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eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: PatchLink Update 4.0 The PatchLink Update deployment wizard reflects how many patch management systems push updates to targeted machines. PatchLink provides scheduling choices, but we advise against scheduling patches when IT staffers are out of the office. For these kinds eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: PatchLink Update 4.0 – eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: PatchLink Update […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office Suns plug-in adds ODF support to MS Office. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Suns new ODF Plugin for MS Office A good step toward interoperability, but not perfect yet. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Sun ODF Plugin for Office – Installation of the Sun plug-in […]

The Security of Biometrics: Two Screws and a Plastic Cover These are the bones of a typical biometrics or proximity card system: A card reader (the tan box mounted on the lycra display to the left), is connected through wire to an access control system (to the bottom right of the lycra display). In the […]

eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Ubuntu 7.04 When we popped Ubuntus installation disk into a Windows machine, the disk autoruns an Ubuntu greeter applet. eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Ubuntu 7.04 – Try Out Some Free Software Courtesy of the OpenCD project, Ubuntus installer disk offers a handful of open-source Windows applications to allow Ubuntu newcomers to get their […]

The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management Michael Vizard Editorial Director Ziff Davis Enterprise The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Systems Management 1. You cant manage what you dont know you have. The 10 Biggest Oxymorons in IT Management – Storage Management 2. Utilization rates of […]

I Quit! 15 Reasons You Probably Left Your Last IT Job by Deborah Perelman I Quit! 15 Reasons You Probably Left Your Last IT Job – 1. Bad Cultural Fit Compensation plays a role, but cultural alignment plays a bigger one. When current employees are aligned with the direction of the organization and when the […]

More Than Two Years in the Making: Windows Live Hotmail This process is repeated in every milestone, from M2 through M10. More Than Two Years in the Making: Windows Live Hotmail – UI for M2 (Dec. 2004) A designer prototype of the first user interface for the MSN Hotmail beta. Microsoft started internal ‘dogfood’ testing […]

Harry Potter Magic in the Data Center by the editors of eWEEK; illustrated by Brian Moore Harry Potter Magic in the Data Center – Cruciatus Curse The pain inflicted by the unforgivable torture curse is about the same as the pain experienced by any data center manager who has to fix a major server crash […]

Google Apps Premier Edition Walk-Through Several times, Google Calendar told us that it was unable to schedule a meeting from Google Mail—it turns out that our meeting had been scheduled, but we continued to receive this error message. Please note that Google Calendar still carries a beta t Google Apps Premier Edition Walk-Through – Create […]

Seven Things Your CEO Really Needs to Know Odds are your CEO has an outdated notion of what IT is and is not. Since you like your job, youll probably never tell him. But George Colony, chairman and CEO of Forrester Research, will if youd let him. Seven Things Your CEO Really Needs to Know […]

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