- Images: Tsunamis, hurricanes hit 'Second Life'
- The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launches an immersive, interactive 3D presence in the virtual world....
- Image galleries, 2007-04-27
- Photos: Prosthetic arms at play
- A breakthrough prosthetic arm developed through a federal program lets the patient use sensory perception, rather than relying on vision....
- Image galleries, 2007-04-27
- 10 mistakes managers make during job interviews
- By BNET staff This article originally appeared in BNET's Now Hiring: Brilliant People special feature. It's also available as a PDFdownload . Hiring is oneof the hardest parts of managing a team. A lot is riding on the initialmeeting, and if...
- Article, 2007-04-27
- 10 mistakes managers make during job interviews
- Ah - memories#7: You stress the candidate out -- brought back a memory.I was interviewing with a local accounting firm downtown, when the CPA in charge pulled a hand gun out of his desk drawer and laid it on the table. He did this with no...
- Discussion, 2007-04-27
- The dumb things organizations do to mess up team building
- I ran across an article the other day on about.com, written by Human Resources specialist Susan M. Heathfield. In the article, Heathfield cites 20 dumb things that organizations can do to screw up their relationship with the people who work for...
- Blog, 2007-04-26
- Images: Barbie's greatest hits?
- Mattel is trying to reach out to the next iteration of girls with an MP3 player designed to look like a doll that also hooks into an online virtual world....
- Image galleries, 2007-04-27
- Shorten those URLs
- Every site needs a built in equivalent to TinyURL. I have come to this realization because of the way URLs are used by many (if not most) Web users. The days of people typing in an URL are over, with the exception of a simple domain name. Raise your...
- Blog, 2007-04-26
- Office feature bloat is no skin off my nose
- In is recent blog entry, fellow blogger David Berlind has been all over Microsofts "Office bloat" and is convinced Google is in a better position to understand users needs for an Office application. Despite the fact that Microsoft collected 1.2...
- Blog, 2007-04-26
- Office feature bloat is no skin off my nose
- Collaboration is the killer feature As David pointed out, the collaboration features in Google Apps are the differentiator. Just yesterday, my manager and I worked together on a simple spreadsheet to compare long term toner costs for different...
- Discussion, 2007-04-26
- PC buyers aim to cut the 'crapware'
- When large businesses buy new PCs, they often wipe the hard drives clean and install a fresh copy of Windows, along with the other software they want workers to have. Some consumers, frustrated with all of the trial software, desktop icons and...
- News items, 2007-04-26
- The whys and hows of moonlighting
- According to the latest report form the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, In 2002, 5.3 percent of U.S. workers across the nation held more than one job. (The bureau defines multiple jobholders as "employed persons who had either two or more jobs as a...
- Blog, 2007-04-26
- Viewing non-present devices in Windows XP's Device Manager
- Preventing Users from Internet Access Could it be possible that if port 80 can be removed from the services file.will this prevent users from acessing the web-Will this make the operating system unstable a valuable 'tric' ! Thanks to this method I...
- Discussion, 2007-04-26
- 10 mistakes managers make during job interviews
- Conducting effective interviews requires a balance of instinct, insight, and some solid preparation. It also helps if you don't make certain blunders, such as monopolizing the conversation, asking leading questions, or applying too much (or too...
- Download, 2007-04-27
- What's the best Cisco router configuration and management tool?
- CiscoWorks Cisco Works, or rather if you wait long enough it might! With only 1 user on a mid range server with 4G of ram, the performance sucks to such an extent I gave up and used some of my other tools. Kiwi products, syslog and cattools work...
- Discussion, 2007-04-27
- This Friday's Yuk
- Scary fortune cookiesThe Top 10 Least Desirable Fortunes in a Fortune CookieWe know where you live.You will need good reading material in approximately 15 minutes.Everyone's meal today is on you!The "special sauce" came from the floor!Guess what...
