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FlipStart microPC Hits the Road
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-15
A week ago I reviewed the new FlipStart micro-PC from the Paul Allen-backed FlipStart Labs. In that review, while I found the FlipStart to be cool, I was pretty down on it both for its high price (just about $2,000) and its size and clunkiness. But I have till
Yes, we have no patches today
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2007-03-13
Microsoft won't release any patches this month but the malicious software removal tool gains the ability to spot Win32/Alureon
You can get more info about Win32/Alureon here. I ran the malicious software removal
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The Powering of the Green
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-12
With St. Patrick's day approaching, we'll all soon be seeing lots of green (green shirts, green decorations, green beer). But here at eWEEK, one area that we would like to see be a lot more green is our IT data center (in fact, stay tuned for more on that
The Powering of the Green
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-12
With St. Patrick's day approaching, we'll all soon be seeing lots of green (green shirts, green decorations, green beer). But here at eWEEK, one area that we would like to see be a lot more green is our IT data center (in fact, stay tuned for more on that
NAC Is Whack?
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-03-12
Network access control schemes seem to be all the rage, with IT heavyweights and smaller players alike pushing them full force. While there's no disputing that these NAC initiatives are aimed at worthwhile goals, what remains to be seen is whether and to what extent these initiatives are worth the
Real Dinner, Virtual Topic
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2007-03-08
XenSource gets in some licks at VMware, Cisco clarifies virtualization strategy and the dinner table talk turns to power-efficient data centers and server monitoring at an industry get-together.
I attended the
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One Man's Plea from DST Purgatory
By Andrew Garcia | Posted: 2007-03-08
It is becoming apparent that Microsoft's Daylight-Saving Time tools for Exchange are not proving particularly effective at correctly updating appointments in people's calendars. In my own case, I found that my
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What Are Your Top Web Technology Picks?
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-08
Over at eWEEK.com I've listed my choices for the top 30 Web technologies of all time. This list is based on my experiences here at eWEEK testing, evaluating and using these Web-based products and
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Sweat the Small Stuff for Daylight-Saving Change
By Jim Rapoza | Posted: 2007-03-07
With the accelerated daylight-saving change approaching this week, many businesses and IT users probably feel pretty secure that they have done everything necessary to protect themselves from
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Splunking for who-what-when
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2007-03-06
Splunk is a software application that uses a search language and log aggregation techniques to assist IT help desk staff and managers get to the root cause of system, application and infrastructure problems. Splunk 2.2 takes log data from almost any source and parses out the time information in the
Data loss intention?
By Cameron Sturdevant | Posted: 2007-03-05
Reconnex, maker of data monitoring appliances, today made some news for itself today (March 5, 2007) by announcing the findings of a survey that the company sponsored. Unsurprisingly, the survey showed that of the
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Look Out, Microsoft
By Jason Brooks | Posted: 2007-03-05
We in the computer trade press remain ever poised to chronicle the next major battle between Microsoft and whatever company, governing body or new concept that seems even remotely positioned to challenge the Redmond giant.
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Who Needs A CIO?
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2007-03-02
This year along with March Madness basketball and the start of the baseball season is the apparent start of open season on CIOs. This year's first bash comes from Long Tail author Chris Anderson. His February 27 blog
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Mike Dell's lunch plans
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2007-03-02
Michael Dell has promised a wide ranging, top to bottom house cleaning and restructuring to get his namesake company back on track. That is all well and good, but maybe he should share a plate of ribs in Austin with a company which by putting some smarts in power supplies
The Day The Dow Went Dark
By Eric Lundquist | Posted: 2007-03-01
The day after a computer glitch resulted in a seventy minute period when no one seemed to know where the Dow Jones Industrial Average was headed, only to see it drop nearly 200 points in a matter of seconds once reporting was resumed,I was having a much better day than
