Microsoft says that IE8 will return to its original standards compliant mode as the default rendering mode -- going back on previous statements to the contrary.

Working (or living) within a Linux-based network is become more and more commonplace. And with the popularity of Mac OS X rising, Apple-based computers have to play well inside a Linux network. With the help of Samba this is not only possible, it's easy to configure and establish. Jack Wallen takes a look at how a Mac OS X computer connects to a Samba share.

Upgrading to a new operating system — whether it’s one personal computer at home or an office full of workstations — can be a stressful experience. You do it to take advantage of new features or to be able to run new applications, but you approach it with trepidation because you know there are always ...

Step-by-step instructions for clearing the Internet Explorer (version 7) cache using the command line

I’ve covered the system monitoring tool Nagios in a previous tip, focusing on using it to monitor remote systems and explaining some of its basic configurations. But, in addition to monitoring remote services and local statistics, it can monitor local statistics on remote servers with a little bit of work and planning. To start with, ...

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is the remote administrative tool of choice for many IT professionals. IT consultant Erik Eckel explains how to configure TightVNC, the more robust version of VNC, for secure access to remote systems.

Following up on my previous review of FreeNAS, I have had some time to play around and investigate further. Unfortunately, due to issues with the current release of VMWare Fusion (bridged networking does not work), I was unable to use the downloadable virtual appliance. Instead, I created a clean Parallels virtual machine and installed from ...

I was listening to NPR on the way home yesterday when they aired a story regarding teenagers coming of age in this digital world and how this is the first generation of children to have mastered current technology before their parents did. It went on to describe all the horrible things that kids can get ...

ERD Commander 2005 from Winternals Software is not cheap, but with the investment comes a collection of powerful utilities you can use with confidence to repair failed systems. Best of all, it's completely legal.

Learn to use the handy filesystem ACLs to extend access controls to files and directories with more flexibility.

Find out how TechRepublic members responded to the following prompt: "In ten words or less, complete the following sentence: 'I really wish Microsoft would...'"

Firefox 1.5 has been officially released, my older version of Firefox notified me and downloaded the update by itself.  To be honest there isn’t much difference to previous versions in a day to day use, however there are some problems…  Since the update my notebook has inexplicably crashed, and quite often slows down considerably.  It ...

In the second part of this article from Builder AU Technical Editor David McAmis, learn how to create XML web services for reporting from your .NET application.

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.

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. ...