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Microsoft has made a number of announcements in the last 24 hours that show it is not going to let the oncoming Google Office steal its thunder without a fight. It looks to me like the transformation of Microsoft into a Web 2.0 company is underway at this moment and is happening faster than many people expected.
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With skilled IT staff levels at their lowest in 35 years, employers are driving to come up with more flexible employment packages to attract employees, according to specialist recruitment agency, Hays Information Technology.
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If you are running Linux, chances are you are running SSH. Here are five easy things you can do to lock down your server and make SSH more secure. Includes disabling root logins, using keys to login, automatically blocking hosts who are attempting dictionary attacks, and more.
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The number of people in the UK who have no intention of getting internet access has risen, research firm Point Topic has found.
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So many great new web sites are cropping up all over the place! From Social Bookmarking Sites, to Real Estate sites, this list has only the best Web 2.0 Sites available today.
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Backing up an entire disk under any operating system is a necessary evil. Justin James walks you through the process needed to create an identical copy of an entire disk under UNIX
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Creating multiple shared folders in Windows XP Pro? It doesn't have to be difficult. Greg Shultz tells about the Create a Shared Folder wizard and how it can do a lot of the work for you.
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The city is investigating a security glitch in its elections Web site that hackers could have used to swipe Social Security numbers and the personal information of about 1.3 million voters, officials said
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The goal of this IBM Redbook is to provide a technical planning reference for IT organizations large or small that are now considering a migration to Linux-based personal computers. For Linux, there is a tremendous amount of "how-to" information available online that addresses specific and very technical operating system configuration issues, etc.
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MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don't always suit a MySQL developer or administrator's common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such as remote or over-the-web monitoring. Fortunately, the MySQL community has created a variety of free tools to fill the gaps.
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Smart homes have been talked about for decades, but beyond a few concept houses and a few gadget-happy homeowners, little has been achieved in making them a bricks-and-mortar reality. The TEAHA project team plans to enable all of us to call our house and tell it to start the laundry, fill the bath or crank up the heating.
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It's been six years since the Florida presidential fiasco launched a flurry of spending around the country to replace antiquated punch-card and lever voting machines with expensive new electronic touch-screen machines. Yet new controversies over the security of e-voting machines continue to crop up, making it clear that the new machines are just as problematic as the ones they replaced.
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The public fears losing their fingers to ruthless biometric ID thieves in the fingerprint-controlled future, apparently. Or at least, so says Frost & Sullivan analyst Sapna Capoor, who argued unconvincingly that "A dead finger is no good to a thief."
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When you're called upon to work on a user's machine, things will go more smoothly if you know which items to pull out of your toolkit. This list of terms will help you identify which tools you need for all sorts of tech repair work.
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The open-source movement, which has long made inroads into corporations via Linux and other enterprise-level software, now has a potentially bigger target in its cross hairs: the PBXs and network routers from companies such as Cisco Systems Inc. that form the basis of networking infrastructure.
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Rather than the lone "Try again" button, ErrorZilla adds buttons to the error page that allow you to do things like view the Google Cache of the page, find a snapshot of the page from the Wayback Machine, ping the site, or see who owns the site with a WhoIs lookup (assuming, of course, any of this information exists for the site).
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Iran's internet service providers (ISPs) have started reducing the speed of Internet access to homes and cafes based on new government-imposed limits, a move critics said appeared to be part of a clampdown on the media.
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Find out all the open source servers, plugins, libraries, and other tools used by two of CNET's Ruby on Rails powered sites, Chow.com and Chowhound.
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Windows Vista and Office 2007, according to industry analysts, may be the last time Microsoft can really cash in on these lucrative personal computer products, as software is increasingly distributed, developed and used on the Internet.
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These people at UI held a contest to find the oldest, most obsolete personal computer still in regular use on campus and applaud that member of the UI community who has held their ground against the march of planned obsolescence.
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Carrying a flash drive on a keychain is so 2002. Increase that style by cramming that boring 'ole flash drive down the throat of a crazy stuffed Japanese toy thing.
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Windows Vista's enhanced functionality and snazzy Aero Glass visual effects will demand steeper hardware requirements for the machines you support. Check this list to make sure you cover all the bases before deciding what Vista versions those machines will be able to run.
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Many network administrators new to Linux find it hard to transition from a point-and-click security configuration interface to one based on editing complicated and hard-to-locate text files. TechRepublic outlines seven easy things administrators can and should do to make their Linux server more secure and significantly reduce the risk they face.
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Unlike Linspire and Xandros, which are both based on Debian, Linux XP is derived from Fedora. It runs an extensively modified version of GNOME to create an environment a Windows user should be comfortable with. Its manifesto claims that Linux XP is not a "cheap copycat product" but rather a mature and stable "ready-to-migrate desktop system."
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(IN)SECURE Magazine is a freely available digital security magazine discussing some of the hottest information security topics. It can be distributed only in the form of the original non-modified PDF document.
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Qualcomm is exiting the e-mail software market and will rebuilding Eudora products on an open-source Thunderbird foundation.
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It was only 30 years ago this week that JVC received a IEEE milestone for development of the VHS Video along with releasing the first VHS player.
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This lecture takes you through the basic commands and then shows you how to combine them in simple patterns or idioms to provide sophisticated functionality like histogramming. This lecture assumes you know what a shell is and that you have some basic familiarity with UNIX.
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This tool will find other domain names hosted on your IP address. Just enter a domain (www.example.com) or an IP address (127.0.0.1) to get a list of domain names that share the same IP address
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According to UC Berkeley, Google is the number-one search engine. However, at first glance, one search engine looks just like all the rest. To confuse the issue even further, Google happens to be the "engine" behind a number of them.
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BartPE is a troubleshooting CD you create yourself to help recover from system errors and failures. It's a potent troubleshooting tool that can replace and old DOS boot disks.
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If your company is looking for ways to control telecommunications costs, Asterisk offers tools that level that the playing field for small and medium sized business.
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Google today launched Code Search, a search engine and index of source code that is collected from publicly available sources.
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This website is a one-stop national resource to learn about the crime of identity theft. It provides detailed information to help you Deter, Detect, and Defend against identity theft. While there are no guarantees about avoiding identity theft, there are steps you can take to minimize your risk and minimize the damage if a problem occurs:
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You may now be running a Linux desktop, but there are many important files shared from the XP machine over in accounting. Samba on Linux does a great job of providing the same file and printer sharing that Windows servers used to and sometimes still do provide.
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Ubuntu Linux is hot. Really hot. If Distrowatch was your only source of Linux information, you might be forgiven for thinking that this was the most popular Linux distribution in the world. It isn't, at least not yet, but the level of excitement surrounding this distribution is amazing.
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PHP and MySQL are a powerful combination when it comes to providing dynamic content to your user base. Get the step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring these products in a Microsoft Windows environment.
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