south hills school of business and technology

Diagnostic Medical Sonography

The DMS programs for General, Cardiac, and Vascular Sonography are accredited by the (CAAHEP).

Three Year AST Degree Program
134 credits / 2,952 clock hours

Diagnostic Ultrasound uses high-frequency sound waves to image various organs and structures within the body. It is completely noninvasive, and is used extensively in hospitals and clinics worldwide. The Diagnostic Medical Sonographer utilizes high-tech equipment to assess abdominal organs such as the liver and kidneys; the heart in adults, children, and even the fetus; blood flow within veins and arteries throughout the body, and brain structure in newborn infants.

Sonographers are respected members of the healthcare team. They work closely with physicians such as Radiologists, Cardiologists, Perinatologists, and Surgeons, in the diagnosis of various diseases and conditions.

Students choose from three Sonography specializations:

• General Sonography (OB/GYN, Abdominal)
• Cardiac Sonography (Echocardiography/Heart)
• Vascular Sonography

DMS Professional Plus
83.5 credits / 2,088 clock hours

This two year diploma program is designed for applicants who already have a previous Bachelor's degree in a field other than Medical Imaging. It includes courses anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, patient care, and medical imaging sciences.

DMS Professional
55 credits / 1,536 clock hours

This one year diploma program is designed for applicants who already have a previous 2-year or 4-year degree or diploma in a Medical Imaging specialty such as Radiologic Technology or Nuclear Medicine Technology. It assumes a strong background in anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, patient care, and medical imaging sciences.

Career Opportunities

• Echocardiographer
• Vascular Sonographer
• General/Abdominal Sonographer
• OB/Gyn Sonographer
• Ultrasound Department Manager
• Imaging Services Manager
• Applications Specialist

SAMPLE Of CLINICAL INTERNSHIP AFFILIATES

• Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
• York Wellspan Health System, York, PA
• Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD
• Lehigh Valley General Hospital, Allentown, PA
• UPMC Presbyterian Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
• UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
• Guthrie Clinic and Robert Packer Hospital, Sayre, PA
• Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Towson, MD
• Holy Spirit Hospital, Camp Hill, PA
• Chesapeake General Hospital, Chesapeake, VA
• Quality Vascular Imaging, Venice, FL

Sample of Courses

• Ultrasound Physics and Instrumentation I and II
• Vascular Technology I and II
• Clinical Obstetrics
• Cross-sectional and Three-dimensional Anatomy
• Echocardiography I and II
• Law and Ethics for Imaging Professionals

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storage area network technology

Storage area network
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Not to be confused with Network-attached storage.

A storage area network (SAN) is a storage device (such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes) accessible to servers so the devices appear as locally attached to the operating system. A SAN typically has its own network of storage devices that are generally not accessible through the regular network by regular devices. The cost and complexity of SANs dropped in the late 2000s, allowing wider adoption across both enterprise and small to medium sized business environments.

A SAN alone does not provide the "file" abstraction, only block-level operations. However, file systems built on top of SANs do provide this abstraction, and are known as SAN filesystems or shared disk file systems.
Contents
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* 1 Storage sharing
o 1.1 SAN and NAS
o 1.2 SAN-NAS hybrid
* 2 Benefits
* 3 Network types
* 4 SAN infrastructure
* 5 Compatibility
* 6 SANs in media and entertainment
* 7 Storage virtualization
* 8 See also
* 9 References
* 10 External links

[edit] Storage sharing
Organization

Historically, data centers first created "islands" of SCSI disk arrays as direct-attached storage (DAS), each dedicated to an application, and visible as a number of "virtual hard drives" (i.e. LUNs). Essentially, a SAN consolidates such storage islands together using a high-speed network.

Operating systems maintain their own file systems on them on dedicated, non-shared LUNs, as though they were local to themselves. If multiple systems were simply to attempt to share a LUN, these would interfere with each other and quickly corrupt the data. Any planned sharing of data on different computers within a LUN requires advanced solutions, such as SAN file systems or clustered computing.

Despite such issues, SANs help to increase storage capacity utilization, since multiple servers consolidate their private storage space onto the disk arrays.

Common uses of a SAN include provision of transactionally accessed data that require high-speed block-level access to the hard drives such as email servers, databases, and high usage file servers.
[edit] SAN and NAS

Network-attached storage (NAS), in contrast to SAN, uses file-based protocols such as NFS or SMB/CIFS where it is clear that the storage is remote, and computers request a portion of an abstract file rather than a disk block. Recently,[when?] the introduction of NAS heads[clarification needed] has allowed easy conversion of SAN storage to NAS.
[edit] SAN-NAS hybrid
Hybrid using DAS, NAS and SAN technologies.

Despite the differences between SAN and NAS, it is possible to create solutions that include both technologies, as shown in the diagram.

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technology escrow

Technology Escrow Services

It’s not only about trust. It’s about intelligent risk management.

As the world’s largest and most experienced provider of technology escrow services, Iron Mountain helps more than 90% of the Fortune 1000 safeguard their investments, mitigate risk and maintain control over key software and intellectual property assets

A technology escrow agreement works much the same way as an insurance policy. When two parties enter into a licensor/licensee relationship, the source code for the technology in question is deposited into an escrow account that ensures:

• Licensors have a trusted partner who will securely hold onto the source code and release it only under very specific and controlled conditions
• Licensees may gain access to the source code for mission-critical software and other technologies should the licensor/developer no longer support it for any reason

Iron Mountain created the technology escrow industry in 1982 to help companies protect software source code, object code, data and other valuable technology assets. Today, we are the world’s leading provider of intellectual property management services, with a comprehensive range of Software Escrow, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Domain Name Records Management Solutions.

Of course, escrow is just a part of the solution. Studies have shown that 80-90% of all technology escrow deposits are incomplete—which is why Iron Mountain complements our Escrow Services with the industry’s most advanced Escrow Verification Services. Our trusted experts validate that the escrowed technology includes all the components necessary to read, recreate, maintain and support applications if there is ever a need for a deposit release. In short: verification makes sure that what you’re paying to escrow is what you actually need.

