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Live Webcast: Getting to Microsoft Office 365: The Right Migration for Your Business
If you've been stuck using bare bones, web-based tools, you'll appreciate the full featured collaboration in MS Office 365. Check out this live webcast to learn more about Microsoft Office 365,...
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20 creative and inventive '404' website error pages
Another website error page? Broken link, or server problem? Here are 20 websites that have made their '404' error pages stand out from the crowd.
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Quick fix for Windows 7 SP1 installation errors
If you run Windows 7 and Linux on the same PC, you might run into an odd error when you try to install Windows 7 Service Pack 1. Here's the cause and the fix.
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US loses control of 50 nukes in cascading failure
One in nine of the American ICBM strike force went offline on Saturday, as a series of control errors multiplied beyond the ability of engineers to compensate, according to a report.
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The Hidden Costs of Re-Work
Most rework can be prevented. Given the impact that rework can have on profits, managers should take a close look at this important issue. In a slow-growth, low-margin business, even small...
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Note to Gray Powell (the guy who lost next-gen iPhone): Things will get better
The world is likely crumbling for Gray Powell, the 27-year-old software engineer who left a next-generation iPhone in a bar last month, but over time, things will get better.
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ZFS data integrity tested
File systems are supposed to protect your data, but most are 20-30 year old architectures that risk data with every I/O. The open source ZFS from Sun Oracle claims high data integrity - and now...
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RealPlayer haunted by 11 critical vulnerabilities
RealNetworks released an advisory to warn of the vulnerabilities, which could be exploited via rigged image and media files to launch remote code execution attacks.
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DRAM error rates: Nightmare on DIMM street
A two-and-a-half year study of DRAM on 10s of thousands Google servers found DIMM error rates are hundreds to thousands of times higher than thought -- a mean of 3,751 correctable errors per DIMM...
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Computer glitch caused plane's altitude drop
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has confirmed the sudden drop in altitude of a Qantas Flight 72 over Western Australia last year was due to a computer error.
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The psychological impact of false positives
False positives, or the act of marking legitimate content as being malicious, are an unfortunate but unavoidable consequence of rapid response security technologies. They are relatively rare,...
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NSA initiative pinpoints 25 Top coding errors
Governments likely to require vendors to address these most common errors.
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The spreadsheet love affair
I never thought I'd go on a tear about Excel in these pages, but Josh Greenbaum's correct assertion that Excel is pretty much everywhere and is probably the software industry's most successful...
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PHP delivers key patches
PHP Group delivered release 5.2.6 to fix multiple security vulnerabilities. The open source PHP Group outlined all of the changes and Secunia rated these vulnerabilities "moderately critical."...
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Movie tech comes home with Healthphone SaaS
The Lord of the Rings imaging technology we profiled in August is coming to market through a Software As A Service (SaaS) offering for visiting nurses called Healthphone.
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Amazon S3 web services down. Bad, bad news for customers.
Update 2/16/08, 2:30PM EST: Nick Carr wrote a good post-mortem. So did Larry Dignan. Update 2/16/08, 11:00AM EST: Amazon reports the cause of the problem: Early this morning, at 3:30am PST, we...
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Serious ATI bug makes Vista virtually unusable for some
Over the past few weeks I've been working on trying to isolate a problem between Windows Vista and ATI graphics cards where the display driver stops responding and sometimes recovers and sometimes...
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Guess what letter iPhone texters trip up on the most
It's this letter [at left]. But read on for the details about how this assertion was proved. Chicago-based usability consultancy UserCentric is out with a new report that says iPhone users make...
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Data corruption is worse than you know
Many people reacted with disbelief to my recent series on data corruption (see How data gets lost, 50 ways to lose your data and How Microsoft puts your data at risk), claiming it had never...
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Secrets to designing a service-oriented architecture using Web services
For the past six months at RCG Information Technology, Inc., I’ve been implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) using Web services and a business process management tool. This experience...
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A few errors could be key to super-efficient computer chips
A group of university researchers has determined that "inexact" processors could yield huge gains in efficiency.
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