Sponsored White Papers, Webcasts, and Downloads
TechRepublic Resources
- Symantec offers compensation for update fiasco
- So what do you think? What kind of compensation should Symantec be paying out?RE: Symantec offers compensation for update fiascoNorton products-services have been getting progressively worse over the years since Symantec bought them. "Norton" on products used to mean quality now it just means trouble. For anti-virus...
- Tags: SECURITY, Sophos Plc., paulmah@..., Symantec Corp., update fiasco, compensation, Norton Co., fiasco, VERITAS Software Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-27
- Microsoft's splintered DRM will kill Zune
- I thought things couldnt get any worse for Microsoft after the Vista licensing fiasco, the WGA fiasco, and the XBox 360 fiasco but this one takes the cake. Ill even bet that the folks at Apple are ROTFL at this latest Microsoft misstep. Microsofts own Channel...
- Tags: digital-rights management, fiasco, Fun Stuff, Hardware, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Zune, Plays
- Blog posts 2006-11-08
- Genuine windows license fiasco continues
- Since June 1, 2006, a day that will go down in infamy...I have been plagued by Windows (2003 server SP/1 and XP SP/2) Update Validation errors and download failures attributed to Windows Update; corrupt or unknown certificates and repeatedly received reports that valid software is not genuine. I really dislike...
- Tags: fiasco, software, Genuine Windows, xp, windows server 2003, windows update, wus, software assurance, Product Key, Beoweolf, windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2006-06-14
Additional Resources
- Who is really to blame for the San Fran network lockout?
- A strange sort of techno-drama is playing out in the city of San Francisco, California right now. The blame for the fiasco may not be as easily assigned as it first appeared. by Chad Perrin
- Tags: Felony, Network, Admin Password, FiberWAN, DA, Networking, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-07-19
- Outlook Express 6 fiasco
- Was trying to move/export mail from the arcane local settings to shared documents.The only export that worked was addresses. The account IAF could not be imported. None of the mail folders would open. OE6 would not open!I bought DBXtract, which was no help. Now/still getting "in use by another program...
- Tags: Groupware, ama3@..., Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0, Microsoft Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook
- Discussion threads 2007-10-10
- E-mail fiasco by leading Web host results in unrecoverable e-mails
- Ever wondered why dirty, white shoes become black, but black shoes become white? Or for that matter, why incriminating e-mails deleted by criminals get recovered via computer forensics, but e-mails that you want to keep get trashed for good? Don't laugh, because this was precisely what happened in the United...
- Tags: Web, Mailbox, Problem, Backup, Fasthost, E-mail, Online Communications, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- Email fiasco by leading web host results in unrecoverable mails
- Why not share with us your backup strategy for emails, both old and new.Why not share with us your backup strategy for emails, both old and new.one day of backups?who overwrites their backups every day? no rotation, not even a week?Yes,sounds quite ridiculousFor a hosting company not to have regular...
- Tags: Backups, paulmah@..., Web, backup, backup strategy, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Sony details Blu-ray plans, new product releases
- Alright, another standard...The thing that can truly kill off Sony's plans is whether the 'copy protect rootkit' fiasco will blossom into a total rejection of DRM-laden formats throughout the consumer landscape. If HD-DVD offers less DRM hassles than BluRay, look for BluRay to go down in flames. And if that's...
- Tags: Blu-ray disc, BluRay, drm, networking, oromis, Sony Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-14
- Anyone considering or doing ITIL training should read this
- "More on ITIL Version 3 certification from Pink Elephant, so good on Pink for giving us some transparency into their thinking. Unfortunately that thinking is a bit alarming. OGC's and APMG's failure to act in the ongoing fiasco which is the ITIL certification industry right now is unacceptable....It confirms the...
- Tags: Process improvement, IT Services, twohills, ITIL, certification
- Discussion threads 2007-04-30
- XTweak: The Right Tool for the Job?
- Other dogs in this fight?I think that is a less appropriate euphamism to use these days with the whole Michael Vick, dog fighting thing in the news, don't you? Please be a bit more considerate next time.on topic?...this euphemism has been around for ages...long before the Michael Vick fiasco.Does anyone...