With Iron Mountain, your organization can benefit from:

• Access to the infrastructure, resources and expertise of the world’s most trusted provider of escrow services
• A single point-of-contact for all your escrow needs
• Solutions that protect developers, licensees, SaaS providers and subscribers alike
• Comprehensive services tailored to meet your unique needs and requirements
• Consulting services to assist you at every stage of the escrow process, safeguard your interests and help you maintain control
• User-friendly service features including electronic depositing and deposit verification
• Iron Mountain Escrow Management Center, an online tool for easy access and real-time management of all your escrow accounts

When you need help—call on Iron Mountain’s Intellectual Property Management Consulting Services

Iron Mountain offers consulting services to help our clients with the planning and implementation of technology escrow solutions and best practices.

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online mba in technology

Degree Overview

Our online MBA with an IT management emphasis will make you incredibly valuable in the Information Technology industry. The MBA in Information Technology will prepare you with the skills and knowledge to take on mid- to upper-level IT management positions in a variety of settings. You will become an advanced IT manager with the skills and knowledge to set you above the competition.

Who the program is for:

• Experienced IT professionals seeking to move into management positions and need the credentials to do so.
• Individuals with "real world" experience who seek in-depth knowledge and skills in business and IT management and strategy.

This program will be flexible and adaptable to your schedule.

What You’ll Learn -—Areas of Study:

In this online MBA in technology management, you’ll learn all the essential skills and knowledge needed. This program includes and completion of a capstone project.

• Information Technology Management
• Leading People and Teams
• Creating and Maintaining Business Values
• Products and Customer Relationship Management
• Innovation

Total Program: 36 Competency Units (credit equivalents)

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technology management conference

Welcome

Join innovators and experts in exploring the critical technology issues facing the securities industry today. Get the strategies and solutions your firm needs to stay competitive and learn about the emerging technologies that will keep you ahead of the field.

SIFMA's 28th Annual Technology Management Conference & Exhibit is the industry's leading event with over 300 vendors and 7,000 attendees. The conference will address the rapidly-changing world of technology and how the financial industry is using technology to drive productivity, comply with regulatory requirements, and adapt to converging markets, products and investors.

This year's program promises to deliver an informative and educational program designed expressly for individuals within securities firms who have management responsibility for technology-based support activities, including: communications, market data, information security, trading room support, web and Internet technology and information systems.

Program details to be announced - check back for program updates. The Conference program is developed under the guidance of the sponsoring SIFMA Technology Management Committee. For more information regarding the program, please contact Art Trager a

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clean technology 2008

15 Aralık 2010 Çarşamba

About Clean Technology Ventures

An ideal forum for “seed” to “early-stage” companies to showcase their technologies, market advantages, and to search for funding. Selected companies give 10 minute presentations, and benefit from on-site networking with the Clean Technology Ventures Vetting Team, corporate capital, venture capital and multi-sector investment attendees.

Clean Technology Ventures is co-located with, and programmed in collaboration with the and meetings. Join the world’s largest Nanotech Venture, IP and Partnering Forum!

Companies selected by the are given 15 minutes to present and will have on-site networking with the TechConnect 2008 Vetting Team, corporate capital, venture and multi-sector investment attendees all reviewing from the audience.

Participation is limited to the top 200 vetted/scored companies and all presenting company officials must be registered TechConnect 2008 attendees.

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system administrator spam

"Undeliverable" Messages From "System Administrator" - Just Spam?

Hello,

I've been receiving lots of message for the past several days in my Outlook
2003/Exchange mailbox, ostensibly from "System Administrator," with a return
postmark icon instead of the usual envelope icon, and with a subject
beginning with "Undeliverable." Since Outlook considers this a "Report" and
not a "Message," I cannot check the headers to see if this is legitimately
from Exchange.

Also, I've been receiving many other returned e-mails from outside my network.

Please note that in both cases the subjects would imply that the original
e-mail was spam and not something I'd intended to send out.

What I'd like to determine is (1) are these messages/reports from my System
Administrator legitimate or are they spoofed?, and (2) is some worm or
malware sending out spam from within my SBS 2003 network, or is some spammer
out there using an address from my domain as their "From"?

Hopefully these questions are not out of the scope of this newsgroup.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
--
Jim Angiello
Steadfast Builders, Inc.

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poll system call

The select() and poll() methods can be a powerful tool when you’re multiplexing network sockets. Specifically, these methods will indicate when a procedure will be safe to execute on an open file descriptor without any delays. For instance, a programmer can use these calls to know when there is data to be read on a socket. By delegating responsibility to select() and poll(), you don’t have to constantly check whether there is data to be read. Instead, select() and poll() can be placed in the background by the operating system and woken up when the event is satisfied or a specified timeout has elapsed. This process can significantly increase execution efficiency of a program. (If you are more concerned with performance than portability, we discuss some alternatives to select() and poll()toward the end of the article.)

As you will see, select() and poll() are very similar in functionality. Often, implementations of select() and poll() are mapped onto each other. For instance, in theApache Portable Runtime, a core component of Apache 2.0, a portable interface is provided that mimics the poll() semantics. On platforms that do not have a native poll()implementation, the poll() semantics are mapped onto select(). On FreeBSD, the libc_r implementation of select() is merely a thin wrapper around the poll() system call.

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jah shaka sound system

Jah Shaka has been operating a London-based, roots reggae Jamaican sound system since the early 1970s. His name is an amalgamation of the Rasta term for God and that of a Zuluwarrior, Shaka Zulu.

He started out on the Freddie Cloudburst Sound System, before setting up his own sound system. Jah Shaka events are renowned for attracting a wide audience from all backgrounds and races. Shaka believes it to be a testament to the quality of the message that he expounds in his choice of music and his Rastafarian beliefs.

