The online world was abuzz yesterday with the official 9th birthday of search engine giant Google – I’m sure you’ve heard of it? Although co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain in 1997, the site was officially launched a year later. As usual, Google’s trademark logo was adapted for the event. For an [...]

One of the causes of the dot-com bust was the inability of companies to deliver the rich web-based applications that users expected, and although the limitations on the development of these apps was tied directly to the technology available to the average end-user attempting to access them (hardly the fault of the developers or those trying to deliver [...]

One of the most common questions people ask regarding their website is how to get it ranked well, usually not on search engines, but more specifically, on Google. While rankings on the major search engines are not universal, there is quite a bit of parity among them, and a site that we sponsor, SEOMoz, is [...]

Earlier this month, I posted about Microsoft Silverlight, comparing the recent release from the software giant to Apple’s iPhone. While the adoption of Microsoft’s new web platform may not rival that of the iPhone, which recently reached the 1 million units sold milestone, websites, seminars, and tutorials will slowly become available. Michael Sherotter, an evangelist [...]

* * *s (or other equivalent 100% packet loss) in the route usually is not a sign of any problems
Certain hosts in the path will simply show a misleading 100% packet loss using applications such as Ping Plotter, which run a trace and then do multiple pings of each hop directly afterwards, despite the fact [...]

Security relating to computers and networks has always been a concern for IT managers tending to Enterprise-class operations. Despite all their efforts to keep their networks free from intruders - be it a hacker, a worm, a trojan, or a virus – the biggest security risk to these systems is most often the users themselves. Over time, more [...]

Newsletters – who doesn’t love ‘em? Sure sometimes they can be annoying; plugging up your inbox with excessively used exclamation points and distracting graphics, but behind their razzle dazzle exterior lies some truly awesome tips, tricks, info, resources and even coupons (I recommend becoming a member of the DQ Blizzard Club – excellent coupons) that [...]

Traceroute/tracert-like applications or commands will provide accurate results
Neither traceroute nor traceroute-like applications will provide accurate results. They can not, as using ICMP ping is inherently unreliable, as often the routers in the path, and sometimes even the end host, will be configured to either entirely discard ICMP ping requests, to treat it at the lowest [...]