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Data Centers

Quick Tip: Protect against DoS attacks in Win2K

One of the favorite tricks that hackers like to use to take down a targeted system is to flood it with traffic, which results in a Denial of Service (DoS). Here are some registry edits that you can use to defend Win2K systems against DoS attacks.

Hardware

Quick Tip: Improve XP performance by changing display options

Make XP run faster with these tweaks

Software

Quick Tip: Highlight urgent items

Tip for highlighting cells in Microsoft Excel

Microsoft

Step-By-Step: Hide the previous logon username in WinNT4

In defending against hackers and malicious users, admins can't neglect local security. One way to help lock down Windows NT systems is to hide the username of the previously logged on user, as this registry tip demonstrates.

Hardware

Step-By-Step: Use ClearType to make screens easier to read

LCD screens can sometimes be hard to read. ClearType can help clear the problem up.

Software

Quick Tip: Correct comma use

Quickly find extra commas in Word documents

Project Management

Most members who use Microsoft Project prefer 2000

In a recent poll about Microsoft Project, the majority of respondents preferred Project 2000. However, more than 40 percent said they didn't use any version of Project at all.

CXO

Poll: Few requests for information from the government

Check out these Polling Place Quick Poll results to see how many people have been asked by the government to check networks and databases as part of the war on terrorism.

CXO

Poll: Most respondents don’t survey their users regularly

Check out these Quick Poll results to see how many members say that they survey their users about quality of IT service on a regular basis.

Security

Poll: Members spend about a day per month on security research

Check out these Polling Place Quick Poll results to see how much time some organizations spend researching security threats to their network.

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