

A revelation hit me today when my Aunt called me with a question - she plugged in a new all-in-one printer and now the sound stopped working. To you, this seem completely unrelated. But in my eyes, it illustrates evidence of a larger problem. A complete lack of “basics training” for the typical computer user.
Not [...]

Today, Padmini asks:
I want to get and alert on my mobile when I get a new mail into my Gmail inbox. is that possible? if yes , how?
Thank you
This actually a fairly common question. Unfortunately, the device in question is important as it does vary greatly as to which way is the best for this [...]