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Database language for managing data in relational database management systems (RDBMS).
Note that each database implements SQL with slight variations. Please remember to tag with your specific databa…
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Group of hosts with a common set of requirements connected as if on the same broadcast domain despite physical location
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The process of moving one system or service from one location or model to another.
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rdp is Remote Desktop Protocol, used by Windows to view and control other Windows systems
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IIS 7.5 is the version of IIS that ships with Windows 2008 R2, Windows Small Business Server 2011, and Windows 7. A subset of IIS 7.5 is provided by IIS Express, optionally installed by the Web Platfo…
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A broad term for a service where a third party "hosts" (physically stores/runs) computers, content or services that are managed and/or maintained by the customer.
Questions that are specific to the…
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Mounting is the concept of attaching a file system to a computer for access.
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Hewlett Packard's range of Intel and AMD-based free-standing, rackmount and blade servers.
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Kerberos is a computer network authentication protocol, which allows nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. Its designers aimed primar…
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Ubuntu 14.04, named "Trusty Tahr" is a Long Term Support release of Ubuntu Linux (released in April 2014). Note that http://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.
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Windows 10 is an operating system developed and released by Microsoft. The operating system is a return to its base for personal computer usage, unlike Windows 8/8.1 that was aimed more for the tablet…
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Solaris is a UNIX certified operating system owned and developed by Oracle for SPARC, x86 and x86-64 processor architectures.
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Fedora is a fast, stable, powerful, free RPM-based GNU/Linux operating system that is developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. The Fedora Project's mission is to l…
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Xen is a hypervisor based virtualization. It supports x86, AMD64, IA64, ARM and other CPU types, and Linux, Windows, Solaris and *BSD guest operating systems.
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APT, the Advanced Packaging Tool, is Debian's high-level package management system. It is also used by several other Linux-based and Debian-based operating systems.
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This is for questions on Amazon's cloud storage service.
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Office 365 is Microsoft's subscription based cloud solution for business productivity. All server side components are hosted at Microsoft managed datacentres. Customers that subscribe to O365 have acc…
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A partition is a means of logically dividing a computing resource (most frequently disk storage)
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A log file is a file, often in clear text, which is generated by a software process to record some specific details about the workings of this process.
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Oracle VM VirtualBox is a desktop virtualization product for x86, AMD64 and Intel64 processor architectures.
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Booting is the initial set of operations that a computer system performs when electrical power is switched on. The process begins when a computer that has been turned off is re-energized, and ends whe…
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Exim is a sendmail-compatible Mail Transfer Agent, licensed under the GPL, designed for Unix-like operating systems.
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Outlook is a standalone or groupware client for Microsoft Exchange. It is used for Email, contacts, tasks and calendar.
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Microsoft's SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. This tag is for questions on the 2005 version
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Questions about accessing a system or network from a remote computer or location. Consider using a more specific tag for your particular tool, e.g. VNC.
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Replication is the process of sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessib…
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IPsec (Internet Protocol Security) is a protocol for securing IP communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session.
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A service (also daemon or server) is a programme that constantly runs in the background. It usually services requests. If you are asking about online services, please use a different tag.
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Node.js is an event based, asynchronous I/O framework that uses Google's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js is commonly used for heavy client-server JavaScript applications. NOTE: Please read the Tag-Wiki …
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Ubuntu 12.04, named "Precise Pangolin" was a Long Term Support (LTS) release of Ubuntu Linux that has reached End of Life in April 2017. Extended maintenance stopped in April 2019.
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Django, "the web framework for perfectionists with deadlines", is a Python-based framework for creating web applications. With a powerful object-based database mapper, a clean syntax for mapping URLs …
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The SSH File Transfer Protocol, (sometimes called Secure File Transfer Protocol, Secure FTP), or SFTP, is a network protocol that provides file access, file transfer, and file management functionality…
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IIS 6.0 is the version of IIS shipped with Windows Server 2003. It uses an architecture substantially different from IIS 5 and earlier versions, called Worker Process Isolation Mode.
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The setting up and running of a server to serve web pages via the internet or LAN. Where you are not the administrator of the server the questions may be best asked on webmasters.stackexchange.com (fo…
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