- Don't trash former employers in interviews
- Criticizing former employers in an interview makes you look worse than the former employer. by Toni Bowers
- Encourage IT consulting clients to call before acting
- Susan Harkins shares a story in which a fellow IT consultant's client reinstalled Windows Vista and lost everything on the system. She details how easy it would have been to just reset the password. by Susan Harkins
- Happy 17th Birthday Linux: Share your story
- Linux turns 17 today (October 6) and Techrepublic wants to know how and when you first got started using the Linux operating system. by Jack Wallen
- Video: Five practical tips for choosing the right UPS
- On the surface, choosing a UPS for your organization's server room may seem like a simple task, but like many IT tasks, the devil is in the details. In this IT Dojo video, Bill gives you five tips to help you choose the right uninterruptible power supply for your environment....
- Pic: Another steampunk stormtrooper
- Hey, look, it's another inspired re-imagining of a Star Wars icon as it would appear in a Jules Verne novel. What? Don't look at me like that. You know this is cool. by Jay Garmon
- Selecting employee security training topics and delivery methods
- After an organization's workforce is familiar with why information security is important as well as management's commitment to security, actual training can begin. In this post we examine the steps leading to a security training program ready for media development. by Tom Olzak
- Sanity check: Five reasons why Windows Vista failed
- With Windows Vista's public perception in shambles and most IT departments stubbornly refusing to adopt it, has the time come for an early post-mortem on Vista? Here are the top five reasons why Vista has failed. Hint: Most of them aren't technical. by Jason Hiner
- Instant Messaging risky without internal mechanism
- Love it or hate it, users want IM. However, Instant Messaging sites and technologies may pose a communications risk to the sensitivity of company information. Here is a perspective on why to block public services and replace them with internal offerings. by Rick Vanover
- Will you evaluate Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008?
- Microsoft has released a standalone hypervisor, Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Will you evaluate it for your organization? Scott Lowe explains the ins and outs of this new product. by Scott Lowe
- Sockstress: A new and effective DoS attack
- Denial of Service attacks aren't new, yet persist in being effective methods of denying access to resources on the Internet. Now meet Sockstress, the newest version of DoS attacks, and heralded as potentially the most devastating of the bunch. by Michael Kassner
- Hibernating a Linux Laptop...FINALLY!
- After much searching and hair-pulling Jack Wallen has finally found a means to get a laptop to hibernate. It's not perfect but it works every time. Read this open source entry and discover how to enjoy a full-featured laptop on Linux. by Jack Wallen
- Easy lookup formulas in Excel
- Spend hours coming up with a complex formula, or let Excel work through the problem in a just a few minutes. by Susan Harkins
- Security news roundup: Newly discovered bugs has potential to crash Internet systems
- This week's security events include news of WinZip opening a security hole in Windows 2000 systems, hackers leveraging Google Trends to more efficiently social engineer users, a new bill offering more protection against unsubstantiated border searches of laptops and electronic devices, and a bag of newly discovered bugs that has...
- Download two ethics and conduct codes for IT consultants
- Can signing a code of ethics really encourage honorable behavior among consultants? Download two firms' conduct codes, and find out how they use them. by TechRepublic
- Poll: Will your company eventually migrate to Windows Vista?
- Most IT departments have turned a cold shoulder to Windows Vista, but there's a still a question of whether they will eventually migrate to Vista or if they will skip it, stick with Windows XP, and wait to migrate to Windows 7. What will your company do? Take our poll....
- Play Atari classics on your PC
- Before the Wii, Xbox, and PS3 was the Atari 2600. It defined the home gaming console. Now you can play some of the classic Atari games right on your PC. by John Sheesley
- How do you decide who gets what machine?
- You can only hold on to old machines for so long. Eventually equipment has to be replaced. Doing so requires a strategy. How do you decide who gets what machine in your organization? by John Sheesley
- Using Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008
- A neat new feature in SQL Server 2008 is the GROUPING SETS clause, which allows you to easily specify combinations of field groupings in your queries to see different levels of aggregated data. Today we'll look at how you can use the new SQL Server 2008 GROUPING SETS clause to...
- How do I install VMware Workstation 6.0 on Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS
- VMware Workstation will work on both the Windows or Linux platform. Learn how to install VMware Workstation 6.5 in Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS. by Steven Warren
- Security tips for small businesses
- There are some low-hanging fruit when it comes to security that, when implemented, can make your life a little easier. But with the limited funds available to smaller IT organizations, here are some tips for getting the biggest bang for the buck. by Jay Rollins
- high cpu utilization of rtvscan.exe
- We have several windows 2000 servers and bunch of windows xp clients. All the servers have norton corporate edition and xp machines have managed norton clients.Everything worked fine until installing update rollup for service pack 4 on the server. Now the rtvscan.exe will take up 50% of cpu cycles on...
- How to stop Office/Outlook 2003 from synchronizing
- This seems to be a common and frustrating problem, and I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere. My computer periodically tells me that Microsoft Office 2003 is synchronizing folders. While it's doing that - and it takes awhile - not much else ca
- The IT Strategic Plan Step-By-Step
- It's April and you are four months into your organization's fiscal year. You know that within six months you'll need to have your operating plan for the upcoming year in fairly solid shape. You also know that creating an operating plan without a longer-range strategic view is like driving a...