Shaka stayed true to his Rastafarian beliefs during the 1980s when many other Sound Systemshad started to follow the Jamaican trend towards playing "slack" dancehall music. His refusal to compromise inspired a host of new UK reggae artists and Sound Systems such as Eastern Sher, The Disciples, Iration Steppas, Jah Warrior, Channel One Sound System, Conscious Sounds, The Rootsman and Abashanti-I. Non-reggae artists such as Basement Jaxx have also cited Jah Shaka as an influence during interviews.

On his own record label he has released music from Jamaican artists such as Max Romeo,Johnny Clarke, Bim Sherman and Prince Alla as well as UK groups such as Aswad and Dread & Fred. He has released a number of dub albums, often under the Commandments of Dub banner.

In 1980 Shaka played himself in the film Babylon (directed by Franco Rosso), operating his Sound System in a soundclash at the climax of the story. In 1989 Shaka visited Jamaica and worked with many musicians there, including King Tubby. In 2000 he suffered numerous injuries during a house fire.

The Jah Shaka Sound System continues to appear regularly in London, with occasional tours of the United States, Europe and Japan. Live footage of Shaka featured in the documentary All Tomorrow's Parties based on the musical festival, which was released in 2009.

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mail archiving system

If you're an IT manager, email admin, storage administrator or in-house attorney, you're probably grappling with how to manage email and file stores that are growing exponentially. New discovery and privacy requirements are forcing you to both know what you have and retrieve it quickly. Building a consensus on what you should do and actually doing it can be difficult.

At this seminar with independent experts Mark Diamond and Greg Forest of Contoural (or Mark Davies and Matt Jeavons in London), find out how an email and file archiving strategy can help you deal with the issues resulting from the explosive data growth and new discovery and data management requirements. Learn how you can reduce storage, quickly respond to litigation and compliance problems, increase IT productivity and reduce backup and restore times. You will hear case studies that relate what can happen if you ignore email archiving best practices, as well as see the cost savings and e-discovery benefits of proper file archiving.

Join us for this FREE seminar to find out what you need to know before designing and deploying an email and file archiving strategy!

Admission is FREE but seating is limited. Apply Now .

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system.workflow.activities

How to Write a Custom Workflow Activity

Published on January 25, 2007

Normally writing a custom workflow is a common task in Windows Workflow Foundation because there are many situations that we need to apply a development process to workflows. There are several references about writing a custom workflow but I see many newbies who can't understand the process easily. In my opinion the reason is most resources try to talk about all aspects of writing a custom activity at a glance without simple examples. So I want to test my chance and write about this topic in this post and some future posts. I'll begin with a simple custom activity which doesn't have any optional or advanced part of a custom activity.

There are two general types of custom activities: basic and composite. Both basic and composite activities can work with properties, events and ... but composite activities can do something more. Composite activities can contain basic or composite activities. There are some examples of basic and composite activities in built-in workflow activities. Delay or Suspend are two examples of basic activities and While or Parallel are two examples of composite activities.

It's possible to write a custom basic activity or composite activity but process to write a composite activity is a bit longer than basic activity.

Each activity is constructed of some components but for an activity it's not essential to have all these components:

• Definition: Main definition for an activity where you define properties, events and ...
• Executer: This component defines the execution logic for an activity. For example you can use this component to run child activities in a special order.
• Validator: Validator components helps you to validate workflow information before runtime so it can let you to prevent from some exceptions as a result of wrong input.
• Toolbox Item: This component defines default values to be added to a workflow when it's being added to workflow. For example you can use this component to set a default integer value for a property.
• Designer: Designer component is all about visual presentation of a workflow and what you see when you're working with it.

Only first component (Definition) is required for an activity to work but usually other components are implemented for an activity. As you can guess from above description it's not always necessary to have an execution logic, validation logic, default values or a good visual presentation so you can ignore these components based on your needs.

In this post I just want to introduce the core by giving a simple example that only needs first and second components (Definition and Executer). I write a custom workflow activity that gets two string values: a file path a text. On execution it creates a text file and writes text value into it. Before doing anything I create a Class Library project and add appropriate references to it then create a new class file and name it CustomActivity

Alright, I begin with definition component. To design a custom activity I have to derive my definition from a base class. For basic activities I must inherit it from System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Activity and for composite activities I must inherit from System.Workflow.ComponentModel.CompositeActivity base classes. As I want to design a base activity, derive my class from

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raid system recovery

With over 20 years of data recovery experience and nearly 200 data recovery engineers worldwide, Kroll Ontrack^® has the capacity and technical expertise required to solve complex RAID recoveries. Chat live now

Hard drive data recovery becomes more complicated when a failed drive is part of a RAID array making RAID data recovery one of the most technically challenging types of data recovery.

Kroll Ontrack, as a division of a large corporation, is able to provide unmatched resources and proprietary technology to offer full RAID recovery services, which many data recovery providers can not offer.

With the Ontrack Data Recovery pre-service data recovery evaluation, you’ll know exactly what data you’ll get back before making decisions to proceed with a RAID recovery service.

RAID Recovery Capabilities

Ontrack Data Recovery services utilize advanced data recovery tools and techniques to repair, recover and rebuild inaccessible data from all types of RAID systems and situations:

• Any RAID level, RAID controller or RAID architecture
• Any hard drive type, make or model
• All causes of data loss - recover data from simple, to the most complex and catastrophic, data loss situations - including viruses, natural disasters, accidental deletion, system crashes, corruption, hardware failure and more

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• Remote Data Recovery Services - If a RAID or SAN has only one drive failed, our remote data recovery service is the fastest, most convenient and cost effective solution for recovering data.
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• On-Site Data Recovery Services - In cases where severe, large-scale data loss occurs or moving storage media would require too much downtime - performing data recovery procedures right at your facility may be the best option.

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cbl spam block

Which is the best email spam filter software and block list? As a person who logs online more than anything else, my email account is constantly being bombarded with spam emails. I receive an average of 100 – 200 spam mails per day, not even the mighty Gmail can stop them from entering my inbox.

