- Video: Change the Windows XP product key
- Unless you're working in a geographic region with a high rate of counterfeit software, it's unlikely the Windows XP machines you support will have invalid licenses. However, even in the best run IT shops, unauthorized software can find its way onto...
- Blog, 2008-05-12
- Sanity check: Has Eric Schmidt finally outmaneuvered Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer?
- When Eric Schmidt left his job as the chairman and CEO of Novell to become the top executive at Google in 2001 he privately told journalist John Battelle that one of the things he was looking forward to was no longer competing with Microsoft....
- Blog, 2008-05-12
- How do I... Force Disk Cleanup to delete all temporary files?
- If you've ever run the Microsoft Windows XP's Disk Cleanup utility, you probably discovered that your temporary files occupy a significant amount of space. You might select the Temporary Files check box in order to allow the Disk Cleanup utility to...
- Blog, 2008-05-14
- Video: Five tips to help new IT managers
- Making the move from a technical job to managing an IT department requires a variety of new skills. This episode of Sanity Savers for IT executives provides five tips for IT executives to help their techies make the transition to becoming managers....
- Blog, 2008-05-14
- Friendlier source code with two Firefox add-ons
- While Internet Explorer is popular with users, Firefox is the best browser for Web developers. I continue to discover and take advantage of the myriad of add-ons available for Firefox. I recently discovered two tools -- View formatted source and...
- Blog, 2008-05-12
- Windows XP Service Pack 3 provides updated WPA2 support
- Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) was recentlyreleased as a critical update to Windows XP systems. This update is welcome in that there is still an investment in core updateswith the popular operating system compared to Windows Vista, but it will...
- Blog, 2008-05-11
- 10 things you should do near the end of a project
- Depending on the size of your organization, you may treat project management as a casual practice or you may have an involved PMO. In either case, you probably go through the typical inception, elaboration, and construction phases of a project. But...
- Blog, 2008-05-12
- Geek Trivia: Five for (Saturn) five
- Thirty-five years ago -- May 14, 1973 -- saw the end of an era: The last Saturn V rocket ever to fly was launched from Cape Kennedy. By almost every measure, the Saturn V was the most powerful rocket ever to fly. The Soviet N-1 was a bit wider, and...
- Blog, 2008-05-13
- Aberdeen: Top 25 most influential IT vendors of 2008
- Research firm Aberdeen Group released its Annual State of the Market Report on Tuesday, including a new list of the 100 technology vendors that provide the most value to businesses. The report is based on five years of research, 2.5 million...
- Blog, 2008-05-13
- Batch Active Directory tasks with ease using dsmove
- When you have to do specific Windows administration tasks on a frequent basis, it makes your job easier if all relevant objects are in the same organizational unit (OU). The practice of a holding OU can make partial removal, mass changes, parallel...
- Blog, 2008-05-14
- Why are we ignoring Moore's Law?
- In 1965, Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double every year. That was updated by Moore to two years and updated again by Intel to 18 months. According to Moore, this was a "lucky guess" based on just a few...
- Blog, 2008-05-14
- Check your rootkits at the door with rkhunter
- So it's usually op-ed here but I ran across a story the other day about a new proof of concept rootkit (Hackers Find a New Place to Hide Rootkits) and thought maybe I'd highlight an application I generally use to inspect systems for rootkits. The...
- Blog, 2008-05-12
- HP buys EDS for $13.9 billion, takes on IBM in IT services
- This is a guest post from Larry Dignan. You can read the original article on Larry's blog Between the Lines on TechRepublic's sister site ZDNet. Hewlett-Packard made it official on Tuesday: The company is buying Electronic Data Systems for $25 a...
- Blog, 2008-05-13
- How do I... Spice up a list in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation?
- Most of us use bullets or numbers to introduce specific ideas or points. There's nothing wrong with them, but they are rather ordinary. In a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, you might want to forgo the ordinary and go with something a bit more...
- Blog, 2008-05-13
- Has security grown beyond DIY?
- On Friday, I discussed Joshua Corman's contention that there is no perimeter, and my take on the phrase. That was only one of seven "dirty secrets" of the security industry that he mentioned at Interop Las Vegas. Another is, he tells us, that...