- How To Use the Six Laws of Persuasion during a Negotiation
- In order to be successful, you must master the persuasion process, which will enable you to deliberately create the attitude change and subsequent actions necessary for persuading others to your way of thinking. In other words, you have to be able to "sell" your ideas in order to make changes...
- The HP StorageWorks EVA4400 Challenge
- In a first time, head-to-head comparison, HP recently put EVA4400 virtualization capabilities to the test against a traditional disk array from EMC CLARiiON CX3-10. Watch this HP Enterprise TV presentation to see why 5 technology professionals found the new HP StorageWorks EVA4400 easier to operate and a greater time saver...
- One Click App Killer (exe)
- With this very small utility you can kill you freezed programs with one click. For example you double-click on it's icon, the target-like cursor show-up, then on the next program you click, it's terminated. We've took the idea from UNIX world, where people use Xkill. Basically, this utility is a...
- IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP
- Booting Windows XP from a USB Flash drive gives you great IT support tool. For example, you can make a troubleshooting toolkit for booting and analyzing seemingly dead PCs. Or you could always have your favorite support applications at your fingertips.In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler, TechRepublic's Head Technology...
- 10 Firefox extensions you can't live without
- Whether you want to speed access to the Web sites you regularly visit, keep better tabs on your tabs, or protect your system from potentially dangerous active content, there's a Firefox extension ready to help you out. Jack Wallen shares his list of favorite time-saving, browser-enhancing add-ons.This download is also...
- Download this project plan template
- If you've taken on a small to midsize project that doesn't warrant a full-scale plan in Microsoft Project, download this Excel spreadsheet template sent in by a TechRepublic member for quick and easy project management.
- Use these four Registry tweaks to accelerate Windows XP
- Plenty of third-party programs claim to tweak or optimize Windows. However, most of them simply make Registry edits. Here are four manual tweaks that experienced IT professionals can make to improve the speed of Windows XP.Title: Windows XP Hacks, 2nd Edition ISBN: 0596009186 Published: February 2005 Author: Preston Gralla Chapter:...
- Network Security Checklist
- Now more than ever, you depend on your network for your most important business operations, such as communication, inventory, billing, sales, and trading with partners. Many small and medium-sized businesses do not have adequate network security. Here's how to make sure you do. View and complete this...
- TCP/IP Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting is a necessary part of supporting any network installation. Determining and repairing problems can consume a lot of time, especially if you don't know what to do or how to do it correctly and quickly. This On Demand Web Seminar explains how you might consider troubleshooting different problems that...
- Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive
- Almost everyone who has worked with computers for any lengthof time at all has run into at least one situation in which a problem left a PCunbootable. What if you could return the machine to a bootable state just byinserting a USB flash drive though? Believe it or not, it...
- How TechRepublic cracked open the iPhone 3G
- Following up on our Cracking Open gallery of the first iPhone, TechRepublic editors joined Apple's launch-day madness to secure an iPhone 3G for disassembly. Jason Hiner and Bill Detwiler recount their experiences battling long lines, Apple's iTunes meltdown, and limited supplies at AT&T stores.Bill explains how Mark Kaelin and he...
- 10 mispronunciations that make you sound stupid
- Right or wrong, people often judge you by the way you pronounce things. Say a word incorrectly and POW -- they've pegged you as a provincial, poorly educated moron. Toni Bowers offers a list of commonly mangled words so you can double-check your own pronunciation. by Toni Bowers
- Cracking Open the Apple iPhone 3G
- Apple's iPhone 3G arrived on Friday with a bevy of new enterprise-ready features, including Exchange support, business-grade security, and third-party applications powered by an SDK. As with the first iPhone, we waited in line, bought our phone, signed an AT&T contract, and promptly began to crack open the case. Come...
- The Case for Document Management
- Are you asking how to avoid court-imposed sanctions? Are you wondering how to keep the escalating costs of electronic and paper discovery to a minimum? Whether the objective is to handle litigation, deliver new contracts, or projects, companies today need solutions that promote teamwork. However, common bottlenecks...
- Explore the benefits of the IBM BladeCenter S from the inside out
- The perfect mix of performance and energy savings, the IBM BladeCenter S is ideal for the small to mid-sized office and the remote office. It neatly consolidates your storage, servers and networking into a single chassis that plugs into a standard electrical outlet, supports virtually all applications, and uses less...
- Unified Communications: Presence/Status/Mobility/Collaboration
- In this fast-paced 5-minute Flash presentation, follow fictional Operations Manager Sam Jones as she efficiently responds to a complex, multilevel client emergency using the tools of Unified Communications. Watch as she deploys them to listen to voice messages via email, locate situation-relevant contacts and call them with a click, automatically...
- New Deployment Methods For Desktops
- The benefits of storage consolidation and centralized management are well known - they include lower costs, better information protection, and improved IT efficiency. Server consolidation using virtualization software is aimed at generating these same results. A recent trend in many large IT organizations goes beyond server virtualization...
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