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Enhancing Server Security With Preemptive IP Banning.
If you have not given much thought about network security before, that will likely change as soon as you set up a server, especially one that is exposed to the internet. You will likely find that within minutes of opening up the ports to the…
Are Today’s PCs Too Fast?
Perhaps the real question is “should Intel and system manufactures be selling far more of the lower-end Celeron and Pentium products than they do?” Are most consumers spending a few hundred to a thousand dollars more than they need to? Are they opting to replace…
How To Buy A New PC or Mac For AutoCAD
Computer Aided Design applications are used in a variety of fields for design and engineering including architecture such as buildings and bridges, plumbing systems, schematic diagrams, computer chips, mechanical components, process plant facilities, and many others. This software is typically used by designers, drafters, architects…
How To Buy A New PC or Mac for Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom has become an industry standard post-processing application for photographers. Lightroom allows photographers to import RAW images, organize, manipulate, and export them for digital publishing or printing – all in one powerful application. There are many factors that can affect the performance of a…
How To Buy A New PC or Mac For Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a pixel-level digital imaging editor, and is the industry standard in pixel-level (also called raster graphics) editing and digital art as a whole. This differs from Adobe Lightroom in that while Lightroom stores changes to an image as instructions in a database…
Linux: New Life For An Old Mac?
This article is part of what will be a multipart series on setting up, configuring, and using Linux. I was recently gifted an old Core 2 Duo iMac – an iMac 7,1 that was sold between August 2007 and May 2008. While OS X 10.7…
Understanding Intel’s Processor Generations
Intel has moved from the “Tic-Tock”* architecture production model cycle to the “Process – Architecture – Optimization” cycle. In this model, process refers to the die size fabrication process (scaled in nanometers). Intel’s current fabrication size is 14nm, since the introduction of the 5th Generation…