2007 December

Why is it that so many people are beginning to see Craigslist as an alternative to eBay? Considering just how very different each of them are, a more likely comparison would be Amazon vs eBay in my opinion. Regardless, the fact remains that many casual sellers and buyers are turning to Craigslist as it is […]

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Learn how your enterprise can combat today’s threats and still remain nimble enough for tomorrow’s potential threats.
Unauthorized endpoint computers pose significant security risks to organizations. Where underlying network-based enforcement is available, network access control (NAC) solutions provide detection and implementation of security policies to minimize these risks. However, in some environments the network cannot provide […]

First of all, what is a PIM anyway? Basically it is a personal information manager, like MS Outlook, Novell’s Evolution or Microsoft’s Entourage for you OS X users. Up until recently, it has felt like most PIM solutions for most people were fairly limited. Then came news of this new Mozilla based option, still very […]

A study of Fortune 1000 companies shows that investments in information technology carry higher risk than other capital investments, according to the Management Insights feature in the current issue of Management Science, the flagship journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
Management Insights, a regular feature of the journal, is a […]

A key factor in fostering innovation is creating a culture and associated infrastructure to support collaboration across organizational boundaries.
In the age of Web 2.0, Internet users are rewriting the rules of social interaction, using blogs, forums, and social bookmarking for sharing information and sustaining relationships across borders.
This IBM white paper looks at how organizations can […]

Just as I wrap this up, I found out that Gmail could actually become a threat if not used properly. Take a look at this. In my eyes, this is not so much a Gmail issue as an email issue. I think that this ought to be serving as a reminder to all of us […]

Today, my sister-in-law asks:
At work I keep getting emails from a certain customer and they are all in Greek text! They were sent in US English. I really should switch mail clients, as this one keeps converting it to “Greek.” Any thoughts?
Assuming that they are sending the email in HTML vs plain text […]

The X Window System is one of the most flexible and adaptable graphical interfaces in the computer industry. Having been around for more than 20 years, this Open Source system underlies graphical desktops on Linux and Unix systems and supports advanced features of modern graphics cards. Unfortunately, although more people are using X Window System […]

Explore the evolving industry of data warehousing with the Vice President of Business Intelligence Solutions at IBM.
A data warehouse appliance that’s both dynamic and balanced sure sounds good, but what exactly do those terms mean? Talk to Big Blue, and it’ll tell you that the Balanced Warehouse is the hub of its dynamic warehousing strategy. […]

Found this today and had to share my thoughts. Considering the fact that the posting left out the inclusion of other services like Hotmail, it is rather one-sided in my opinion. Yes, it is not a shock at all that Yahoo still has a larger number of users for their email services as it has […]

As this year draws to a close, I need to rethink my priorities in life. This series was started as my own attempt to coax at least a few people into using the tools of rational thought and the scientific method in their daily lives without forcing them to become professional scientists.
My tools have been […]

Although I’d worked with BlackBerries off and on since they were scarcely more than two-way pagers, I’d only come to own one of them in late 2003. And that was more or less by accident. One of my customers had gotten himself a Treo 650, so he gave me his BlackBerry 7290 device (it was […]

We live in an information-rich era. Being quite good at collecting information, we’re not especially good at figuring out what to do with it: understanding it, learning from it, and being able to convey its meaning to others.
“What do the paths that millions of visitors take through a Web site look like?” asks author Ben […]

Over the past few years, I have seen the growth in all-in-one adoption printers as described here. However what most people purchasing these computer add-ons fail to realize is that most average people struggle to use them without a little assistance.
If you work the PC repair racket (business), you have experienced this with at least […]

Today, Cam asks:
Like you, I help a lot of people with their computers, mainly seniors as I am well advanced in that population group.
I have a couple of silly problems which have stumped me recently and I hope you might be able to sort me out without too much difficulty.

I am no longer able to […]

Event Viewer is not new to Windows Vista. You can find it in earlier versions of Windows. The Event Viewer is, for the most part, a passive tool that tracks system errors and events of interest. Events can be generated by users with the appropriate authority (administrative privileges) and indeed, applications and services can […]

IBM’s business resilience plan integrates IT recovery, information security programs, and a business continuity plan.
For any organization, particularly mid-sized companies, a sound strategy for business continuity is imperative to survival. IBM offers solutions that can minimize or prevent the devastating loss of revenue and reputation that often accompanies an unexpected disaster.
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With the obvious demand for gaming appliances this time of year, it should come as no real shock that purchasing a Nintendo Wii is amazingly difficult right now. And despite these consoles being readily available only a few short weeks ago from Google’s Shopping engine, today there are none to be found anywhere.
For me, this […]

I’ve got more DVR capability in my home than should be legally allowed. But once in a while, Comcast will go sideways on me and my Cable TV signal will drop out. This varies from a brief drop that can be ignored to longer term drops. And all the DVRs in the world can’t help […]