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    Posted in Personal Tech | March 18th, 2010

    In today’s hectic time, you may have accumulated hundreds if not thousands of important files over time. Imagine now, if one day you turn on your laptop or PC and find the files of your customers’ or even your vacation photos are no longer accessible. They are gone. You cant retrieve them. All your life’s work is gone for good. How did this happen you ask yourself? Well there are many factors that contribute to the loss or destruction of files.

    External environment factors:

    • Lightening,
    • Power surges,
    • Power outages

    Often leads to electric fluctuations in electricity causing damage to the hard drive of the PC or laptop. This fluctuation is common in areas where power lines are found above ground that are exposed to the harsh elements such as areas in the US Midwest. Being in the city however does not guarantee constant flowing electricity. Power outages can occur wherever external electricity is provided.

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    IPv6 Theory

    Posted in Certification Tests | January 25th, 2010

    I started the last chapter of the CCNP Study Guide book today which is about implementing IPv6 (IP Version 6). IPv6 is a technology developed to overcome the limitations of the current standard, IP Version 4 (IPv4). The major shortcoming of IPv4 is its limited amount of address space. With the amount of IP enabled devices growing at a steady rate, many regions throughout the world are seeing a need for more IP addresses. In the United States, the Department of Defense (DoD) is a primary driver for the adoption of IPv6 and has set a date of 2008 for all systems with the US government to be set to this standard.

    IPv6 allows for better scalability with networks and supplies what seems like a limitless amount of IP addresses to use. IPv6 provides the following enhancements:

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    Computer Forensics – A Real World Application

    Posted in Computer Forensics | September 6th, 2009

    Everyone’s so caught up these days in computer forensics and forensic science to solve murder mysteries like those seen on the TV series CSI. But computer forensics is not all murder and police drama. There are far more necessary reasons for those in this particular industry, and a very interesting case has come up recently involving the company Nintendo.

    After noticing a recent news article from Australia, I was surprised to find that a US and Japanese based video game company was bringing a law suit forth to an Australian man who violated international and US and Australian copyright laws. After an Australian game store accidentally released the new Super Mario Brothers game for their Wii system six days before Nintendo had scheduled a global release, a 24 year old Australian named James Burt broke through the game’s code and illegally uploaded the game to the internet, allowing thousands to download the game illegally onto their own computers without paying Nintendo any money. This perhaps cost Nintendo millions of dollars.

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