So, I have turned off the Windows Firewall, completely for all networks. And I wrote up a small client server program to check if my machine can take incoming connections. It is exact word to word on what is on this site, except I change the localhost to whatever : http://systembash.com/conten...

Is there any logical explanation for this output? I can understand all of the three different results, but all three in one single run of PING? Could my router be defective? I have no internet connection problems, just connection to other machine on my network. C:\PING 192.168.1.37 Pinging...

What is the best way to format a USB drive with FAT32 (for Mac compatibility) from within Windows 7/Vista? I ask because the Disk Management only lets you pick exFAT (because the disk is over 32GB I believe). Doing it from the command line with diskpart doesn't seem to work either.

I am thinking about centralizing my applications sessions on another separated servers in the cloud. Some have suggested I should use Memcached but I am not sure how well it scales on multiple servers... And I was also wandering if I should use a fallback DB like Cassandra or is that a overhead? ...