Understanding RAID

The Rock Tutorial

This issue's tutorial focuses on creating a rock background in Adobe Photoshop for backdrops, webpage design, materials for 3D design, or text were a strong statement needs to be made. Upon completing tutorial you will get an understanding of how both cloud filters and channels execute in order to get the desired 3D effect that makes this rock look very realistic.

Understanding RAID (Part 2)

This week's article is going to continue in identifying some of the Terms and Concepts of Hardware and Software RAID, specifically the remaining players of RAIDs 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, and 0+1. For detailed information on RAID 0, 1 and 5, please see Understanding RAID (part 1).

Industry Trends: Plug and Play

Technological advances over the years have driven the manufacturers of information technology products and systems to add "plug & play" features into their systems as much as possible. The industry direction has been to lower the level of technical knowledge/skills required for system installations and configurations. However, the by-product of this has been to add a tremendous amount of overhead into all aspects of networking.

Red Hat Linux 9 Review

Red Hat installations are becoming pretty boring now - always the same thing - which is a very, very good sign.

How to Market your Programming Skills

Marketing and selling are hard things to do deliberately. We all do it all the time unconsciously, but to actually ask for money is often difficult for those not used to it.