Cloud Computing is entering through open source and free softwares. In recent years, Open Nebula, Open Stack, Eucalyptus have offered several alternatives. First the services of Amazon's cloud computing opened the way for a boom in the computer industry for powerful and flexible service only available at that time on the Internet. Now the same technology is entering the market of the major … [Read more...]
Host in Computer Network
Host in computer network refers to the clients or server hosts. The term host used in computing since the early 1960s in connection with mainframe computers. After Computer Networks conquered the everyday life in the 1980s, the term was also used for device connected to a network computers that provided services mostly to smaller or less powerful systems. In addition to the complex operating … [Read more...]
OS X Tips and Tricks : Part 2
OS X Tips and Tricks is the second part of our some of the hidden features, less known features of UNIX origin. Some funny, some useful. You can read the previous article named OS X Tips and Tricks - Features You Might Not Know to enjoy some more tricks. Here are more 8 tips to go faster with Mac. OS X Tips and Tricks : Introduction, Precaution Expected User Experience : … [Read more...]
Communications Protocol : Brief Details
Communications Protocol in simple English, is a protocol may be defined as the Syntax, Semantics and Synchronization to determine communication. Protocols may be implemented by hardware, software or combination of both. At the lowest level, a protocol defines the behavior of the connecting hardware. If the communication is in a computer network, we call it network protocol. To reach agreement, a … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing : Yes or No?
Cloud Computing - Yes or No? This is the question every individual, business and IT must deal today. Because the cloud is newer trend, already new models and developments are emerging alongside the public cloud and private cloud model, many new technologies including vertical scaling and better service-level agreements are being added up. You will get more details in Cloud Computing Service … [Read more...]
Human computer Interaction
There is still no concrete definition for the set of concepts that can define human-computer interaction. In general terms, we could say that human-computer interaction is the discipline that studies the exchange of information via software between human and computers. This is useful for the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive technological devices, studying what can potentially … [Read more...]
Mac Pro : Technical Details of Apple’s Workstation
Mac Pro is Apple's most powerful and highly configurable Intel Xeon“based workstation computer came as successor of Apple Power Mac G5 series. Due to highly configurable nature, pricing of Mac Pro falls within a range from $2,499.00 to $3,799.00 (at the time of writing) and you can configure up to the price tag $14,366.00 (extra softwares are not calculated). Previously we wrote what to choose … [Read more...]
Typekit and Web Fonts
Typekit allows to embed fonts into online documents through CSS to render perfect looking fonts. With Retina display, quality of rendering becoming a factor. Two years ago, we published an article on usage of elegant and light typography for websites. All old articles like what fonts to use and for which purposes in blogs, Selecting the right font for your blog are becoming important as Apple … [Read more...]
VPS Without Control Panel : All the Needed Info
VPS without control panel makes a new users scarred with the only black command line option. But this is the best way and you will master to use it very fast. First, we are considering Cloud VPS mainly as they are on Pay as You Go model - like Rackspace Unmanaged Cloud Server, if you can not control the test server or have messed it up, simply delete it - no fixed monthly cost, only the usage cost … [Read more...]
Secure Connection to Cloud Infrastructure by VPN Tunnel
Secure connection to Cloud Infrastructure by using VPN Tunnel - like we already said on our Secure Cloud Computing Guide, we pointed the importance of the connecting device. Practically it is a part of Comprehensive Cloud Security Strategy. It is obvious that, for this article; we have to take that the reader is used with the common computing terminologies like VPN (Virtual Private Network), … [Read more...]
What is Terminal?
What is Terminal? A terminal console and a computer is for input and display of data. Terminals have been developed so far for the mainframe computers. Previously we wrote about the best practices for Mainframe Systems and Terminal Emulation and in this article we will explain the simple question - What is Terminal? It advised to read about Terminal Emulation too, to get the difference. Another … [Read more...]