Based on many years of experience, I’ve discovered the best way to filter out spam on a email hosting server is CBL Spam Block, as for those using Microsoft Outlook, Spamihilator is the best, not perfect but good enough to filter out 98% of spam mails.

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greymail spam

Running the Grey Mail Gauntlet

Thursday, June 14, 2007 at 8:19am by Schalk Cronjé

A while ago over at Security Insights, McAfee CTO Chris Bolin blogged about grey spam. As far as content-based analysis goes, it is a tricky area for anti-spam vendors.

Mass email can roughly be categorised into three groups:

• Real spam: the dubious pills, the get-rich-quick scams, phishing, etc. Everyone hates that, but if you have a good anti-spam solution in place you should end up seeing a very small percentage of what was sent to you.
• Mass-marketing mail: the kind of stuff your bank sends out to each one of its customers. Some of that is useful; some of it you might not care about. Usually if you ask, your bank will stop emailing you.
• Grey-mail spam: This lies somewhere between the top two. This is the stuff that cannot really be classified as spam. They have valid email addresses and even valid telephone numbers. But it doesn’t matter to you; these emails are just irritating. You really don’t want any of them.

For vendors providing anti-spam solutions, grey mail is a difficult thing to tackle. Any attempt to add too many detection rules risks false positives for good sites like Amazon. It might even place the vendor at risk for legal action from some marketing companies. This makes this form of spam very attractive to many unscrupulous mass-mailing marketeers; they’re willing to run the grey-mail gauntlet.

Don’t get me wrong: I think email marketing has its place and that it can be a very powerful tool, but it should be done ethically. There are many mail-marketing firms that play by the rules, but they can get a bad name because of the bigger group that simply doesn’t care, as long as they can make a few bucks.

To a great extent, remediation for grey spam falls outside the scope of a content-analysis engine. Although the latter can help, it needs input from the customer. Only the cutomer can determine what is unwanted and what is allowed in this case: one person’s spam is another person’s ham. Chris has listed a number of things you can do to protect yourself, but if you are already receiving grey mail, here are two good techniques for combating this:

• Blacklists
• Bayesian

Blacklists: Because grey spam tends to have a defined structure, known sender email addresses, etc., you can use blacklists. These blacklists should be created and updated by the customer and not the vendor.

Bayesian: Spam filtering might be another solution, but the problem is that it needs to be trained correctly. The training itself might be too much work for the ordinary home user. Luckily some email clients do a good job of making it easier for a person to use.

Handling false positives: Normally content rules will receive rigorous testing to avoid false positives. When customers introduce blacklists or Bayesian techniques, they are creating custom content rules. As these rules will be ad-hoc, there is a higher chance for false positives. To help with this issue, some form of quarantine system needs to be introduced. The single person at home or in a small company with fewer than 10 employees might use the rules-and-folders functionality in a decent email client to handcraft a solution. However, for any company with a large number of employees, something more structured is required. McAfee offers the product Quarantine Manager to complement some of its other mail-product offerings.

Expect to read more postings on this topic from some of my colleagues at Avert Labs.

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system administrator spam

Spam on Mailman Lists

To reduce or eliminate spam on mailing lists when using Mailman

The following steps will do two things in mailman:

1. Discard any message from an email name that does not end in "virginia.edu". (The admin of the list can optionally get a notice of all discarded messages.
2. Hold all other messages for the administrator to approve. The burden on the administrator is that s/he must approve all messages posted to the list, including those from members. But this will keep all spam (including the ones with spoofed email IDs) from going out to all members of your list. (This solution might be good for low-traffic lists where letting any spam through causes problems, perhaps by annoying a lot of people or some important people.)

What to do in the mailman admin interface:

1. Under "Privacy options..." choose "Sender Filters".
2. The first item (for the value default_member_moderation) should be set to "yes".
3. On the same page, find the item: List of non-member addresses whose postings will be immediately held for moderation. In the box, enter this regular expression: ^.*virginia\.edu$
4. On the same page, for the next to the last item (generic_nonmember_action), set this to "Discard".
5. On the same page, for the last item, set this to "yes" if the admin wants to get emails with each message from those that are automatically discarded because they are not from a "virginia.edu" address. (Might be a reasonable thing to do if there is a chance that a legitimate message from outside virginia.edu will come to the list.)
6. Click "Submit your Changes".
7. At the top of the page, choose "Membership Management".
8. At the bottom of the page, for the option "Set everyone's moderation bit, including those members not currently visible", click "yes" and then hit the "Set" button.

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postmaster spam

This complaint has a multitude of variations but we tend to label the problem as “postmaster spam”.

Simply put, postmaster spam is any spam email that comes from a postmaster email address, whether it is the postmaster for your own domain or for someone else’s domain.

The postmaster address performs a critical role in email communication and its presence and use is prescribed in the RFCs for the SMTP protocol.

“Any system that includes an SMTP server supporting mail relaying or delivery MUST support the reserved mailbox “postmaster” as a case-insensitive local name.”

…and…

“SMTP systems are expected to make every reasonable effort to accept mail directed to Postmaster from any other system on the Internet.”

Who is the Postmaster?

The postmaster address is usually the source (or “from”) address for system generated emails such as non-delivery reports, although some email servers allow a different address to be used.

But this common usage, combined with the RFC requirements, creates a series of problems. Spammers know that the postmaster@ email address is almost always going to be valid, and email servers often treat email from postmaster@ email addresses as more trusted.

Postmaster Forgeries

One way in which spammers try to exploit this is by forging the sender address of spam to make it appear that it is coming from a postmaster@ address for a well known domain name. This is an effective technique because most email users have received genuine NDRs in the past and have at least some idea that a postmaster@ address is valid and trustworthy.

Because the human element of this exploit is so weak the best defence against this technique is to detect and block the spam before it reaches the intended victim. Anti-spam techniques such as connection filtering, content filtering, and Bayesian filtering are effective in stopping this.

