Technical Blog

Ever wonder what the terms segmentation and paging refer to? or heck, what is the difference between the two? Well you're not alone, many people out there are confused when it comes to these terms...

Let’s start by making sure we have a clear understanding about what exactly Paging and Segmentation is. We have tried to simplify this in a way which would be the easiest to understand.

One of the biggest problems we find in regards to networking, is properly understanding subnetting. The main thing to remember about subnets and IP addresses is that even though they’re displayed in decimal for our convenience, they’re based on binary math.

To get a true understanding of where some of the numbers in your IP subnetting formulas come from, you need to know how to convert an IP address like 192.168.112.29 into binary. If you have not studied decimal to binary coversion than we do recommend you understand this before proceeding.

Sometimes when working on a project you may find yourself utilizing the benefits of both Microsoft Access and Excel but require that the data in each be stored, sorted and queried from within Access. Well this can be achieved by linking the Access table with an existing Excel worksheet. To do so please follow these steps from within Microsoft Access:

1. Go to File
2. Click Get External Data
3. Click Link Tables
4. Navigate to the Excel file
5. Select the Worksheet
6. Click Next twice
7. Click Finished