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In an ethernet network there are 4 devices that from the the outside look very similar. In this article we will look at the difference between hubs, switches, bridges, and routers.

A 29-year old Delta flight attendant was recently fired for posting provocative pictures of herself in her Delta uniform.

For a random Bible verse block on one of my other sites, I needed a way to pull a single random record out of the database.

During development of an online application, I needed a way to generate a GUID. I’m sure there are other, better ways to do this. But, this is how I decided to do it.

Do you ever find yourself needing to know whether an ethernet port will light up without actually hooking it up to a switch. Or, do you need to know what port on a switch a certain jack is plugged in to. Lucky for you, it’s really easy to make your own ethernet loopback [...]

After moving from an apartment into a house we found ourselves with computers in different rooms; and they both needed internet access (and printer, and hard drive sharing).

I had an unfortunate experience with a small, cheap, inherited SMC ethernet hub. Originally I had two computers linked together with this switch and a DSL modem attached via a crossover cable. My computer had the PPoE dialer and a free proxy program to allow the other computer to get internet access. [...]

Don’t complain about spam in your inbox anymore. Bill Gates gets over 4 million pieces of email per day.

Welcome to another blog (yeah, yeah, I know). But, if everybody else can do it, why not me.