- Offshoring the help desk
- If you think it is hard to understanding people on off-shored support lines spare a thought for those of us who get to do house calls in the more rural parts of Merry England. by Jeff Dray
- 10 things you should do (and not do) at your company's holiday party
- The holiday party is full of opportunities to shoot yourself in the foot -- but you may also get a chance to do your career some good. Calvin Sun offers a list of party do's and don'ts to help you steer the right course. by Calvin Sun
- 10 ways to reduce removable media headaches in Linux
- If you've shied away from Linux because of the hassle of working with removable media, you may want to take another look. Thanks to automation -- and with the help of these tips -- you may find that removable media is downright user friendly. by Jack Wallen
- Norton AntiVirus 2009 with Antispyware gets the job done
- Windows users face an unprecedented and skyrocketing number of threats from a widening variety of sources. IT Consultant Erik Eckel reviews Norton AntiVirus 2009 With AntiSpyware as a potential solution in one all-inclusive software package. by Erik Eckel
- Srizbi Botnet: Life after McColo
- After McColo was shut down, the Srizbi botnet, a major source of spam and over 300,000 strong, was effectively quieted. Not for long, Spam levels eventually started ramping back up. How is that possible with no command and control servers? Read on to find out. by Michael Kassner
- Printing multiple pages per sheet in Word
- Printing doesn't have to be a one to one ratio. Word lets you print multiple pages on one sheet of paper. by Susan Harkins
- 10 songs that will make your IT day go faster
- No matter how frustrating or boring a particular task happens to be, a good song can usually make it bearable. Rick Vanover shares some of the tunes that help get him through the day. by Rick Vanover
- Poll: Have you experienced a Windows Check Disk malfunction?
- Windows Vista's Check Disk utility doesn't always behave as it should. Take this quick poll and tell us which Windows Check Disk malfunction you've experienced most often? by Bill Detwiler
- Negotiating skills for IT consultants
- Have you ever won over a potential client with a perfect presentation but lost them at the negotiation table? Rick Freedman describes what can go wrong and how you can prevent mistakes. by Rick Freedman
- Is the new Komodo 5 toolset worth the upgrade?
- Vincent Danen reviews the new Komodo 5.0 toolset for developers. Do new features and enhanced performance make it worth the upgrade? by Vincent Danen
- Video: Stop Check Disk from constantly running when Windows Vista starts
- Windows Vista's Check Disk utility is a good tool for detecting and potentially fixing file system errors. But sometimes, Check Disk doesn't behave as it should. In this IT Dojo video, Bill Detwiler offers advice on what to do when Vista's Check Disk tool malfunctions. by Bill Detwiler
- Job fairs coming to a town near you
- Targeted job fairs may offer an opportunity for employment but also may give you a peek into what's out there in terms of your career. Here are a few that are coming up. by Toni Bowers
- Non-free "blobs" in the Linux kernel?
- Jack Wallen comments on the debate that's broken out about the use of proprietary "blobs" in the "free" Linux kernel. How much "free" deserves the seal of approval from the Free Software Foundation? Does the expectation of 100-percent free software make sense? by Jack Wallen
- Compliance pitfalls with high-risk users
- A secret most security vendors will not tell you is high-risk users may circumvent traditional network and security compliance controls every day. Because of this, it is important to examine best practices, and take needed action to control high-risk users. by Cheryl Traverse
- Converting an existing application to use the Parallel Extensions Library
- Microsoft's Parallel Extensions Library takes most of the work out of running pieces of code in parallel. Discover how Justin James successfully used the library to convert an app he wrote. by Justin James
- Video: John Cleese pimps a paleo-laptop
- Only a Pythonite would try to sell me a 22-pound "laptop" with 4.1 megabytes of RAM by comparing it to a dead fish. And it almost works. by Jay Garmon
- Silent destroyers: Ignorance, negligence and the not-my-fault mentality
- We need to look closely at conditions victimizing people in the wrong place at the wrong time. If it isn't a crime to use public ignorance of technology to shift responsibility for acts of cyber-negligence, maybe it should be. by Tom Olzak
- More tools for easy network testing: NetCPS and NTttcp
- Microsoft's NTttcp and NetCPS offer a quick and easy way to gauge the peformance of a network between two hosts in a listener and sender configuration. Rick Vanover introduces you to these two handy tools. by Rick Vanover
- Deploy services quickly with prebuilt virtual appliances
- Virtual appliances -- prebuilt virtual machines that include all of the components necessary to get a service running -- abound. There are free appliances and paid appliances available to meet most needs. Get up and running quickly and avoid the hassle of installing a system on your own....
- HP CEO Hurd: This downturn is different for IT than 2001
- Hewlett-Packard's fiscal fourth quarter didn't offer up many surprises given the company pre-announced the results along with its outlook. But there were more than a few notable nuggets that indicate where tech demand is heading. by Larry Dignan
- Hotmail Login
- I have a user who is running WinXP and frequently uses Hotmail as a backup when her office email goes down. After loading Ad-Aware SE she can no longer login to her Hotmail account from this system. After creating a new Hotmail account for a different user, we...
- 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...
- 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:...
- 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...
- Cracking Open the $8000 Alienware Area 51 ALX
- The Area 51 ALX systems from Alienware are their cream of the crop, flagship, desktop computers. Our review unit came with three nVidia GeForce 280 GTX video cards, each carrying 1GB of dedicated GPU RAM. We had to crack open the case to see what a case full of video...
- 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...
- System Explorer (exe)
- This full-featured system analyzing tool lets you take a sneak peek at everything that's going on in your system, from currently active processes to installed drivers, including also network collections, startup applications and Internet Explorer add-ons, if you have any. you can end any active process or delete items from...
- Cracking open the iPhone, video 1 ? Getting started
- After waiting in line, spending $600, signing a two-year AT&T contract, and activating the iPhone, we decided that the next sensible action was to take the thing apart -- in classic TechRepublic Cracking Open style. In addition to our extensive photo gallery, we filmed three video clips in which TechRepublic?s...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 10+ essential (and free) Windows applications
- When George Ou builds a new Windows computer, he installs a dozen of his favorite free apps. Not only do they fill essential functions, they're all well-behaved installers and uninstallers: no crashing the computer or gunking it up. See how to make the most of your computer without spending a...
- Windows cannot access specified device, path or file...
- I have a problem that has developed on my user account. When I try to open any EXE file or MDB file on a network drive I get the following message.Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.I...
- Adjust these performance options to speed up Windows XP
- Scott Lowe explains how several time-tested adjustments can greatly increase the performance of Microsoft Windows XP. by Scott Lowe
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