- Tags: job, tool, jpc1958_98@..., Michael Vick
- Discussion threads 2007-08-28
- IT News Digest Week in Review, October 26, 2007
- Keep up with some of the top news stories of the week, including TechRepublic members' responses, in the IT News Digest Week in Review podcast. The stories that are covered this week include an e-mail fiasco in the United Kingdom, a 911 hack, and out-of-control computerized anti-aircraft gun, Windows 7...
- Tags: Information Technology, E-mail, Strategy, Podcasts, Online Communications, Management, Internet, Sonja Thompson
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Cisco IOS Vulnerability...
- Well ladies and gentlemen, below is a link that discusses Cisco IOS and that it can be 0wned...Better than that, Cisco knows about this and is trying to hide it.Read up, get a hold of Cisco, if you use them, and ring their slimy necks...http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11259Pretty cheesed it was pulled from...
- Tags: bof, cisco, Cisco IOS, Cisco Systems Inc., compromise, ios, mrafrohead@..., security
- Discussion threads 2005-07-28
- The TechRepublic "new post" counting monkey wants more bananas!
- :^0UpdatesDate ---------- Action06/29/2007 49 new posts to the discussion Symantec offers compensation for update fiasco06/29/2007 19 new posts to the discussion A challenge to the Linux Users of the World06/29/2007 278 new posts to the discussion The last word on the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design debate:06/29/2007 10 new posts to...
- Tags: Absolutely, new post
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Open Source Back Doors
- absolutelyIt's not just the NSA. It's entirely possible that the NSA may have mandated backdoors installed in software like MS Windows, but there are two reasons I don't even bother worrying about that if/when I need to use Windows (a distinct rarity these days -- only for Guild Wars...
- Tags: apotheon, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, networking, NSA, open source, open source report, security, software, window, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- 10 ways to make meetings more effective
- Sounds like a major disconnect on their end the New Jersey peopleLet me see if I get this: that guy in New Jersey says, "Calvin, come up for this meeting, because we want to learn more." Then you go there, and his boss says, "Sorry, we're not interested"?If...
- Tags: ng_kai_choy@..., Now Let
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- CA antivirus deletes Windows 2003 file
- I've said it for years...CA or Computer Associates makes software that I do not care to purchase or ever install on my own machines or ever consider promoting as a product for my friends or co-workers to purchase/use.Lately it comes bundled with the latest Dell desktops, whenever my friends /...
- Tags: Computer Associates International Inc., security, antivirus, windows 2003, ca, UncleRob, CA antiviru, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2003
- Discussion threads 2006-09-06
- Is Windows Vista too "robust" for the world?
- According to Peter Gutmann's resourceful and very well written, "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" Vista's fallout is about to lock up a once open computing platform.http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html"In July 2006, Cory Doctorow published an analysis of the anti-competitive nature of Apple's iTunes copy-restriction system which looked at the benefits...
- Tags: Josharghhhh, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, vista itunes windows microsoft apple hfs hdcp media center drivers security, windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-24
- John Dvorak of PCMag disses OLPC
- John C. Dvorak of PCMag apparently did not have too high an opinion of the OLPC, and he is not afraid to let it be be known. In his strongly worded article last week titled: One laptop per child doesn't change the World, he ridiculed the project...
- Tags: John Dvorak, One Laptop Per Child Project, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- F1 Fiasco!
- What happened yestarday was all the Michelin teams faults. By F1 rules they are allowed to bring 2 different compound tires to all races. They choose to bring 1, which Michelin tech said MIGHT not make it to the end. Why change the track just before the race so an...
- Tags: F1, Lost_one, Michelin, off-topic, team, tire
- Discussion threads 2005-06-20
- Vista can you hear me?
- Windows expert Deb Shinder has been chatting with Vista lately--and Vista has been listening. Kinda.Once she got past the desktop microphone fiasco and opted for a headset, and once Vista learned to interpret her Texas accent, Deb had good success piloting the OS and various programs--as well as dictating text--using...
- Tags: Deb Shinder, speech recognition, Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- << Previous
- page 1 of 1
- Next >>
