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I’ve said it for a few years now, but host-based antivirus is really not working out anymore. Not with its reliance on signatures to detect malware. Recently, several prominent antivirus vendors have experienced problems with faulty virus definitions:
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This is the sixth part in a series of articles tracking the implementation of virtualization on my home network . Planning for the project originally started at the end of 2007, with some equipment purchased in early 2008, but the bulk of the work
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It has been a very productive year so far, as it pertains to my ongoing Home Network Re-Engineering Project . In fact, the past few days have been especially productive. I was finally able to fix the hardware problem that prevented my old domain
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For the first time in over a decade, my home network saw no major improvements for almost 2 years. Let’s just say that the past few years have been interesting… From March 2008 until December 2009, several major undertakings that I had planned for
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Software as a Service, or SaaS , is seen and marketed as a way to remove or reduce the complexities and cost associated with local enterprise software deployments, especially where such software has a desktop installation facet to it. As is typical with
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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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The prevailing wisdom says that technology is supposed to be getting simpler all the time. This belief appears to be pervasive with many corporate leaders who insist that there should be less of a need for expensive technology experts in an organization
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Today, I came across a very interesting tool for generating a word cloud – basically, a visual representation of the frequency of words in a block of text, just as you might find in the tag cloud of a blog. I was first made aware of this tool from
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Two of my favorite tools for online storage and collaboration are DropBox and Box.net . Because each product offers features that the other lacks, and because they appear to be attacking the challenges of collaboration different perspectives,
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It’s only the second of April, and already I’m dealing with chaos. And not the kind I expected, either. We’ve all been waiting for Conflicker to do something this month , but so far, nothing has occurred. This is not a bad thing, mind
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As the connectivity between various systems becomes more intricate and complex, the risk of tricky configuration problems grows considerably. When such problems finally manifest themselves, they are usually harder to identify and resolve.
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I’m interested in finding out how many people want to test Windows 7 , either for their home networks or their business networks (small or large) . I have created a poll via LinkedIn where I hope to capture this information. If you are a LinkedIn
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On June 26, Microsoft released Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 to manufacturing. You can download it today! Now, I can really finish up with my home network virtualization project , which has been languishing because I haven't had a lot of free time.
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Right now, I belong to a large number of social networks (more on that later). For the most part, I'm really only active on LinkedIn , but as more people connect to me on Plaxo and Facebook , my profile has been getting some action on those networks
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It has been officially available for a couple weeks now, but some of us have been running it for over a month at this point . Of course, outside of the MSDN and TechNet avenues, the only way to get it was due to a Microsoft mistake . In any event,
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