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Tuesday, 23 September 2008

  • Kodak introduces two wireless all-in-one printers

    Hot on the heels of new wireless multifunctions from Canon and Epson, Kodak has announced two printers that are also Wi-Fi enabled and will compete with those other units. At $199.99, the Kodak ESP 7 All-in-One Printer will be priced similarly to the Epson Artisan 700, while the $299.99 ESP 9 All-in-One Printer goes print-to-print with the Canon Pixma MP980 and the Epson Artisan 800.

    Kodak has tried to differentiate its recent forays into the printer market by offering low-cost ink cartridges—for example, replacing the ink in these ESP printers will cost just $9.99 for black and $14.99 for color. Unfortunately, a recent review points out that the previously released ESP 5 had some poor mechanical design choices that these printers will have to overcome, though print quality had improved over the ESP 3. In its favor, Kodak has added built-in duplexing to both of these units, with the ESP 9 also sporting an automatic document feeder and faxing capabilities.

    Of course, in addition to Wi-Fi, the Kodak printers offer an Ethernet port for wired network printing. What’s interesting is that the company hasn’t been pushing Wi-Fi into its digital cameras (save the older EasyShare-One), which seems like a natural synergy if it wants to stay in the printing game. In any event, the trend is clearly to add wireless networking to all-in-ones at the higher end of the price range; the only question is how soon it will be added to budget multifunctions and then more inkjet and personal laser printers.

    Source:blogs.zdnet.com

Friday, 29 August 2008

  • iYogi Announces Launch of Monitoring and Performance Tool For SMBs

    iYogi – a leading provider of technical support services with horizons in the US, UK, Canada and Australia – today announced the launch of its exclusive server monitoring tools for small businesses. The new product offers integrated technology solutions to surmount the users’ unique IT support requirements thereby enabling them to derive and share information, data, enable network performance analysis, and security trends critical to plan and mana ge their set of servers – 24x7.

    Uday Challu, iYogi’s CEO commented, “Holding a significant niche for itself in the computer support industry, iYogi has always known to be on the forefront of adapting breakthrough technology to exceed customer service expectations. This time we have developed a tool offering value-add functionality which will help small business customers maximize the business outcomes of IT.”

    iYogi’s monitoring tool provides real time observation and monitoring solutions to ensure more robust and reliable IT support and infrastructure for small buinesses. Small Business owners also get a comprehensive assesment of their IT environment to meet technology needs with the scalability for future growth and create preventative measures based on quick analysis of network device alerts, pre-failure indicators, performance benchmark and security issues.

    The new Monitoring and performance tool will provide small business with the opportunity to test all technical and non-technical aspects of their servers and help them to strengthen overall IT infrastructure. The array of services will include: Patch Management, Security Auditing, Site Inventory, Real Time Alerting Script Based Management, and Rights Management  Services for all critical server issues.

    “Irrespective of the business being small or large, when the consumer chooses iYogi, he leverages the potential of an elite taskforce of Microsoft Certified System Engineers and Cisco Certified Network Associates, ready to service their critical assets, using the most advanced network asset tracking and Performance monitoring”, adds Challu.

    Another factor where the Company aims to distinguish itself from its competitors is product pricing. Embracing the concept of service quality, iYogi offers competitively priced technical support services at no-haggle, low prices.

    As for its small business support, the Company has integrated its exclusive Monitoring and Alerting Services under one price umbrella of just $480 annually. per server i.e. $49.99 per month. The price is certainly hard to find anywhere else.

    For more information on iYogi Small Business Support, visit http://www.iyogibusiness.com/


Friday, 07 March 2008

  • Remote login

    Once you have logged in to the system, you can log in to other machines on the network or on other networks with the telnet and rlogin commands.

    telnet

    The format for the telnet command is:

    telnet <hostname>

    After connecting with the remote host, you will be prompted for your login id and your password just as if you were logging on via a terminal on that system.

    rlogin

    The command rlogin has the advantage over telnet in that you can specify a username on the command line, and can set it up so that when you rlogin to a host you will not be prompted for a password. Rlogin assumes you wish to login to an account with the same name as the account you are presently logged in as. If you wish to change this, use the -l option.

