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Long ago, in days or yore, it was common to complain that most information technology leaders and staff were too focused on deploying cool technology just for the sake of technology rather than ensuring that there was valid business justification for
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Yes, you heard me correctly… We still think about personal and corporate security only as an afterthought. Despite all the regulatory and industry compliance that has been created and updated in the past 15 years, as we close out this decade, we are hardly
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The role of an organization’s technologists are to protect the technology and information assets of the company, while facilitating productivity to move the business forward. This is always a balancing act, as no technology department that I am aware of today has anything resembling an unlimited budget.
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A few years back, I went out in search of a .NET-based forums product and found the then-awesome CommunityServer application. I built a couple of corporate intranet sites on the platform, and then built a new personal site for myself on it. The
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As a technologist, I am always on the lookout for new and exciting products, solutions and discoveries which will be coming to a store near me at some point in the future. Whenever possible, I look to jump on the beta bandwagon and preview or test
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Marion Jones, who confessed last year to doping and was stripped of her medals , has left even more victims in her wake because of her participation in various relays . Because of her absolutely stupid actions, and her disregard for fairness and professionalism,
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I just finished reading an article on Windows Vista from InfoWorld , and it makes several really good points. Windows Vista brings a lot to the table that gets de-emphasized by the masses. It's funny that when Microsoft releases a product that is
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One of the things that annoys me about Microsoft (and this is true, to some extent, of any large company) is that there are too many times where it seems that one hand is not talking to the other. Sometimes, it seems like one hand doesn't even know that there's another hand.
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I don't say this too often, but words cannot express how worthless they are. If I were to summarize the ways in which they failed to provide useful service, I could take all month. In short, they were lacking in a number of areas, including: Poor customer
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It's been a long time coming, but I finally got rid of my previous hosting company. Their sins are too numerous to mention in this post, but rest assured, I will address them in the next couple weeks. I also need to upgrade my site to Community Server
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So, I sort of completed the migration to Exchange 2007 that I had decided to do this weekend. Sort of. The mailbox moves were flawless. Total time for this part of the migration was about 15 minutes, with my mailbox being the longest at 6 minutes. Unfortunately
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This week is a period of transition for me. I'm in the midst of a brief transition between employers, and also some lengthier transitions on the home network. (I really need to shore up some aspects of my home network, and provide a new network diagram.
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I'm trying to decide whether this title is more reflective of this post in particular, or the subject matter itself... Over the years, while participating in various technology forums, mailing lists and newsgroups, I have observed a frequent and disturbing
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Otherwise known as Vista vs the EU and the World: Part Three ... Here's a follow-up to my earlier Vista vs the World and Vista vs the Security Vendors posts, where I noted I greatly preferred a stronger, more secure base OS, even if that inhibited some
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Otherwise known as Vista vs the Selfish Security Vendors: Part Two ... Here's a follow-up to my earlier Vista vs the World post, where I noted I greatly preferred a stronger, more secure base OS, even if that inhibited some functionality for third-party
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