Dries Janssens

The following is an account of my adventures in setting up the Windows 7 beta version, made available by Microsoft on Friday, January 9, 2009. After some initial bandwidth/server problems, Microsoft finally seems to have its act together, and the beta is finally available to the crowd and download restrictions are dropping left and right. […]

If there is one thing most administrators wish they could have more of, it would be time. In these harsh economic times, the first victim of budgetary rationing is often the IT department, therefore it becomes increasingly important to be effective and exceedingly productive. Indeed, effectiveness is the antidote to slashed budgets: more than ever, […]

With all the commotion surrounding Windows 7, one could almost forget that most companies have not even made the leap to Vista. Does Windows 7 have what it takes to make these customers skip Vista? Or will Redmond be forced to deploy every trick in the book to avoid a repeat of Vista’s less-than-stellar reception? […]

Introduction While IPv4 addressing is basic knowledge for most of us, the same may not be true for IPv6 addressing. Below is a quick overview of some IPv4 key points, followed by a primer on IPv6. IPv4 Addresses An IPv4 address is expressed in either dotted-decimal notation (e.g. 200.125.248.12) or binary notation (11001000.01111101.11111000.00001100 in this […]