On MovieTome: WONDERCON 2008 Coverage
 
Live Webcast: Disaster Recovery Planning - Strategies and Tips
With the rise in information technology and the reliance on business-critical information, the importance of protecting irreplaceable data has become a more visible business priority in recent years. As a result, most companies are aware that they...
Webcast, 2008-03-19
Tags: Data Management, Disaster Recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, Webcast, Strategy
Free Sudoku 2008 (zip)
Our Free Sudoku 2008 is a fun puzzle game. This version is designed for those who are seeking to learn how to play Sudoku or for those that like a challenge with the high level. This is the coolest puzzle game on the Web, play, and fun. This version...
Software download, 2008-03-17
Tags: Fun, Games, Personal Technology
Real-time Remote Workforce Enablement
Cox Communications was looking for a way to deploy and manage the IT requirements of its decentralized customer support team comprised of over a hundred people. With only four IT staff designed to support the technical need of the customer support...
Case Study, 2008-03-21
Tags: Management, Hardware, Servers, Leadership, Virtual Server, Parallels Inc., Team Management, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Workforce, Cox Communications Inc.
Mod your computer keyboard, steampunk style
Mild-mannered IT manager by day, mad modding genius by night, Jake von Slatt demonstrates how to build a computer keyboard -- steampunk style. by Cara Reynolds...
Image gallery, 2008-03-18
Tags: steampunk workshop, jake von slatt, steampunk, mod, mods, keyboard, geekend, off topic
Live Webcast: Email archiving - Are you feeling lucky?
Businesses of all sizes are struggling with ever growing electronic information volume and content. Although email is not the only electronic information, it is by far the fastest growing both in volume and sensitivity. Not only are companies...
Webcast, 2008-03-20
Tags: Online Communications, E-mail, George, E-mail Archiving, Webcast, Google Inc.
Live Webcast: Data Loss Prevention: Protecting Your Organization Against Accidental Disclosures
E-mail is a vital communication tool and home to as much as 80% of your organization's records. Its mission-critical use represents a significant risk to your confidential information. Whether it's a small-scale embarrassment or major financial...
Webcast, 2008-03-20
Tags: TechRepublic Moderator James Hilliard, Security, Sophos Plc., Data Loss, Webcast
The Future of Work: How to Prepare Your Business for the New Frontier
According to a recent study by IDC, nearly 75 percent of the U.S. workforce will be mobile by the end of 2011 - but research shows that businesses are not aligned with this trend due to a slow adoption rate of technologies that can make this...
Webcast, 2008-03-19
Tags: Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Citrix Systems Inc.
Offbeat laptop sleeves at Barry's Farm
Looking for a laptop sleeve that will turn heads at the office or at the local coffee bar on weekends? Barry's Farm has the wacky laptop sleeve market all sewn up. by Cara Reynolds...
Image gallery, 2008-03-17
Tags: sleeve, laptop, off topic, geekend
Cracking open the Osborne 1: The original portable computer
The Osborne 1 was the word's first self-contained portable personal computer. Many of the design decisions and innovations first seen in the Osborne 1 are still being used today some 25-plus years later. We could not resist taking a look inside this...
Image gallery, 2008-03-19
Tags: Cracking open, off topic, geekend, osborne1
Live Webcast: Enhancing Business Mobility with Pen Computing
For years pen-enabled computing devices have enjoyed great success and acceptance in highly vertical industries like delivery services, auditing and POS. The primary limitations of early pen computing devices, which were the hurdles to early...
Webcast, 2008-03-17
Tags: Webcast, Fujitsu Ltd., Notebooks & Tablets, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Tablets, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Computing, Mobility
Sanity check: If you're working on IT-business alignment, you've already lost
Last October, at a conference for IT managers and executives, I was chatting with George Spalding -- an ITIL expert from Pink Elephant -- about the popular concept of IT/business alignment. The fact that so many people in the IT field even talk...
Blog, 2008-03-17
Tags: Jason Hiner, Management, Strategy, Journal, IT/business, Business, Information Technology
Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology
This Parallels white paper is a valuable decision-support resource that offers guidance for evaluating competing server virtualization solutions. It opens with a review of the three types of virtualization technologies available today: hardware...
News, 2008-03-21
Tags: Storage, Hardware, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Servers, Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Parallels Inc.
Rundown: Geek movies of summer 2008
In movie industry terms, the "summer movie season" actually begins before summer, on the first weekend in May, and ends before summer, on the last weekend in August. There are 18 geek-centric major motion pictures scheduled for U.S. release in this...
Blog, 2008-03-17
Tags: Jay Garmon, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Emerging Technologies, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Robots, Movie, Anime, Film
A galaxy far, far, away comes to Brazil
The Star Wars Exhibit Museum opened on March 5 on the "Poro das Artes" at the Ibirapuera Park in So Paulo, where it will be until June 29.Children can take a course at the "Jedi Academy" (and face Darth Vader himself at the end) and adults can take...
Image gallery, 2008-03-18
Tags: off topic, Geekend, Star Wars, Photos
Windows Vista Service Pack 1
On March 18, 2008, Microsoft made Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available for general download via Windows Update. Here's what you can expect from the installation process. by Ed Bott...
