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The articles and reviews reprinted in this section are the author's original files.   These may differ from published versions of the work because of editorial changes and trimming of length to fit the space.  Only articles and reviews written by Tim Parker are available through this site.  All these articles and reviews are copyright by Tim Parker and the publisher. For a magazine's other contents, check their respective Web sites.

These are selected articles from the over-3,500 articles, reviews and columns I have published.  There is rotation of article contents on the site, mostly based on reader requests for subject information.  So, some articles are dropped and others added mostly at random, with newer articles and reviews maintained on this site for a year after publication. 

Recent Computer Articles (for various purposes)

bulletAJAX 3.5 Overview: What's AJAX 3.5 about?
bulletASP.NET 3.5 Overview: What's new in Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5
bulletNetwork Basics: an overview of TCP/IP, and the IP protocol
bulletNetworking Analysis: an introduction to networking basics
bulletTFS: a look at using VSS and TFS in VS2008 TFS
bulletT-SQL BACKUP and RESTORE statements from the command line
bulletWebsite Vulnerabilities: SQL injection and cross-site scripting
bulletVisual Studio: A Short History
bulletVisual Studio 2008 Editions: Which edition should you use (Part 1)
bulletVisual Studio 2008 Editions: Which edition should you use (Part 2)
bulletWPF: Windows Presentation Framework overiew

Recent Photographic Articles (for various purposes)

bulletMaking Eyes Pop: Adding Emphasis to Eyes in a Portrait Using PhotoShop (PDF Format)
bulletMasks: Using Quickmasks in PhotoShop (PDF Format)
bulletRemoving Flyaway Hair: Tweaking Hair in PhotoShop (PDF Format)
bulletUsing Duotones: Creating Duotone images in PhotoShop (PDF Format)

Canadian Computer Reseller articles from 1998:

bulletTim Parker's Editor’s Choice Awards 1998 (December 1998)
bulletDigital Snaps: digital cameras and photography (January 1998)

Canadian Computer Reseller classic articles (prior to 1998):

bullet56k Modems: New Technology or Marketing Material? (May 1997)
bulletInput Devices: Look what’s happened to my Mouse, Ma (March 1996)
bulletMultimedia Gets Standardized (March 1997)
bulletSeeing Through the Intranet Smoke (October 1996)

Digital Foto (Digital Photography):

bulletAchieving film effects with digital manipulation
bulletLexmark Z52 Color Jetprinter
bulletLighting a Portrait
bulletLizardTech’s MrSID
bulletLow-light photography
bulletNikon Coolpix 990
bulletPentax EI200
bulletPhotographing natural wonders
bulletUnderwater photography

Linux Journal

bulletM-Tech’s P-Synch: changing the way we change passwords (January 1999)

Linux Server Computing articles and reviews from 2001:

bulletAppgen BAG: Application Generator for Linux
bulletBenchmark Tape Systems DLT-1
bulletUNIX and Linux Clusters
bulletComtrol RocketPort Plus
bulletDigi AccelePort Xp
bulletEasy Information Technology’s easyLinux and easySamba
bulletVMWare GSX Server
bulletIBM Small Business Suite For Linux
bulletISIS ImageStream Enterprise Router
bulletInstagate EX
bulletPFU Happy Hacking keyboard
bullet3Rsoft MailStudio@Message
bulletCommunicado: Fax for the desktop
bulletIOLink 520
bulletSangoma Wanpipe S5141
bulletSuSE 7.1: Bigger and better
bulletSoftware AG Tamino: XML Toolkit
bulletVeritas NetBackup
bulletVolution from Caldera
bulletWestern Telematic Console Management Switch

Maximum Linux 

bulletClustering
bulletConfiguring NFS under Linux
bulletDNS and Linux
bulletGigabit Ethernet
bulletLinux UPSs
bulletRAID and Linux
bulletTapedrives and Linux
bulletThree Linux Firewall Packages
bulletTurn-key network servers

PC Pilot (a UK flight simulation magazine):

bulletJust Flight’s Korean Combat Pilot (June 2001)

SCO World Magazine articles and reviews from 2000:

bulletLinux Backup Software
bulletDouble-conversion 2kVA UPSs
bulletPCI WAN cards
bulletTarantella and Metaframe
bulletTerminal emulators for UNIX and Linux
bulletUNIX and its kin: UNIX and Linux comparo
bulletReviews:
bullet3Ware Escalade IDE RAID Controller
bulletBenchmark DLT7 Autoloader
bulletBlast: File Transfers the easy way
bulletCactus Air-Bag and Lone-Tar for UnixWare
bulletStalker’s CommuniGate Pro Mail Server
bulletComputronics Logmon
bulletComtrol RocketPort Serialhub Si
bulletCorel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux
bulletDigi MiLAN 10/100 Ethernet Switches
bulletEcrix VXA Tape Drive
bulletFacetWin 3
bulletKingston Fast EtheRx Hub
bulletLutris Enhydra 3.0
bulletMaxSpeed +OneStation
bulletMaxtor MaxAttach
bulletMobilesys EtherPage
bulletOmnis Studio 2.4
bulletOvrimos SQL Server
bulletStorm Firewall
bulletTrippLite’s Unison 1000 UPS
bulletTrippLite’s Smart Unison 6K UPS
bulletUniTrends Backup Professional 1.3
bulletVeritas Backup Exec
bulletVSI-Fax 4.0

