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CXO

Career goals topic of choice with aspiring staff

A member of your team who says she wants to move up in the company could mean any number of things. Most respondents to this Polling Place Quick Poll seem to realize that long-term goals should guide short-term moves.

Security

Novell releases a flurry of patches for multiple products

With nine updates and patches from Novell, NetWare admins will be busy this week. An advisory from CERT and Trend Micro info on seven new viruses round out this week's Exterminator.

Hardware

Old computers get put out to pasture

Take a look at the results of our Polling Place Quick Poll on what your organization does with its old computers. Many still have a useful life after retirement, while others are destined for the trash heap.

Tech & Work

Are you due for a promotion?

How long has it been since you received a promotion? Have you been doing the same job for too long? See what these results of our latest poll suggest that your colleagues are experiencing.

Tech & Work

Bonuses absent for most

The annual year-end bonus, once a mainstay of the holidays, has become more rare this year, at least for respondents to this Polling Place Quick Poll.

CXO

Burnout is a common ailment

Everyone knows that IT professionals work hard. It should come as no surprise then that most of the respondents to this Polling Place Quick Poll said that they sometimes feel burned out.

CXO

IT manager position is the most common path to CIO

If you're an IT manager longing to advance to CIO, take heart. Almost half of the CIOs who answered this Quick Poll previously held an IT manager position. Take a look at the numbers.

After Hours

Majority predict PlayStation 2 as victor

Despite Microsoft's hype of the Xbox, Sony will rule the video game world in 2002 with the PlayStation 2, according to these results from a Polling Place Quick Poll.

Security

CERT warns about SSH and System V vulnerabilities

In the absence of any updates from Microsoft this week, Exterminator surfed over to CERT to pick up two advisories: one on Secure Shell and one on System V login. Get the latest viruses alerts too.

CXO

Many employers provide little or no training assistance

The majority of respondents to this Polling Place Quick Poll indicated that they get less than one thousand dollars for training each year. Take a look at the numbers and then tell us how you pay for the training you need if your company won't help.

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