- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- New study says more IT jobs at risk
- At the end of April, The Wharton School and CareerBuilder.com released new research on offshoring based on data from 3,000 hiring managers and HR professionals. If you're in any of the sectors audited, you should be aware of some of the findings....
- Blog, 2008-05-15
- 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
- Put the default Search back in Windows Vista SP1
- Ever since I've been using Windows Vista, I've been creating and using Saved Searches for files that I most commonly need to find on my hard disk. In fact I've amassed such a large list saved searches that I rarely need to conduct a new search. As...
- Blog, 2008-05-15
- Filter ICMP traffic in the Cisco IOS
- The Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) is not TCP and it's not UDP. However, ICMP is critical to the functionality of any IP network such as your corporate network or the Internet. While ICMP is required for IP network traffic redirection and...
- Blog, 2008-05-15
- Microsoft desperately trying to break free of the PC
- Microsoft has been trying, with varying degrees of success, to break free of their PC based roots for quite some time now, but their latest machinations almost smack of desperation. The failed bid for Yahoo seems to have set off a virtual explosion...
- Blog, 2008-05-13
- Can Microsoft win over enough developers to change the paradigm?
- Over the last few months, I have written about some of the changes occurring in the development landscape. Some of the other writers in TechRepublic's Programming and Development space have also been approaching the same topic with hands-on...
- Blog, 2008-05-13
- Will HP repeat its history by buying EDS?
- HP made a lot of news the other day by announcing its purchase of EDS. This isn't the first time HP has gone on a buying spree to extend its business. Most of you probably remember HP's purchase of Compaq back in 2002. The question is whether HP has...
- Blog, 2008-05-14
- Nortel claims that it is siphoning network customers away from Cisco
- Nortel is positioning itself up as a "green" networking vendor that has the right history and products to take market share from Cisco Systems, and Nortel has a new research study and a group of converted customers that it's using to help spread the...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- How do I... Replace a complex connection string with a DSN?
- Anybody who's interacted with foreign data programmatically knows that getting the connection code right can be frustrating. If you're lucky, someone in your organization can provide the correct connection string. On the other hand, a lot of us are...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Livecast: DIY webcasts using your phone
- I stumbled across something today that is to say the least, uniquely interesting. A company called ComVu just released "Livecast" innovative technology that facilitates DIY webcasting. In only a few minutes, anyone using a cell phone camera can be...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Delays in terminating network access to departing employees common
- One of the main areas of focus for IT leaders is data security. Most companies admit that the main threat to security lies within their walls, not from outside sources. Would you be surprised to learn, then, that those same companies are often lax...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Some companies lax on terminating network access to departing employees
- I once worked for a company who had a strict policy on employee exits. When an employee was let go, he or she was physically escorted from the building minutes after receiving the news. This action supposedly served two purposes: one that the...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Top IT headlines for May 20: Developers slow to build on Vista, hosted Exchange ramps up, more muni Wi-Fi closures
- Top 10 IT headlines Developers slow to build on Windows Vista (TechRepublic) Nine more municipal Wi-Fi networks slated for closing (TechWeb) Microsoft: Half of Exchange inboxes to be Microsoft-hosted in five years (ZDNet) Apple cleaning up in...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Scripting the remove and disable mailbox attributes in Exchange 2007
- If your Windows environments have migrated to Exchange 2007, you know that the use of the Exchange Management Shell has become a critical part of system administration. One of the topics that go along with de-provisioning an account is how to handle...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Would giving up some privacy help you (and your network)?
- Privacy and security are definitely at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to the Internet. In order to get more security than we have now, we are going to have to give up some privacy. However, the two concepts are far from a zero-sum...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Geek Trivia: Raiders of the lost art
- If you ever come into possession of a time machine and are thus faced with that famous chrononautic conundrum -- "what one person can I go back in time and eliminate to bring about the most significant change to the present?"-- a legitimate case can...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Developers slow to build on Windows Vista
- Many developers are slow to target Microsoft's Vista operating system, claims survey by Evans Data Corp of 380 developers in North America. The predominant cause appears to be a lack of user interest in Windows Vista, though some growth is...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Add hyperlinks that open in a new window
- Hyperlinks make it easy for users to quickly go to a Web page without leaving their Word document, but you can make it even easier if the page opens in a new window outside of Word. Follow these steps: Click where you want to insert the hyperlink...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Quickly add text to your Excel 2002/2003 charts
- To add text outside your chart titles, you usually have to create a text box. But with Excel 2002/2003, you can just type it in. Follow these steps: Select the chart you want to add text to. Start typing the text. As you type, the text will...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for May 20, 2008
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, just post it in the discussion area of the article. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from our assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- Print each group of your Access report on a separate page
- You have a number of offices in various cities across the state. You need to send the latest employee information to each office. You have already grouped your Employees report by city. Now you want to be sure that when this report is printed, each...
- Blog, 2008-05-20
- How do I... Replace a complex connection string with a DSN?
- Technically speaking, a Data Source Name (DSN) is an identifier to a data source for an Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC) driver (library). ODBC is a function library that interfaces between the Application Programming Interface (API) and compliant...
- Download, 2008-05-20
- Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced Functionality
- Microsoft PowerPoint Advanced Functionality is a preformatted presentation for training staff to maximize Microsoft PowerPoint's more advanced functio ...
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- IT Hiring Kit: IT Manager
- The IT Hiring Kit for IT Managers will help you interview, evaluate, and select suitable candidates for a new IT Manager position. This kit comes with ...
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