Amid the worst job market in 25 years, IT is holding steady. Most CIOs are maintaining their current staffing levels; while a few are hiring specialists who have in-demand IT skills. Overall, companies are so dependent on IT that they can’t lay off the people who keep their data center operations humming, and they’re loath [...]
According to the Federal Trade Commission, approximately nine million Americans have their identities stolen each year. Data theft is a growing issue that can cost consumers and businesses millions of dollars repairing the damage to their name and credit record. Cintas Corporation today issued a list of the top 10 tips for protecting business data:
If you’ve been following the top 10 UK PC games chart lately then you’ll no doubt be utterly unsurprised to hear that Football Manager 2010 still holds the top spot, with all of the top five games unchanged in position since the last time we checked the charts.
Macs are notoriously reliable computers, but even the best computers sometimes have problems: be it a hard drive crash, Mac OS X problem, or a more extensive hardware failure. Having the right diagnostic, repair, and data recovery tools can make all the difference for recovering your data and for diagnosing or resolving issues. In this [...]
A former Hewlett-Packard worker could barely wait for their non-disclosure-agreement to end so they could spill 14 company secrets to The Consumerist
Are laser printers really better than inkjets? Do you have to use paper manufactured by your printer vendor? Are printers really good for only three years? We explode some myths about printers / scanners.
Virus, Trojan, Worm – the very words conjure up crossbones and skulls, the symbol of danger. These malicious programs are the scourge of the Internet, the proof that every innovative and useful technology has an equivalent downside – one that has the most adverse consequences at times. They steal your passwords, corrupt your files memory [...]
“The Clapco D29 is the most impenetrable lock on the market today. It has only one design flaw… the door… must be closed!” –Seinfeld (1990) After installing an expensive alarm system in his apartment and then getting robbed, Jerry Seinfeld learned a valuable lesson: no matter how good the security system, if it isn’t used [...]
1.5 years ago I published the original ‘Top 10 weirdest USB drives‘. Over 500 000 people have visited the original page, and it included all of the sushi drives, the thumb drive and the now classical barbi drive. I’ve received quite many comments and emails about the list, and I know that some of you [...]
Today I am going to bring you a giant list of tricks for World of Warcraft which other people will not. A lot of other sites attempt to make you ‘purchase’ these tricks, only leaving you ripped off for your money. Why bother paying for something which you could easily figure out for yourself? I [...]
Seeing as I spend a lot of time at the computer for my work it seems only fitting that I describe my top 5 techniques on how I keep files, folders and programs organized. Note that I use these techniques on Windows XP though I’m sure they work/can be adapted to other Windows platforms.
You can never be too safe these days. Viruses, spyware, rootkits, remote exploits, you just never know what security issue is going to be your downfall. Thats why it is important as a Linux administrator to have an understanding of some of the best Linux security tools available to you. In this article, you will [...]
Presents are meant to bring happiness and joy to the recipients, but when those same gifts make their way into a company office they can cause headaches and despair for an IT staff. Here’s eWEEK Labs list of the gifts your IT department would rather not see coming through the office doors in January.
PowerShell’s great. I’m fired up about the opportunity to use .NET objects from simple scripts. I’ll admit I’m still getting up to speed with it, but I’m totally sold on PowerShell. However, it’s not installed on a lot of servers I work with, and I still do a lot of my “clumsy developer attempting DBA [...]
Ontrack Data Recovery has unveiled its annual Top Ten list of the strangest and funniest computer mishaps in 2005. Taken from a global poll of Ontrack data recovery experts, this year’s list of bizarre data disasters is even more incredible when you consider that in each case cited, Ontrack actually recovered the data. “Ontrack Data [...]
We’ve all been there. You’re an hour into the flight and Ross Geller is about to say the wrong name at his wedding, Bruce Willis is about to find that his shirt is blood-stained, or the guy in the black cape is about to bypass the need for a Skywalker family DNA test. But you [...]
A bit of IT department humor that may or may not be lost on you
Many new car innovations have already arrived or are fast approaching, promising to bring in a new automotive age. Here are the technologies that are set to debut in the coming decade: When it comes to developing amazing automotive technologies, the industry is on over-drive. Electronics are set to supplant most mechanical systems, and even [...]