Image gallery, 2008-03-18
Tags: SP1, screenshots, Windows Vista, Service Pack 1
Blu-ray BD+ completedly defeated
The mood over at Slysoft is that of exuberance as they announced version 6.4.0.0 of their AnyDVD HD product last week. With this version, it is now possible to make full copies of all Blu-ray discs with impunity. Already in November 2007, a beta...
Blog, 2008-03-24
Tags: Paul Mah, Home Entertainment, Backups, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, DVD, Blu-Ray, Hd Dvd, Van
Does work have to be fun?
I was bemoaning the fact the other day that the current extreme tightening of funds was essentially sucking the fun out of my current position when I was given this piece of advice - "The way to survive in our business is just to hunker down "there...
Blog, 2008-03-23
Tags: Leadership, Professional Development, Ramon Padilla, Management, Career, Strategy, Team Management, Bus Driver
The ten roles you need for ITIL configuration management
Many IT departments try to implement ITIL configuration management without giving very much thought to the staffing of the configuration management service. Many IT departments try to implement ITIL configuration management w Like any IT task,...
Blog, 2008-03-23
Tags: Larry Klosterboer, It Services, ITIL, Integrator Role, Configuration Management, Information Technology
The Big Brother Awards
In Montreal, Canada, at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in May 2007, Privacy International presented the first International Big Brother Awards. The "winners" of the Big Brother Awards are, in the words of Privacy International:...
Blog, 2008-03-22
Tags: Chad Perrin, Internet, Online Communications, Web Site Development, Government, Wiki, Wikipedia, ChoicePoint Inc., U.K., Privacy International, Nominee
Will you rent your next data center from HP?
Hewlett-Packard announced this week that it was launching a data center-as-a-service product -- which it calls Adaptive Infrastructure as a service -- that allows enterprise IT departments to essentially rent a data center from HP rather than buying...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Jason Hiner, Data Management, Hardware, Internet, Storage, Data Centers, Podcasts, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Center
Finding Easter Eggs in old software
One of most popular secular event in the celebration of the Easter holiday is the hunting of hidden Easter Eggs. Hidden by the Easter Bunny, or the Easter Beagle depending on your beliefs, Easter Eggs can be actual painted boiled eggs, or the little...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Software, John Sheesley, Easter Egg
Configure Snort to log packets to MySQL
Last week, we looked at setting up Snort, a Network Intrusion Detection System. Now we will look at configuring Snort to log packets to a remote MySQL server where a graphical Web interface can be used to view captured packets and statistics. To...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Snort, MySQL, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Vincent Danen
Latest Office articles from the Knowledgebase
There are a few new articles on Office from the Knowledgebase to report: Shortcuts for applications in the 2007 Office system are not generated in the designated location on a computer that is running Windows Vista: This one's for anyone using...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Microsoft Access, Knowledgebase, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Databases, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Susan Harkins
Fake Cisco kit may contain malware
Marketing counterfeit Cisco equipment is not breaking news by any means, as it has been an ongoing problem for Cisco and its resellers for years now. As evidence, check out this article for NetworkWorld by Brad Reese Giant counterfeit Cisco sale on...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Indictment, Michael Kassner, Cisco Systems Inc., Malware
When an online group becomes a force to be reckoned with
Last month, I told you about the Internet group "Anonymous" and their fight against Scientology (The Internet and IRL- have the lines blurred?). At the time, I don't think that I fully appreciated what impact an online group would have against an...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Anonymous, Scientology, Tricia Liebert
Wiki technology appearing all over the place
Wiki, a technology for online encyclopedias and other documentation, is beginning to find itself in some interesting places. A Stanford professor has proposed that wiki technology be used in Congress to help make the process more transparent. In...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Andy Moon, Online Communications, Wiki
Big winners in the airwave auction- Verizon and AT&T;
In the auction of the airwaves, two big winners came out on top, leaving Google phone in the dust. Verizon and AT&T combined to account of $16 billion of the 19.6 billion bid in the spectrum being vacated by the shift to digital by television...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Martin, Wireless, Auction, AT&T Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Tricia Liebert
Pic: Google naps
What happens when uber-rich engineers get to spec out their own "nap pods" for workday power-sleeping? You get these refugees from the set of Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Money. Just a reminder that not everything Google makes is...
Blog, 2008-03-21
Tags: Google Inc., Jay Garmon
Virtuozzo for Windows Capacity and Scaling
One of the keys to a successful virtualization project is the effective management of virtualized servers. Without proper optimization, your virtual infrastructure may experience performance and even stability issues. This white paper provides IT...
News, 2008-03-21
Tags: Storage, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Hardware, Utility Computing, Storage Management, Performance Management, Virtualization, Parallels Inc., Parallels Virtuozzo, Microsoft Windows
Deploying Application and OS Virtualization Together: Citrix and Parallels Virtuozzo Containers
As virtualization becomes more pervasive in the datacenter, organizations are deploying complementary types of virtualization technologies. Read this white paper to learn how blending application and OS virtualization using Citrix and Virtuozzo...
News, 2008-03-21
Tags: Hardware, Storage Management, OS Virtualization, Storage, Parallels Virtuozzo, Virtualization, Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Operating System, Citrix Systems Inc., Utility Computing
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