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Microsoft launches its ‘Get the Facts’ road show in the U.K., to spread the word that Windows is better than Linux. But are anti-Microsoft supporters a “jihad?”

Lots of high-res images can really spruce up a Web site. But they can also slow it down– images are files, files use bandwidth, and bandwidth is directly related to wait times. It’s time you get yourself an education on how to speed things up with a little trick called image preloading.

Security experts warn that a patch released by Apple last week to shore up the operating system against malicious Web sites does not actually solve the problem.

In contrast to the heated reaction from some U.S. workers, the country most associated with offshoring is subdued and puzzled by the opposition that has arisen.

Prescott Pentium 4s are in short supply, according to Dell and HP, causing some to turn to an older Pentium 4 design to keep up with demand for new desktop PCs.

Windows XP comes with Disk Defragmenter, which is a slimmed down version of Executive Software’s Diskeeper disk defragmentation program. This utility is accessible via the Computer Management Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and as a stand-alone utility on the Tools tab of each hard drive’s Properties dialog box. There’s also a command-line version of this utility …

Word: AutoFormat dashes You don’t have to memorize complicated shortcut keys to insert dashes into your documents. Word’s AutoCorrect feature lets you insert them by typing one or two hyphens. First, activate the feature in AutoCorrect by following these steps: In Word 2002, go to Tools | AutoCorrect Options (or AutoCorrect in Word 2000). In …

When you open the Address Book, Outlook displays several different contact sources in the Show Names From The drop-down list. For example, the list includes the Global Address List and other Exchange Server address lists, the default Contacts folder, the Personal Address Book, LDAP directory service accounts, and other contacts folders the user has created. …

Outlook 2000 and 2002 provide support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) queries, which enable Outlook users to look up contacts stored in an LDAP server such as the Windows Server Active Directory. However, successfully querying an LDAP server requires a user to properly configure the server’s settings and set the search base for the …

Administrators can limit unnecessary traffic on Exchange servers without hampering the delivery of legitimate business messages. One way to accomplish this is to limit the number of recipients for mail messages. By making a registry edit to Exchange 5.5, it’s possible to limit any message to a specified number of recipients. Limiting recipients in this …

Many IT departments place systems exposed to the Internet in their firewall’s demilitarized zone (DMZ). This practice helps protect the servers from internal and external attacks. Placing servers in a DMZ also protects the internal network if an attacker compromises the exposed server. You can place an Outlook Web Access (OWA) server in a DMZ, …

Sometimes, a problem can temporarily stump even experienced Exchange 5.5 administrators. For instance, your servers all seem to work, your users notice no problems, and yet adding an owner to a distribution list produces the following error: An internal processing error has occurred: Invalid Attribute Syntax. Please restart the Administrator program, Microsoft Exchange Server or …