Monday, August 06, 2012

IIS Windows 7 Ultimate

Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services, formerly called Internet Information Server) is a set of Internet-based services for servers created by Microsoft to be used with Microsoft Windows. It is the world's second most popular web server only after the Apache HTTP Server. The servers provide services for File Transfer Protocol, SMTP for e-mail and HTTP/HTTPS for web server.
In this article we will explain you how to install The Microsoft IIS Webserver on your computer. The IIS Server is NOT available for Microsoft Windows 7 Home edition as they say the Home edition was not meant for networking. So you must have the Proffessional edition or the Ultimate edition of Windows 7 installed on your computer for installing the IIS Webserver. You will also be needing the Windows 7 DVD during this install. Now, Follow the steps below:
1. Place the Windows 7 Ultimate or Windows 7 Proffessional DVD into your DVD-Rom Drive.
2. Goto Start > Control Panel > Programs
3. From the dialog box that opens, click on Turn Windows features on or off. You can check this detailed guide on how to add or remove Windows features in Windows 7.
4. This brings another dialog box that contains a list of many Windows related services
5. Check the box for 'Internet Information Services (IIS)' leaving all the default installation settings intact. If you would like to install additional services, then expand each option and select them.
6. Once IIS is installed on your machine you can view your home page in a web browser by typing 'http://localhost' (you can substitute 'localhost' for the name of your computer) into the address bar of your web browser. If you have not placed your web site into the default directory you should now be looking at the IIS documentation.
7. Service and Configuration management for your IIS web server
8. You might like to install IIS Tuner in order to configure your IIS server installation for optimum performance.
9. Now, Install the Web development options for Visual Studio 2012 RC

Wednesday, August 01, 2012

The cost of connectivity

Forget about the Olympics.... USA first city/provider... rank 30 Can't wait for Google Fiber !!! http://oti.newamerica.net/publications/policy/the_cost_of_connectivity

Rank

City

ISP

Download Speed

Upload Speed

Price (USD/PPP)

Network Technology

Data Cap (GB)

1

Riga

Balti-Com

20

5

25.43

Cable

None

2

Seoul

KT

50

50

32.74

Fiber

None

3

Paris

Free

100

50

34.47

Fiber

None

4

Seoul

LGplus

100

100

35.78

Fiber

None

5

Paris

SFR

25

--

36.67

ADSL

None

6

Paris

Bouygues Telecom

20

0.512

36.67

ADSL

None

7

Paris

Orange

20

--

37.53

ADSL

None

8

Copenhagen

Telia

20

1

40.36

DSL

None

9

London

Virgin

30

--

43.03

Fiber

None

10

Paris

Darty

100

5

43.56

Fiber

None

11

Amsterdam

T-Mobile

20

1

44.64

DSL

--

12

Berlin

TeleColumbus

16

1

44.93

Cable

None

13

London

BT

16

--

45.45

DSL

None

14

Riga

Lattelecom

20

20

45.66

Fiber

None

15

Hong Kong

City Telecom Limited

500

20

46.72

Fiber

None

30

Lafayette

AT&T*

6

1

65.60

DSL

250

32

Chattanooga

AT&T*

6

1

68.44

DSL

250

33

San Francisco

AT&T*

6

1

73.94

DSL

250

34

Los Angeles

Verizon*

7

--

79.99

DSL

None

38

San Francisco

Comcast

20

4

89.97

Cable

300

39(t)

New York

RCN

25

2

89.99

Cable

None

39(t)

Washington DC

RCN

25

2

89.99

Cable

None

41

Washington DC

Verizon*

15

5

89.99

DSL

None

43

Los Angeles

TimeWarner

10

1

89.99

Cable

None

46

Bristol

BVU

16

3

96.40

Fiber

None

47

Washington DC

Comcast

20

--

99.00

Cable

300

48

Bristol

Charter

15

3

99.97

Cable

100

49

Chattanooga

Comcast

20

4

99.99

Cable

300

50

Lafayette

LUS

15

15

103.89

Fiber

1024

51

Bristol

CenturyLink*

10

0.7

107.26

DSL

250

52

New York

Time Warner

15

0.78

112.69

Cable

None

53

San Francisco

Astound

10

1

124.00

Fiber

100

55

Chattanooga

EPB

30

30

129.51

Fiber

None**

56

Lafayette

Cox

15

1.5

133.96

Cable

200

57

New York

Verizon

10

2

154.98

Fiber

None