LAN Times be based in San Mateo, California. The print publication was shuttered in 1999 and lantimes.com was redirected to networkcomputing.com LAN Times LAN Times was a print and online information journal dedicated to covering issues of technology and network computing, including local area network information. The publication was headquartered in San Mateo, California, and published print journals as well as online articles from 1988 to 1999. The publication featured an online help forum for network administrators, and published a variety of books on computer networking. It was published on a biweekly basis. It was published by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. until
Leech (computing) Leech (computing) In computing and specifically Internet, a leech is one who benefits, usually deliberately, from others' information or effort but does not offer anything in return, or makes only token offerings in an attempt to avoid being called a leech. In economics, this type of behavior is called "free riding" and is associated with the free rider problem. Depending on context, leeching does not necessarily refer to "illegal" use of computer resources, but often instead to "greedy" use according to etiquette: to wit, using too much of what is freely given without contributing a reasonable amount back to the