Internet Technology Bloghttp://www.businessminder.net/technologyrss.xmlInternet, Business, and Technology are highly related to each other. Business Owners and Entrepreneurs Need to Keep Up with Technology.Business Minder (http://www.businessminder.net)en-USBusiness Minder (http://www.businessminder.net)Truth About Scams and How Easy It Is To Create Fake ProofstechnologyBusiness Minderhttp://www.businessminder.net/truth-about-scams-and-how-easy-it-is-to-create-fake-proofs.htmlThe "I Make Money by Telling People How to Make Money" scheme is a saturated market full of scammers, especially on the Internet. I'm not saying making money on the Internet is not possible, but it's definitely not as easy as it sounds. Among the people who are trying to make money on the Internet, only a small portion actually succeeds. Scammers are experts in creating fake proofs representing false information. This post is not to deliver the message that "all proofs are fake", but to give you a brief idea of how easy it is to create fake proofs. In here weIncrease Wireless Coverage with Multiple Access PointstechnologyBusiness Minderhttp://www.businessminder.net/increase-wireless-coverage-with-multiple-access-points.htmlOften, a single wireless access point is not enough to provide wireless coverage at a single location. The solution is to install multiple wireless access points with the same wireless SSID and authentication. For example, here is an office with wireless coverage from 1 wireless access point: If we add another access point, the wireless coverage expands to... Note that there is a some overlapping wireless coverage. The key here is to reduce overlapping WiFi coverage as much as possible.   Things to keep in mind when implementing multiple access points: Overlapping WiFi coverage should be reduced to the minimum level. 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(About 30% of the time I would say) If you have clients running Windows in their offices, you can implement this strategy.   Let's assume the following scenario: For a client's office, you have the following computers within its network infrastructure: INFO-AS01 (Server, Windows Server 2003) INFO-OFFC-W001 (User workstation, WinXP) INFO-OFFC-W002 (User workstation, WinXP) INFO-OFFC-W003 (User workstation, WinXP) Drive Mapping Using Active Directory Logon ScriptstechnologyBusiness Minderhttp://www.businessminder.net/drive-mapping-using-active-directory-logon-scripts.htmlIf you have an active directory server (we'll use Windows 2003 Server here) controlling user accounts in a network, you can add logon scripts to user accounts or groups so that each time a user logs in, a network shared location will be automatically mapped. Previously we talked about how to enable file sharing in Windows XP. (Read Simple File Sharing In Windows) The process is quite straight forward. But if you have a lot of client computers that need to have access to a single shared location, say, 100 computers, it can be very time consuming to add the sharedSimple File Sharing in WindowstechnologyBusiness Minderhttp://www.businessminder.net/simple-file-sharing-in-windows.htmlFile sharing is quite common in today's world. File sharing allows multiple users (computers) to access the same files and folders. This is extremely useful if you need to share documents with everyone in the office. File sharing feature is enabled on every operating system. Here I'll show you how to enable file sharing in Windows XP.   Scenario You want to share the C drive on a computer named "INFO-TECH-W001" and you want all of the other computers in the same network to be able to access the C drive.   Step 1: On INFO-TECH-W001, right click on the C drive and choose "Sharing andWhat to Do When Your ISP Tries to Shut You Down?technologyBusiness Minderhttp://www.businessminder.net/what-to-do-when-your-isp-tries-to-shut-you-down.htmlViruses, hacks, exploits, these are the things that you want to avoid, especially if you are running a business and Internet connectivity is crucial to the daily operations of your business. During my experience providing IT support to various business clients, I have, quite frequently, been running into situations where the client's ISP is trying to shut down the client's Internet because a computer is sending out attacks to others from the client's office. Most of the time the problematic computer is infected with some sort of exploit that runs in the background to send out viruses, hacks, or exploits to others. HereHow to Migrate a Wordpress Blog to a different Web HosttechnologyBusiness Minderhttp://www.businessminder.net/how-to-migrate-a-wordpress-blog-to-a-different-web-host.htmlThis is an example of all the steps explained in the previous post: How to Migrate Website to Different Hosts Let's say we are moving from an existing domain with the following information: Domain Name: www.olddomain.com MySQL Server: mysql.olddomain.com MySQL Database Name: wordpress MySQL Database Username: wp_admin MySQL Database Password: olddomainpass Document Root: /home/user/b1529/sl.olddomain/public_html To the new domain with the following information: Domain Name: www.newdomain.com MySQL Server: localhost MySQL Database name: To Be Created How to Migrate Websites to different HoststechnologyBusiness Minderhttp://www.businessminder.net/how-to-migrate-websites-to-different-hosts.htmlDue to unwanted circumstances, sometimes we might have to migrate existing websites to different web hosts. 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