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- TechRepublic Author Biography
TechProGuild Senior Editor John Sheesley has supported networks since 1986 when he had the opportunity to work with 30 IBM XTs networked using Novell NetWare at the University of South Florida. Since then, he's worked with the Jefferson County Police Department and Genlyte-Thomas Group, both based in Louisville, KY. At...- more about John Sheesley »
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- Speaking of getting acquired
- Just yesterday I posited the question over whether HP's purchase of EDS was a good idea or bad idea based on HP's history of acquiring Compaq. Then coming into work this morning, I was greeted at the front desk by our trusty receptionist Mae with three words that never bode...
- Tags: CNET Networks Inc., Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Finance, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- 10 new blogs after CBS buys TechRepublic
- Well, by now it's pretty much common knowledge that CBS has decided to buy TechRepublic's parent company CNET. To ensure that TechRepublic remains a good fit with the rest of CBS, we'll be launching the following blogs as part of our New Fall Schedule: CSI: TechRepublic ...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Blog, CBS Broadcasting Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Blogging, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Internet, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Will HP repeat its history by buying EDS?
- HP made a lot of news the other day by announcing its purchase of EDS. This isn't the first time HP has gone on a buying spree to extend its business. Most of you probably remember HP's purchase of Compaq back in 2002. The question is whether HP has learned...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Compaq Computer Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Tobak gets it wrong - You're not a bunch of sheep
- A funny thing happens when you work for 'The Media'. You get called all sorts of stuff by people that disagree with you. One moment you're a _______ shill, the next you're a ______ basher. Fill in the the blank however you want: Microsoft, Linux, Apple, Dell, IBM, HP,...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Perception, Tobak, Robots, Strategy, Linux, Financial Accounting, Blogging, Emerging Technologies, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Internet, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- An old Exchange tip highlights feature creep and overlap
- Exchange grew from a simple email server to a complete collaboration and groupware package over the course of the last 12 years. Today's Classic Tip comes from TechRepublic's Exchange Tip Techmail dated May 12, 2000, and covers the popular Public Folders feature that's been around since the first version of...
- Tags: Folder, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Servers, Software, Hardware, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Who made the worst PC software ever?
- A couple of weeks ago, I asked the question: Who made the worst PC ever? The results were loud and clear: Packard-Bell was the landslide winner as Worst PC Company Ever. That rather begs the question of: Who made the worst PC software ever? Now, for purposes...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., PC-software, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Problems with XP SP3 highlight the need to beware of updates
- It has taken Microsoft four years to ship another service pack for Windows XP. After all that time, you might think that they'd get it right. However, even as SP3 went to RTM, problems cropped up with SP3, including problems that it caused with Microsoft's own Dynamics line of software....
- Tags: Software, Strategy, Microsoft Windows XP, Automatic Update, Service Pack, Microsoft Corp., Patches, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- What Windows Vista might have been
- Check out this concept video for Longhorn, the official codename for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. There's a mini-history of Windows at the beginning, showing the progression of Windows on the desktop as well as some of the innovations and hysteria that accompanied Windows 95. From there it launches...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Video, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Corporate Communications, Software, Marketing, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- You may be a conformist and not even know it
- We like to think that we're all individuals and the things that drive our decisions are made rationally, independent of what others say, and from a totally objective viewpoint. Marketers, of course, know that isn't the case and do what they can to use all sorts of tools to sway...
- Tags: Decision, Productivity, Recruitment & Selection, C/C++, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- An Internet Cafe on Everest? TechRepublic got there first.
- News.com has a report about an Internet cafe that has recently opened on Mt. Everest. China Mobile has opened a business office and provides Internet Access on Mount Qomolangma in Tibet. I just thought that this would be a good time to, in...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Tibet, China Mobile Ltd., Cafe, Internet, Blogging, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- The Windows Registry has a long history of problems
- The registry was first introduced towards the end of Windows 3.1 as a way to central manage configuration changes and get away from the endless .INI files that plagued the Windows 3.x environment. The problem has always been how to manage the registry and how to keep it from becoming...
- Tags: Registry, RegClean, Windows Registry, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Operating Systems, Software, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- Microsoft shows the importance of not wavering in negotiations
- Over the weekend, Microsoft walked away from its takeover attempt of Yahoo. Lots of punditry has gone on since then as to whether it was a good idea or a bad idea. What's more interesting is strength of Microsoft's resolve in the decision making process. Clearly...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Free Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tools & Techniques, Finance, Investment, Management, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- The things I go through for you people
- The other day, I mentioned the F-19 Photo Gallery I put together for the site showing just how much of a disconnect there seemed to be between the memory of old PC games and Reality. What I didn't expect was how much of a challenge it was to put the...
- Tags: John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Do you pay attention to software EULAs?
- The EULA End User License Agreement is one of those necessary evils when it comes to installing new software. You either accept the terms, along with all of the potentially odious bits that go along with it, or you don't, which means you don't get to install the software at...
- Tags: Software, EULA, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- To USB or not to USB, that's the security question
- In ITDojo, Bill Detwiler just outlined the steps necessary to boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive. Likewise, you can also create bootable flash drives for Linux and other operating systems. Booting from USB is relatively recent development in the PC world, and as such it adds one more...
- Tags: Security, USB Flash Drive, USB, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- The first stealth fighter retires, but the game flies on
- The Air Force recently retired the F-117 Nighthawk, the original stealth fighter. Intended to be invisible to the radar of the Soviet Union. the F-117 was designed in the late 1970's. Lockheed Martin won the contract to build the F-117 and delivered the first one back in 1982. ...
- Tags: Stealth Fighter, Games, Personal Technology, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Backward compatibility problems have long plagued Microsoft Office users
- With every new version of Office, Micrsoft keeps doing things to 'improve' the product. Mostly these are in the form of new features like Office 2007's ribbon, which is supposed to make it easier to use, but just gets in the way. One of the things that...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Font, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Office Suites, Software, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- The more things change, the more they stay the same
- One of the things I like to do in my Classics Rock blog is to bring back content that we created back in the dawn of TechRepublic to show how little has actually changed in the IT field. Often times, tips which we created for old versions of Office or...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Gartner Inc., Change Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Using Second Life for decision support
- Digging around YouTube a bit, I stumbled across this video made by Dan Powers who created a virtual world in Second Life called Decision Support World. This is a virtual world that Dan set up to allow people to get together to model, collaborate, and share ideas about new projects....
- Tags: Second Life, Decision Support, Data Mining, Tools & Techniques, Corporate Communications, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Marketing, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Check out the almostEverest photo gallery
- Not to beat the almostEverest thing into the ground after yesterday's post about it, but digging around the content archives, I managed to find some screenshots that were taken during and in preparation for the trip. You can see these by checking out the almostEverest Revisted photo gallery. ...
- Tags: Trip, Photograph, John Sheesley
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
