The UNIX ping command lets you test network servers and latency. Here's how to use it in the macOS Terminal app. The UNIX ping command is a tiny UNIX network tool that allows you to test your network, ...

Microsoft last week made available for free its Services for Unix software, which helps integrate Unix and Windows, and supports migrations of Unix applications to the Microsoft platform. Microsoft ...

Unix sysadmins routinely use the “ifconfig -a” command to list network parameters associated with their systems. In particular, they use this command to determine the IP address, netmask and broadcast ...

It is certainly well known that “hacker tools” can be used for many legitimate purposes. Nmap, the Network Mapper and security scanner is no exception. These days, it is used routinely to identify the ...

As Linux (ab)users, most of us take networking for granted. Luckily for us, this is made easy due to the Linux kernel design. But this can be abused, and badly. Although UNIX and Linux administrators ...

Support and usurp. This appears to be Microsoft Corp.’s Unix strategy as it launches the latest upgrade of its Windows Server operating system. At a recent media briefing in Singapore, David Lowe, ...

I have a HP Deskjet 841C attached to one of my Linux boxes via USB.<BR>Its set up as a network printer- all my linux boxes can print to it, by just selecting unix network printer and the HP 840/842 ...