Backscatter Spam

Another way spammers create “postmaster spam” is by causing NDRs, also known as backscatter spam. With this method a spammer will send email with forged sender addresses to various email systems, and when it is sent to non-existent addresses the receiving server sends back a NDR from their postmaster@ address to the forged sender address.

The person whose email address was used as the forged email address then receives the NDR, usually along with the original spam content attached or embedded. This technique is often successful because email systems don’t want to block important non-delivery reports.

Some anti-spam products specifically include protection for this type of NDRbackscatter spam through a combination of technologies. There is also an emerging technique appearing in some products that uses a header tag for all outgoing email. When an NDR comes back from an external source it can be checked for that tag. If it exists and matches a known email that was sent, then the NDR can be trusted and allowed back in to the email system. If the header tag does not exist then it is likely that the email originated elsewhere, probably from a spammer, and can be considered less trustworthy and subject to different filtering rules.

Other Postmaster Problems

The two problems that are mentioned above mostly impact end users, those who we are trying to protect from spam threats.

But another issue also exists, and that is spam addressed to the postmaster@ address itself. Because of the importance of the postmaster as prescribed in the RFC it is common for it to be exempt from any form of filtering or protection, to ensure it receives 100% of important email addressed to it.

Fortunately although this opens the door to spammers, the postmaster@ mailbox is usually only accessed by experienced administrators who are less likely to be tricked into opening spam or clicking on a phishing link. And in extreme cases the RFC does permit blocking of particularly bad sources of spam to the postmaster@ address.

And for our customers we are able to prescribe quality solutions to the problem of postmaster spam by implementing effective anti-spam systems on their networks.

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spam analysis

Spam Analyse your newsletter

Welcome to Spam Analyse. Email-marketing can be an excellent practice for both large and small organisations to market themselves in a fast and affordable manner. Newsletters are particularly powerful ways that can complement your marketing strategy and help meet your organisation's objectives.

Many email newsletters however are now ending up in spam and junk folders of popular domains such hotmail, yahoo, gmail and many more. The growth of spam email has resulted in increasingly sophisticated spam filters. Over 30% of your mailings could possibly be classed as spam and be unread by your customer. Attention must be paid to the coding, content and the structure of your newsletter to ensure it does not end up as spam.

Spam analyse is a application built to check if your email newsletter is spam filter friendly. Also check out ourarticles on the latest spam findings.

Simply take the coding from your html or text based newsletter and paste it in the box below for an instant spam analysis report of your newsletter..

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maia spam

Content Overview Integrating Amavisd-New with Postfix Installing Amavisd-New Configuring Amavisd-New Quarantine Handling Globally Sender whitelists and blacklists Per-Recipient Sender Whitelists and Blacklists (Maia Mailguard) Maia Installing and Configuration Configure Postfix for Amavisd-New ClamAV Virus Scanning Sender Policy Framework SPF Overview Postfix is a mail transport agent written by security researcher Wietse Venema. Not surprisingly, Postfix is designed from the ground up to be a highly secure system. It consists of several components, each of which runs with least privilege and none of which trust data from the other without validating it themselves. Despite the extensive security emphasis in the system's architecture, Postfix is capable of very good performance in normal conditions; because of architectural decisions, it is also fault tolerant and capable of good performance under adverse conditions such as resource starvation. Postfix supports three content inspection methods, ranging from light-weight one-line-at-a-time scanning before mail is queued, to heavy duty machinery that does sophisticated content analysis after mail is queued. Each approach serves a different purpose. The method shown in this article inspects mail AFTER it is stored in the queue, and uses standard protocols such as SMTP. After-queue inspection allows you to use content filters of arbitrary complexity without causing timeouts while receiving mail, and without running out of memory resources under a peak load. The SpamAssassin system is software for analyzing email messages, determining how likely they are to be spam, and reporting its conclusions. It is a rule-based system that compares different parts of email messages with a large set of rules. Each rule adds or removes points from a message's spam score. A message with a high enough score is reported to be spam. Amavisd-New is a high-performance and reliable interface between mailer (MTA) and one or more content checkers: virus scanners, and SpamAssassin. It is written in Perl, assuring high reliability, portability and maintainability. It talks to MTA via (E)SMTP or LMTP, or by using helper programs. No timing gaps exist in the design, which could cause a mail loss. It is normally positioned at or near a central mailer, not necessarily where user's mailboxes and final delivery takes place. When calling of Mail::SpamAssassin (SA) is enabled, it calls SA only once per message (regardless of the number of recipients), and tries very hard to correctly honour per-recipient preferences, such as pass/reject, and inserting spam-related mail header fields.

Integrating Amavisd-New with Postfix This article does not explain how to install and setup Postfix / SpamAssassin, this is explained here: Postfix -- the Sendmail Replacement Fighting Spam with SpamAssassin and Postfix If you want to set up a spam-checking gateway for all recipients, local or not, you need a way to perform spam-checking as mail is received, before final delivery. Postfix provides a general-purpose filtering directive called content_filter. The content_filter directive specifies a mail transport that Postfix will invoke after receiving a message. The mail transport hands the message to a filtering program. The filter checks the message and then either refuses it (which will cause Postfix to generate a bounce message), discards it, or reinjects the modified message into Postfix for further delivery. Messages that pass the filter are reinjected so that Postfix can operate on them almost as if they were new messages; this allows Postfix to behave properly if the content filter rewrites message headers.

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global software piracy

The Economic Benefits of Reducing PC Software Piracy
A Report by IDC, January 2008
Sponsored by the Business Software Alliance®

Reducing software piracy could create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, billions in information technology (IT) spending and economic growth, and new tax revenues to support local services.

A study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and conducted independently by International Data Corporation (IDC) finds that while all countries could benefit from reducing the use of illegal software on personal computers (PC), high-piracy emerging economies could experience the most dramatic, positive impacts.

