IT Professionals
Mission-Critical Innovation Award Winners
Outside the Imperial Hotel in Vienna, an Austrian police escort lined the sidewalks waiting for a foreign dignitary to be whisked away by car. Inside, just past the lobby, finalists for the 2011 Mission-Critical Innovation Awards, presented by HP and Intel, enjoyed Austrian wine and appetizers while listening to a string quartet. While the police [...]
What to Do when Your Email Stops Working
Before I can explain how to troubleshoot an email problem, let me explain my unique email situation. I have three email accounts: Cable ISP for family and friends using Outlook 2007 MSN Hotmail account also using Outlook 2007. Gmail account for general email and to sync with Android smart phone using Mozilla Thunderbird. My problem [...]
Google+ Wants You to Get More Spam
It’s long been known that using a scraper to look for [username]@[domain] on Web pages is a known harvesting technique for spammers. Phishing attacks have taken to using valid email addresses for more targeted attacks as well. That’s why you see people doing clever tricks like displaying their email address as an image, embedding mailto [...]
Don’t Forget Your out of Office Message This Holiday Season
“Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat… Please put a penny in the old man’s hat!” Taking time off over the holidays to recharge is important. However, not everyone chooses to take time off. With this in mind, creating an out-of-office message is important to ensure that people who email you know that you [...]
What Not to Do at a Holiday Party
Sure, it’s not even Halloween yet, but we like to prepare early. (It’s not like we’re a retail store putting up Christmas decorations in June, so cut us some slack, please!) With the holiday season soon to once again be upon us, it’s time for those office Christmas parties. I’m sure we’ve all seen that movie [...]
Remote IT Monitoring Can Reduce Support Costs
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of GoToManage. All opinions are 100% mine. Many of us who work in IT start out with the goal of solving interesting technology problems only to wind up mired in operations sustainability. Sometimes this is because there simply aren’t enough people to do all the [...]
Will Personal Servers Be Replaced by Cloud Computing?
Gnomie Roberto asks: “Will personal servers be replaced by cloud networking?” Chris Pirillo answers: “This is a really good question, because I think we all face this, especially if we’re afraid of letting our data be out there. Of course, usually the people who say they’re most afraid are the ones who use all these [...]
Measuring the Potential Effects of Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks
When you’re planning out your castle in anticipation of a potential siege, it’s good to know what kinds of enemies you might be facing somewhere down the line. If you think Dracula is likely to attack, for instance, build a moat and the sorry old bloodsucker won’t be able to cross the water to get [...]
Is Brand Important?
Over at LockerGnome’s new YouTube channel, Questions to Answer, Gnomie Frank Angelone asks: “Since branding is extremely important in the online space with getting recognized as a personality or just to establish your company name, if you were to redo it all over again today, what would be the name you would choose for LockerGnome [...]
EoIP: Ethernet over IP
At first earful, ethernet over IP, or EoIP, sounds like a backwards technology (usually we do IP over ethernet). But it’s got some very practical applications and helps to simplify situations that can easily get out of hand under more complicated systems. If you’ve ever run DD-WRT or some of the other router technologies, there’s [...]