    To have a remote system not ask for your password, edit your  .rhosts file and put a line similar to the following in:

    remotehostname userid

    Where remotehostname is the name of the system you will be rlogin from, and userid is the name of the account you will be on.

    The format for the rlogin command is:

    rlogin <hostname>

    To temporarily suspend the connection to the remote host is done by entering the sequence:

    \( \sim <ctrl-z\gt \)

    This returns you to the local host. To bring the remote host's job back into the foreground, use the fg command as described earlier.

    source: http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~www-adm/docs/unixdoc/node67.html



Wednesday, 27 February 2008

  • The Expanding Reach of Remote Support

    Standard remote control for desktops running Windows has been around for more than a decade, and while MS Windows continues to own the lion's share of the market there are other platforms to consider.

    • Apple Macintosh. While only at 6-8% of the PC market, there are concentrations of Mac users: college students, marketing, desktop publishing are good examples. In fact, Princeton University says that 41% of students and faculty had Macs in 2007, up from 31% in 2006.
    • Linux. IDC expects Linux revenues to exceed $35.7B this year, with market share currently at 12.7%; higher for some industries. Internet traffic for December 07 was from Firefox 16% of the time.
    • Wireless applications. In-Stat reports that 75% of all US business use at least one wireless data application, with email, SFA and field service all popular wireless apps.
    Having a remote control solution that only support Windows PCs means you are unable to extend this powerful tool to an expanding band of users. The good news is that remote support vendors are expanding the operating systems they support. While a couple of providers support Mac and/or Linux, LogMeIn Rescue supports both AND wireless applications.

    Logmein provides a virtual replica of a smartphone on a support technician's screen, who can then manipulate the screen, use its keypad, and control it as if it were in the agent's own hands — all over the web. Wouldn't that be handy to have as you roll out Salesforce on Treos to your entire sales division?

    The scope of remote support has come a long way, and we are close to being able to access and fix any Internet-enabled appliance or device. I used to talk about the web refrigerator in presentations--how if your fridge was web enabled the manufacturer could monitor it, dispatch repair when it breaks, troubleshoot problems looking at usage records, etc. There are a few example already out there, such as onstar being able to diagnose engine problems, or my favorite, the i-pot, which tracks how many times a day you boil water (popular in Japan to keep tabs on elderly parents who live alone). But the LogMeIn product is the first I've seen to support enterprise applications on mobile devices, and I hope it sells like crazy so they continue expanding the mobile devices supported.

    Source:blogs.pcworld.com

Tuesday, 22 January 2008

  • Ways to avoid VIRUS

    Most of the computer users found the difficulties avoiding virus. What is “VIRUS”? How does it harm and destroy our computer? What is the effective ways to avoid it? all these will definitely come to our mind when you find there are something wrong on your computer.A virus is a program - a piece of executable code - that has the possibly of cloning itself. Computer viruses can spread fast and they are hard to eradicate. They can be attached to any type of file and they are spread as files copied and sent from person to person. They can be contacted from a floppy disk or CD, they can be launched when opening a program or accessing a file, any file, or they can be brought from the internet by downloading a file or accessing a web page and as attachments to e-mails.Besides replication, some viruses have something else in common: their infecting routine. The behaviours of viruses vary from showing messages or images to destroying files, formatting the hard disk drive and other severe damage. If the virus does not inflict damage it can still cause problems by taking up space and memory, lowering the performances of the computer.9 rules for avoiding computer viruses would be: 1. Use an anti virus program at all times.2. Install and keep active a firewall.3. Make sure your system is up-to-date with all the existent updates.4. Keep your browsers security settings at maximum.5. Never click yes when your browser asks you if you want to install or open some content coming from an organization you don't know or don't trust.6. Install an anti-spy ware program to enlarge the protection.7. Never install a browser help or search bar accepting the times it comes from a reliable source.8. Use a different credit card for online shopping.9. Don't click on email attachments that are executable files even if they look as if sent from known persons.