“The Economic Benefits of Reducing PC Software Piracy” looks at the bottom line economic benefits of reducing piracy in 42 countries that together account for more than 90 percent of global IT spending in 2007. The study is designed to quantify the economic benefits to domestic economies that could be gained from a ten percentage point reduction in PC software piracy over a four year period, from 2008-2011.

“When countries take steps to reduce software piracy, everyone benefits,” said Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of BSA. “With more and better job opportunities, a stronger, more secure business environment, and greater economic contributions from the dynamic and robust IT sector, reducing software piracy is one way for governments to deliver tangible benefits to local economies.”

Scott & Scott, LLP is a business and technology law firm that helps businesses aggressively protect their intellectual property, understand and comply with applicable laws and regulations, litigate and resolve disputes, and consummate complicated business transactions. Our clients include leaders in the following industries: energy, professional services, insurance, media, manufacturing, technology, financial services, retail, healthcare, and real estate. Our legal and technology professionals have the proven talent to solve complex business issues. We take the time to understand our clients’ businesses, while remaining focused on providing value.


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software distributorship

What is really a Software Distributorship?

This is right place to learn about Software Distributorship. We expect to explain for all software developers what is role of computer software distributorship in their company model.

You possibly can get your computer software distributorship via Internet, retailer, etc. It depends on your company model and you need to look for assist to get so many sells and contracts as possible.

Do you wanna earn so much funds selling your computer software? So you really should make deal with a good software package distributorship firm - big companies can spread out your computer software, reaching audiences in Africa, Asia, Europa, Americas, Oceania or even Antartida (what, is it probable? :-) )!

You might be asking yourself: who is he? Why is he talking about it?

My name is Christiano, I am a computer software developer - a game developer, to be far more exact/specific. And I have realized that a lot of developers, like me, have problems to identify better methods to sell and delivery their softwares. So now, I decided to talk about this subject and, if that you are smart - and you happen to be, otherwise, you wouldn't be here, reading it now ;-) - you'll listen my words. You possibly can not believe me, you're free to read and, later, decide if what I talk is interesting or not, ok?

How a software distributorship can aid your IT company

Software distributorship gives a set of resources for generating deals that could set up software on a system. The packages could be grouped together into a computer software repository called a depot, plus a server might be configured to host many depots for installation of personal computer software packages too as total devices.

Numerous massive players in the application distribution small business have complied many way to distribute pc application utilizing configurations and management systems.

Computer software distribution was first readily accessible in 1995. Since then it has undergone various enhancements alterations, and now offers a trusted application avenue for major computer software package organizations either official distributions through the makers on the application, or 3rd party distributions.

Notable is the reality that one making use of such 3rd party distributions will have to turn for the distribution maker for service, the developers of the actual application getting distributed normally tend not to present aid for 3rd party distributions of their software package.

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software piracy in china

Software Piracy Still Big in Asia

Industry group estimates $1.19 billion in lost sales of games software.

Software piracy remains a multibillion dollar industry in Asia, but some signs of improvement are surfacing in the 14 Asian countries being most closely surveyed, according to the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA).

Although its figures are not complete, IIPA estimates that 2003 losses from piracy of entertainment software will reach $1.19 billion in China, India, South Korea, and Taiwan. But piracy losses sharply decreased from the previous year in South Korea (down 35 percent) and Taiwan (down 56 percent).

China Singled Out

The largest software piracy losses occur in China, where entertainment software alone was pirated to the value of $568 million last year, according to IIPA. China's piracy rate remains at 96 percent--of all software sold, only 4 percent is legitimately licensed. China's efforts to combat piracy remain under a special U.S. trade monitoring procedure known as Section 306, IIPA representatives say.

Six more Asian countries--India, Indonesia, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand--remain on IIPA's priority watch list for the high losses due to piracy and high rates of piracy. Malaysia is by itself in a watch list category, while Cambodia, Hong Kong, Laos, Singapore, and Vietnam are also mentioned as being monitored.

Additionally, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative along with several other countries, as making insufficient efforts to crack down on piracy of music and film.

Business Count Pending

Losses due to entertainment software piracy is estimated to represent about just one-quarter of piracy losses, with the balance coming from piracy of business software, which totaled $2.67 billion in 2002. IIPA has not yet estimated the 2003 figure for business software losses, but only Taiwan and Singapore recorded piracy rates of under 50 percent in 2002.

The IIPA released the figures as part of its Special 301 recommendations. Special 301 is an annual review process under U.S. trade law which requires the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to identify countries that fail to stem piracy, opening such countries to possible U.S. trade sanctions.

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software escrow companies

When you contract out for software to be written for you, there are several decisions that are part of the process. One that's often overlooked is whether or not you get a copy of the source code when the project is done.

The source code is the collection of written instructions that the programmer actually writes to create a program. For many types of programs, the source code is then transformed into the "executable" that you actually run. For example "notepad.exe" is a executable program that comes with Windows. Somewhere back at Microsoft they keep the written instructions, or source code, that the programmers used to create it.

Open source software projects make the source code publicly accessible. Anyone with enough knowledge can create the software executable using the source code. Closed source, or "proprietary" software is just the opposite ... the source code is not available publicly, only the executable. Companies use this approach to retain their intellectual property, and trade secrets.

When you contract with someone to write software for you one decision, implied or explicit, is whether the source code belongs exclusively to the developer, or whether you get a copy. If you do, you have the safety of being able to have someone else make changes or fix bugs in the future, but the developer is giving up some of his or her potential control of that software. If the developer retains the source code and you don't have access to it, then you are dependant on the developer for all future updates. Typically developers will charge more if you get the source code.

It's common to opt for the cheaper option, or to have the developer simply not give you the option.

So what happens if your developer goes out of business? What if all of the source code simply disappears?

That's where software or source code escrow comes into play.