- Discussion, 2007-04-27
- 10 MySQL variables that you should monitor
- This article is also available as a TechRepublic download.Regardless of whether youre running a single MySQL server or a cluster of multiple servers, one thing you are always interested in is squeezing the maximum performance out of your system....
- Blog, 2007-05-02
- Configure Cisco routers to use Active Directory authentication -- the Windows side
- If your organization uses Windows, you probably use yourActive Directory (AD) username and password to log onto your PC every day. Sowhy do you need separate credentials on your routers? Even if you just need to remember an extra password, it canbe...
- Article, 2007-05-02
- Pen on paper faciliates learning, but is there a right way to write?
- The keyboard didnt become my friend until I was almost 30 years old. In fact, I would write an 11-page report in college with paper and pencil, and then either painstakingly hunt and peck my way through it on the computer or have someone type it out...
- Blog, 2007-05-02
- Outlook Web Access 2007: Get user information quickly
- Have you everneeded to get a phone number or manager's name for a coworker... but you were onthe road and didn?t know where to start? With Outlook Web Access 2007, thiskind of information is right at your fingertips. The OWA 2007 Address...
- Article, 2007-05-02
- Restoring files with Vista's Restore Files wizard
- All versions of Windows Vista come withthe Back Up Files wizard that is designed to make itvery easy for you to back up all of your data files. The Restore Files wizard isalso designed to make it very easy for you to restore files from your...
- Article, 2007-05-02
- Understanding USB topology in Windows XP
- As long as you have enough power, attaching many USB devicesto your Windows XP system can't cause degradation in performance -- even if youattach as many as 127 USB devices at one time. While it's unlikely for that many devices to be connected ata...
- Article, 2007-05-02
- New legislation would require IT pros to report child abuse
- IT professionals could soon join doctors, counselors, and teachers as professionals that are legally required to report child abuse and neglect, according to a new AP story in USA Today: At least five states — Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma,...
- Blog, 2007-05-02
- Video: Learn physics by watching Spider-Man fail
- Physicist-slash-fanboy Dr. Jim Kakalios explains how the death of Gwen Stacy, one of the seminal events in the Spider-Man comic book mythos, does and doesnt comply with the laws of Newtonian physics. These scientific principles bear little to no...
- Blog, 2007-05-02
- Will the I-Spy bill pass and become law?
- I-Spy, with my little eye, a bill that -- if passed -- would sentence a person convicted of malicious spyware-related activities with up to five years in prison. The Internet Spyware Prevention Act (I-Spy) was proposed in mid-March by Reps. Zoe...
- Blog, 2007-05-02
- My best tips for leading an IT department to success
- Ive put some of my best leadership tips into a new article called "10 tips for leading your team to peak performance." As I mention at the top of the article these tips are aimed at leaders who are managing knowledge workers and/or project managers,...
- Blog, 2007-05-02
- Even in Net litigation, it's all about location
- The Web site DontDateHimGirl.com allows women to make anonymous postings about specific men. So it was that a defamation lawsuit got filed with respect to statements made on the site about one particular man.But the case was just dismissed for...
- News items, 2007-05-02
- outlook express 6
- I have three computers at home not networked to each other just using the same modem and internet provider. On the original computer I set an account for my Mom before we got the other two. She can't get the mail piling up in her mailbox unless she...
- Discussion, 2007-05-01
- XY Scatter Chart
- how can i format a perticular point in the XY Scatter Chart in crystal report using vb.net?Im using a stored procedure to collect values for the chart and need to format the average value point. pls help....
- Discussion, 2007-05-01
- Inspiron 1200 Display Problems
- I have a Insperion 1200 Obviously lol and i was useing it one moreing just fine and dandy and i had shut it down because i was going out and when i came home i turned it back on and to my surprise something was wrong the letters were all messed...
- Discussion, 2007-05-01
- Outlook cannot connect (UserID/Password) not excepting
- I have a exchange server I had configure it 4 months back since that time it was working fine but from yesterday I am facing one problem, All of the services of exchange are online even the mail boxes store is mounted and there is no error in the...
- Discussion, 2007-05-01