SCO World Magazine articles and reviews from 1999:

bulletCactus Shell Lock (First Look, November 1999)
bulletCentury Software’ s TinyTERM (First Look, July 1999)
bulletCyclades PR-4000 RAS (First Look, November 1999)
bulletFacetWin 2.1 (First Look, January 1999)
bulletInterface Systems’ CLEO TN3270E (First Look, April 1999)
bulletISDN Remote Access Servers (Review Article, November 1999)
bulletMicrolite’s BackupEdge (First Look, November 1999)
bulletMultitech Proxy Server (First Look, August 1999)
bulletPowerQuest’s BootMagic and PartitionMagic (First Look, January 1999)
bulletSavoir Technology SavWareHA   (First Look, July 1999)
bulletSeay Easyspooler (First Look, November 1999)
bulletStallion EasyServer II (First Look, July 1999)
bulletTransitional Technology Inc’s Series 2300 DLT tape subsystem (First Look, August 1999)
bulletTrippLite UPS (First Look, January 1999)
bulletTRAVAN Tape Drives (Review article, April 1999)
bulletUninterruptible Power Supplies (Review article, August 1999)
bulletWAN Boards (Review Article, July 1999)
bulletWinFast (First Look, April 1999)
bulletWyse Network Terminal 5355SE (First Look, August 1999)

SCO World Magazine articles and reviews from 1998:

bullet1776 Fault-Freedom II (First Look, March 1998)
bulletArco DupliDisk-PCI (First Look, April 1998)
bulletCaldera’s Linux Family (Article January 1998)
bulletComtrol Interchange VS 100 (First Look, January 1998)
bulletComtrol Rocketmodem (First Look, January 1998)
bulletClustering For Protection (Article, July 1998)
bulletCyclades Ze Multiport Serial System (First Look, March 1998)
bulletDialogic CT-Connect (First Look, March 1998)
bulletDPT RAIDStation and ServerOnCall (First Look, April 1998)
bulletElan License Manager (First Look, February 1998)
bulletJ. River ICE.TCP Pro (First Look, March 1998)
bulletInnomedia’s InnoWave  (First Look, September 1998)
bulletKL Group PageFormatter (First Look, February 1998)
bulletNeoWare’s NeoStation Network Computer (First Look, February 1998)
bulletNetwork Instruments WinSock Companion (First Look, March 1998)
bulletNFS Gateways for Windows NT (Review article, August 1998)
bulletOffice Applications (Article, February 1998)
bulletRemote Access Servers (Review article, July 1998)
bulletSBE’s wanXL (First Look, September 1998)
bulletSCO Tarantella (Article, January 1998)
bulletSpellCaster Babylon (First Look, January 1998)
bulletTactix ReEngineering Inc’s Multiple Remote Copy (First Look, July 1998)
bulletTridia’s Doublevision (First Look, September 1998)
bulletUnixWare 7: revolution or revision? (Article, March 1998)
bulletUpgrading to OpenServer 5 and UnixWare 7 (Article, September, 1998)
bulletWRQ’s Express Meter (First Look, March 1998)
bulletWRQ's Reflection NFS Gateway (First Look, July 1998)

Windows NT Expert

bulletDHCP, Part 1
bulletDHCP, Part 2

Windows NT Systems

bulletAccessing Mainframe and Minicomputers: X marks the spot (Article, June 1998)
bulletActive Directory: A network-wide NT Filesystem (Article, July 1997)
bulletButtoning Up Your System (Article, January 1998)
bulletComtrol RocketPort and RocketModem (Review, January 1998)
bulletDHCP, WINS and DNS (Article, January 1998)
bulletE-Z Lock: Protecting your laptop (Review, July 1999)
bulletNorton Uninstall Deluxe (Review, January 1998)
bulletNorton Utilities and Norton Crashguard (Review, September 1999)
bulletOffice 2000: Worth upgrading? (Review, August 1999)
bulletP-Synch: Making Network Life Easier (Review, January 1998)
bulletRAID: Saving Your Data (Article, January 1998)
bulletRoboMon: System management made easy? (Review, March 1998)
bulletVital Signs’ Net.Medic (Review, December 1997)
bulletWindows NT 4: A Critical View (Article, January 1997)
 

 

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