As part of arranging for your software to be written, you and the developer can agree that a copy of the source code will be given to a neutral third party - an escrow agent. The agreement would then specify under which conditions that agent would be allowed to release the source code to you. For example one of the conditions might be the developer's bankruptcy or going out of business for other reasons. By using software escrow, the developer is protected as long as it makes sense for them to retain control, and you are protected should the developer disappear. (Naturally other conditions might trigger the release, but the developer's going out of business is a clear example.)

Software escrow is not fool proof. For example, what happens if the escrow agent goes away? And escrow typically adds some cost to your transaction.

But I think of it as an insurance policy.

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consequences of software piracy

What Are the Consequences of Software Piracy?

By , eHow Contributor

Copyright infringement of software, commonly referred to as software piracy, is the act of buying, selling or trading stolen copies of programs. If you are caught, the consequences of software piracy can be dire.

About Software Piracy

1. Software piracy is a violation of copyright and a form of theft. You are guilty of piracy when you illegally download a copy of a pirated program and when you offer or sell copies to others, regardless of whether they profit from the sales.

Monetary Consequences

2. Federal law allows software publishers to sue individuals found with pirated software for statutory damages, ranging between $500 to $100,000 for each pirated program they possess. Restitution costs could reach millions of dollars.

Punitive Consequences

3. Individuals who distribute or sell copies of pirated software can face up to five years in prison.

Personal Consequences

4. In addition to penalties and prison sentences, consumers can unknowingly put their at risk by installing pirated software that contains malware, viruses and other malicious software that can jeopardize the owner's machine and sensitive data.

Consumer Consequences

5. As the popularity of software piracy continues to increase, software publishers are turning to honest consumers to cover the costs. Consumers pay an estimated $15 more toward publishers' recovery costs for every $100 spent purchasing software.

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software piracy act

DON’T BE A PIRATE!

What is Software Piracy?

Software piracy is the unauthorized use or distribution of software.

You participate in the unauthorized use or distribution of TopScore Pro® if you LEND, GIVE, COPY or SELL the software to anyone without our permission. You do not OWN the software. You are granted a nonexclusive right to USE the software for a specific period of time.

ScholarWare takes software piracy very seriously. Because our product is beneficial to its users only once (unlike other programs such as Microsoft Word), we especially depend upon recurring revenue to make advances in our product. Just because you do not "need" the software anymore, DOES NOT entitle you to pirate the software.

Why shouldn't I use pirated or pirate software? Who am I hurting?

There are several reasons not to use pirated or pirate software.

1. It's illegal and there is liability on your part. (See Liability for Piracy below)
2. It's risky. If the software is from an unauthorized source, you could be getting a program that is not fully functional. Each TopScore Pro® CD-ROM expires on a predetermined date which is unknown to the user. You don’t want an expired product.
3. There won't be another version of the software if there is no revenue to put back into research and development. This revenue has made the product affordable to legitimate users.
4. It isn't ethical. Or we like to say "doing the right thing when no one is looking." Understand that this product is introduced at a very affordable price and provides tremendous benefit to preprofessional (predental/preoptometry) students. Ask yourself how you would feel if your life's work went without compensation? Start now and be an ethical professional.

LIABILITY FOR PIRACY

What are the fines for being caught with or participating in pirated software?

At ScholarWare we report software pirates and prosecute them. We take it seriously.

If sued for civil copyright infringement, the penalty is up to $100,000 per title infringed. If charged with a criminal violation, the fine is up to $250,000 per title infringed and up to five years imprisonment.

What proof do we need to show that you have purchased our software?
Anti-Piracy requires positive proof that all software has been purchased to demonstrate copyright compliance. The best documentation substantiating authorized purchases include approved purchase orders, invoices, customer receipts, and/or cancelled checks. Other documentation provided by the company may be acceptable. Normally, original media (CD-ROM's, diskettes, manuals, etc.) are not accepted documentation.

The Law in the United States
Software is automatically protected by federal copyright law from the moment of its creation. The rights granted to the owner of a copyright (ScholarWare) are clearly stated in the Copyright Act, Title 17 of the US Code. The Act gives the owner of the copyright "the exclusive rights" to "reproduce the copyrighted work" and "to distribute copies ... of the copyrighted work" (Section 106). It also states that "anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner ... is an infringer of the copyright" (Section 501), and sets forth several penalties for such conduct. Those who purchase a license for a copy of software do not have the right to make additional copies without the permission of the copyright owner, except (i) copy the software onto a single computer and (ii) make "another copy for archival purposes only," which are specifically provided in the Copyright Act (Section 117). The license accompanying TopScore Pro® does not allow additional copies to be made outside of Title 17; be sure to review our End User License Agreement carefully.

Software creates unique problems for copyright owners because it is easy to duplicate, and the copy is usually as good as the original. This fact, however, does not make it legal to violate the rights of the copyright owner. The unauthorized duplication of software constitutes copyright infringement regardless of whether it is done for sale, for free distribution, or for the copier's own use. Moreover, copiers are liable for the resulting copyright infringement whether or not they knew their conduct was in breach of the law. Penalties include liability for damages suffered by the copyright owner plus any profits of the infringer that are attributable to the copying.

It has always been illegal to rent unauthorized copies of software. Concern over the fact that the rental of authorized or "original" software frequently resulted in the creation of pirated software led Congress to enact the Software Rental Amendments Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-650). This law prohibits the rental, leasing, or lending of original copies of any software without the express permission of the copyright owner.

Software Piracy is just not worth it!

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crossftp server

CrossFTP Server is a secure enabled FTP Server for multiple platforms. It offers a high-performance, easy configurable, and most of all a secure enabled FTP server. Versatile GUI is provided for the novice users' start-up, and the advanced users' configuration as well.

Want the commercial support?

