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22 hours ago ago from Sameh Attia

Good time keeping is not an obvious priority for network administrators, but the more you think about it the clearer it is that accurate clocks have a crucial role to play on any network. Let the clocks on your networked devices get out of sync and you could end up losing valuable corporate data. Here are just a few things that rely on hardware clocks which are accurately set and in sync with each other: Scheduled data backups ...

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14 hours ago ago from Dedicated Hosting Linux

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11 hours ago ago from The New York Times

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