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 ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

We just got a couple Airport cards to test (play) with. I've made our G4 into a Software Base Station and I'm wondering whether there is any way to make OS X act as a bridge like a normal Airport Base ...

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 ...