Here lists some of its main features:

Features

1. Free, open-source FTP server.
2. Multi platform support and multithreaded design.
3. UTF-8 directory encoding for internationalization support.
4. User virtual directory, write permission, idle time-out and upload/download bandwidth limitation support.
5. You can monitor all the user activities.
6. Anonymous login support.
7. Both upload and download files are resumable.
8. Handles both ASCII and binary data transfers.
9. IP restriction support to allow/ban IPs.
10. Database and LDAP can be used to store user data.
11. All the FTP messages are customizable.
12. Implicit/explicit SSL/TLS support.
13. MDTM support - your users can query the date-time stamp of files.
14. "MODE Z" support for faster data upload/download.
15. Easy installation/update by Java Web Start technology.
16. Bonjour discovery protocol support.

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snap server recovery

Snap Server Recovery

We have worked with large and small businesses, government agencies, law enforcement and universities to restore Snap Server data across the nation. If you have already tried to rebuild your Snap Server, but still can't access your data, you should stop now.

Of the various types of Snap Server failures, these are the most common 'do-it-yourself' failures which most companies experience when attempting to restore a corrupted Snap Server array:

• Forcing a rebuild.
  This will only increase the odds that your data loss is permanent. These types of Snap Server failures require specialized training, software and equipment.
• Off the shelf recovery software.
  Even if you are using Snap Server utilities or recovery software, unless you are experienced with the nauances of a performing a Snap Server server data recovery and have sucessfully restored data or rebuilt arrays, these Snap Server repair software packages can potentially cause more damage.
  

To reduce the chances that your data is completely lost, you will need professional Snap Server recovery services. A Snap Server data recovery specialist should have thorough knowledge of Snap Server configurations, drive structures, MFT mount points, HEX, and offsets to avoid destroying data while attempting a recovery.

The safest thing you could do at this point is contact a Snap Server recovery specialist to have an image of the hard drive made, evaluate the damage and begin the process to recover data from the hard drive.

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arnewood class server

Top 4 Download periodically updates software information of arnewood class server full versions from the publishers, but some information may be slightly out-of-date.

STUDYWIZ

is Arnewood's Learning Platform or VLE. It is somewhere that staff can set homework and classwork activities for students, as well as making resources available to students. Students can hand in work to teachers using , as well as working in groups with other students on a piece of work. Parents can log on and see what homework has been set, as well as looking at the discussions and activities completed in class. Here is a list of Quick Start Guides:

Using warez version, crack, warez passwords, patches, serial numbers, registration codes, key generator, pirate key, keymaker or keygen for arnewood class server license key is illegal. Download links are directly from our mirrors or publisher's website, arnewood class server torrent files or shared files from free file sharing and free upload services, including Rapidshare, MegaUpload, YouSendIt, Letitbit, DropSend, MediaMax, LeapFile, MyOtherDrive or MediaFire, are not allowed!

Your computer will be at risk getting infected with spyware, adware, viruses, worms, trojan horses, dialers, etc while you are searching and browsing these illegal sites which distribute a so called keygen, key generator, pirate key, serial number, warez full version or crack for arnewood class server. These infections might corrupt your computer installation or breach your privacy. arnewood class server keygen or key generator might contain a trojan horse opening a backdoor on your computer.

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1000 mbps port dedicated server

Okay, so I’m upgrading my dedicated server for a small game I host, a private server of course.

Right now these are my specs:

Memory 2 GB DDR2 667
Processor Single Processor Quad Core Opteron 1354 – 2.20GHz – 2 x 1MB cache
Operating System Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2 with R2 (64 bit)
VPN Management – Private Network SSL VPN Management
Uplink Port Speed 1000 Mbps Public & Private Networks

I asked my host how much of the 1000mbps power I get, and they replied I only get around 80% of that speed.

Okay so I wanna upgrade! I hate my host they’re so overpriced.

So I found this host here are the specs:

Dual Intel Xeon 3.06Ghz CPUs
4GB RAM, 160 GB SATA Drive
Unlimited Bandwidth [100MBit Port]

Okay the 100mbit port throws me off because my other host is 800mbps (80%). Which host would be better and no lag for my game? Currently I have no lag except when I reach around 440 players my server starts to lag I’m guessing it is the dedicated server or the port speed I do not know… but I need to upgrade!

So which dedicated server should I get and what is the differences between the two internet port speeds, 100mbit and 800mbps, which is faster?

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neverwinter nights 2 dedicated server

This program is used to copy the portion of the files needed to run a dedicated server to a new folder which you can upload to your server. A dedicated server is not used to play the game, but rather to host a networked game which is played by users with normal copies of the game. This folder must then be copied somehow to your server. The advantage is files that are needed by server are all moved for you, ignoring files that are only needed by a player, which results in a very small total file size. The actual files themselves are the exact same as those in your program directory, it merely copies them for you.

This process creates a very lightweight dedicated server install that is of use mostly if you have limited access to your server ( such as if it's remotely hosted). However, the actual dedicated server program itself is the same as the one we've had all along, so you can continue to use the setup that you have without any problems.

You will need to re-run the tool after each patch, to ensure that the dedicated server receives the same updates. The patcher only patches your actual install, and not rerunning can cause issues because of version differences.

Versions

Original Version was Released 10 August 2007. It had issues where it did not copy all the files. Users could copy the missing files to the folder that was created after this program is run. An updated version that corrects this problem was released on 25 April 2008.

Instructions

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• Run the "NWN2_DedicatedServerCreator.exe" that it contains on the machine with NWN2 installed on it.
• It says upon startup "Would you like to be able to host games based on the NWN2 Original Campaign? Selecting no will save approximately 2.8GB from your install, but you will be unable to start new games based on the NWN2 Original Campaign."

Yes should be selected if you want to host the OC.

No if you have your own module or PW that you are going to host. ( Without OC or MOTB install size is 41.2 MB )

• It says upon startup "Would you like to be able to host games based on the NWN2 Expansion: Mask of the Betrayer? Selecting no will save approximately 1.3GB from your install, but you will be unable to start new games based on the NWN2 Expansion: Mask of the Betrayer."

Yes should be selected if you want to host MOTB games.

Again select No if you have your own module or PW that you are going to host.

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