- Blog, 2008-05-12
- Moonlighting silverlight
- So this past week Miguel di Icaza (the overly caffeinated creator of GNOME) brought to us an open source version of Microsofts' Silverlight. The project? Moonlight. And just what are these products? Well, I've heard Silverlight knocked around...
- Blog, 2008-05-18
- Reader Response: Open source IP-PBX's: Ready for the enterprise?
- Bear with me while I get to the information related to the title of this post. I want to provide some background about why I'm asking this question.A few weeks ago, I wrote in the Servers and Storage blog a post indicating that my organization,...
- Blog, 2008-05-17
- The importance of live logging
- Yesterday I was yet again reminded of the importance of getting into the habit of live logging help desk calls. For anyone who is not familiar with the term, live logging means keying the information into the call logging system as they call is in...
- Blog, 2008-05-17
- 10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer
- For many years, the Internet was the "final frontier," operating largely unregulated -- in part because of the jurisdictional nightmare involved in trying to enforce laws when communications crossed not just state lines but also national boundaries....
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- Installing Ubuntu 8.04 on Virtual PC: It takes a village
- I've played around with Linux a little on other's machines, but I've never installed it myself or really tried to use it on a day-to-day basis. So, ready to take the plunge, I decided to install it in a virtual environment so that I could easily...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- You never know what's lurking inside that case
- Our gallery, "Unlucky insect fries PC power supply and explodes self," shows how one unsuspecting tech found a burst bug during a routine PC repair. While scenes of insect slaughter aren't a regular discovery, a good tech should always be prepared...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- Deciphering the term "Fixed Mobile Convergence"
- There are all kinds of buzzwords that we have to deal with on a daily basis. Understanding what they really mean and what's behind them helps to make it easier to decide if a given technology is really good for the business or if the terms are just...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- Poll: When troubleshooting general system problems, which hardware component do you start with?
- When a system won't power on or exhibits intermittent problems, there a host of potential hardware culprits. If you haven't personally witnessed the problem, you can often narrow the list of usual suspects from the customer's description....
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- Top 10 IT headlines for May 16 -- XP on OLPC, Intel-AMD duopoly could be over, software piracy declining
- Top 10 IT headlines End of Intel, AMD duopoly near? Via readies Isaiah chip (CNET) Windows XP comes to the OLPC (TechRepublic) Yahoo to Icahn: You misunderstand (ZDNet) Cisco departure latest sign of transformation (Network World) Aliph...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- TR Out Loud - May 16, 2008
- We knew the time would come -- Beth's last (official) Sweet Biscuits and ShhhIT list on the TR Out Loud podcast. *sniff* In addition, Sonja and Beth recap the week at TechRepublic, including the top five discussions and the top six members who have...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- Your career and the Imposter Syndrome
- In an article on BNET recently, Sean Silverthorne discussed a Harvard Business blog post by Gill Corkindale about a phenomenon she calls Imposter Syndrome. Briefly, this is something seen in managers on fast-track careers who have been promoted to...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- A computer bug for the rest of us
- If you are smart, you have up to date anti-virus and a firewall and probably some spam protection and maybe a spyware blocker on your computer. And you likely feel pretty safe with those tools and you probably keep them up to date and run...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- Windows XP comes to the OLPC
- After years of dispute and half-hearted discussions, the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) organization have come full circle and will be putting Microsoft's Windows operating system onto its XO laptop. Limited trials will begin next month, with a general...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- T-shirt of the week: Planet Lunch
- This week's tee is another obscure pop cultural reference courtesy of R. Stevens, creator of the comic strip Diesel Sweeties. On the surface, it appears to be a rather strangely symbolized expression of your love for astronomy. To the...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
- How to get around Outlook 2007's printing bugs
- For better or worse, Outlook 2007 shipped with a lot of printing bugs. One of the more notable and annoying drops days and rows when printing multiple calendar months. To the rescue <cough> Microsoft released the Calendar Printing...
- Blog, 2008-05-16
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- Network Auditing
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