by Himanshu Arora on May 14, 2013
From an email client, you’ll typically compose a message, attach any necessary files, and send it to the recipient. But, have you wondered what happens behind the scenes? How the email is sent from your outbox to the recipients inbox?
In this article, we will explain the basis of email. For those who already know this stuff, this might be a quick refresher.
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by Himanshu Arora on May 1, 2013
IP multi-casting is a communication mechanism in which data is communicated from server to a set of clients who are interested in receiving that data. Any client can dynamically enter or leave the communication.
Though the overall concept seems very simple but the way it is implemented requires good understanding. So, in this tutorial we will cover the basics of IP multi-casting and how it is achieved.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on February 19, 2013
Most of us work very hard to take good care of others. You do a good job in knocking down your projects at work, you take care of your family well, you spend time with your friends, you help others who are in trouble, etc.
Have you ever stopped for a moment and gave some thought about how much time or effort you spend in taking care of yourself?
Mind, body and heart are three essential parts of yourself. Do you pay enough attention to all these three aspects of yourself? In my opinion, all these three should be well balanced, and taken care equally. If you’ve never consciously paid attention from this angle, following few points will get your thinking going in that direction.
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by Ramesh Natarajan on January 1, 2013
Happy New Year from Me and My Daughters (Diya and Neha)
Happy New Year to all TGS readers. We wish you and your family a happy and prosperous new year.
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by Himanshu Arora on August 8, 2012
While majority of the end-users doesn’t care how Internet works, some of you might be curious to understand the basics of how Internet works.
In this article we will try to peel off the first layer on this topic to understand how Internet works by elaborating the journey of a data packet from its source to destination on the Internet. From this perspective, we’ll try to keep the content of this article fairly basic.
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by Lakshmanan Ganapathy on July 25, 2012
nslookup is a network administration tool for querying the Domain Name System (DNS) to obtain domain name or IP address mapping or any other specific DNS record.
It is also used to troubleshoot DNS related problems. This article provides few examples on using the nslookup command.
nslookup can operate on both “Interactive mode” and “Non-Interactive mode”. Interactive mode allows the user to query the DNS-Server about various host, and domains. Non-Interactive mode allows the user to query the information for a host or domain. In this article, all the commands explained are “Non-Interactive mode”.
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by Himanshu Arora on July 23, 2012
While debugging a particular problem, sometimes you may have to analyze the protocol traffic going out and coming into your machine. Wireshark is one of the best tool used for this purpose. In this article we will learn how to use Wireshark network protocol analyzer display filter.
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by Himanshu Arora on July 4, 2012
Computer software are developed to either automate some tasks or solve some problems. Either way, a software achieves the goal with the help of the logic that the developer of that software writes. Every logic requires some services like computing the length of a string, opening a file etc. Standard services are catered by some functions or calls that are provided for this purpose only.
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