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Do you want to "save" Windows XP?

InfoWorld has started an online petition and campaign to "save" Windows XP from Microsoft's planned obsolescence at the end of the year. In the first 36 hours of the campaign, over 12,500 people had signed the petition and added comments to the Save XP Blog. From...

Tags: Petition, Microsoft Windows Vista, InfoWorld, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Andy Moon

Blog posts 2008-01-16

OINK ,OINK and BOW to the WOW!

InfoWorld has just published a blogspot that confirms what we all knew ,but M$ has been trying to cover up with spin.Vista is about twice as slow on the same hardware platform as XP.So all of you M$ shills out there on these discussion groups need to get a life...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), pgm554, OiNK, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, InfoWorld

Discussion threads 2007-11-20

Tom Yager looks like a pompous jerk

For anyone who subscribes to InfoWorld magazine, does anyone else think that Tom Yager's pictures make him look like a pompous jerk?Please don't get me wrong - I've never met Tom, and this is certainly not an attack on his writing - I find him to be very intelligent and...

Tags: Tom, Tom Yager

Discussion threads 2006-08-30

One bug a day-sounds like fun!

Metasploit will release one new browser bug a day in July.HD Moore of Metasploit wants to spotlight browser-based bugs. He claims, whether tongue-in-cheek I do not know, that he has enough bugs to release one a day for the next two and half years. http://metasploit.blogspot.com/2006/07/month-of-browser-bugs.htmlTalk about irresponsible. This to be...

Tags: Web browsers, Metasploit

Discussion threads 2006-07-20

MySQL 5.0 gets InfoWorld Review

7.7 Not too shabby for an open source database. MySQL is making up time quickly in regards to its comercial competitors. Check the review out here.

Tags: InfoWorld, MySQL, MySQL 5.0

Blog posts 2005-12-29

MySQL 5.0 gets InfoWorld Review

7.7 Not too shabby for an open source database. MySQL is making up time quickly in regards to its comercial competitors. Check the review out here.

Tags: InfoWorld, MySQL, MySQL 5.0

Blog posts 2005-12-29

Colin's Cornet

Colin's Cornetblog rootYahoo! to be a tech publisher ?According to Sam Whitmore's Media Survey , CNET.com editor-in-chief Patrick Houston departs today to join Yahoo! to head up a new tech editorial channel. At CNET, Patrick was responsible for a recent major makeover of CNET's Personal Technology Reviews. Sam...This post originally...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, PC World, web version, colincrawford@..., InfoWorld, Colin, external Website, Web site, CDATA

Discussion threads 2005-06-10

Take notice of three serious new BIND/DNS flaws

DNS runs the Internet, and in most cases, BIND is the underlying DNS software being used. Any BIND/DNS flaws are serious business, and now admins need to address three new, critical BIND vulnerabilities.Accordingto AusCERT Security Bulletin AL-2002.13 from Australian CERT, Internet Security Systems has discovered three serious vulnerabilities in the...

Tags: Domain names, John McCormick, BIND, vulnerability, DNS, Internet Software Consortium

Technical articles 2002-11-25

A history of contract work can make it a challenge to land a permanent position

If you have a history of contract work on your resume, you may be jeopardizing your chances at a permanent position. InfoWorld's Margaret Steen examines the issue in her Career Currents column, reprinted here with permission.Will contracting now hurt your chances of getting a full-time job later?When I explored the...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Margaret Steen, permanent position, hiring manager, hiring, job

Technical articles 1999-08-30

Career Currents: Readers explain ways that entry-level workers can benefit IT departments

Entry level workers offer IT departments more than just a training opportunity. InfoWorld's Margaret Steen reveals readers' views on entry-level workers.What are the arguments for hiring entry-level IT workers?I hear from many readers about this column and the Enterprise Careers section. One of the clearest messages I've gotten is that...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, benefit, career, Margaret Steen, worker, hiring

Technical articles 1999-08-05

Career Currents: Contract positions - going for the money may not always be the wisest move

So, when was the last time you had to pay for your own health insurance? InfoWorld's Margaret Steen says that before you jump at those high hourly rates for contract work, you better be prepared for uncertainty and a bunch of new headaches.This week's question: What are the pros and...

Tags: Professional development, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Insurance, Margaret Steen, job, career, permanent position

Technical articles 1999-07-30

Additional Resources

Better than your native SQL Backup

Are you running SQL Server 7 and above and not happy with the native backup service provided by SQL Server but you aren’t ready for or do not need the more advanced features of backup software that requires an agent? Then Imceda's LiteSpeed just might be what you need. InfoWorld...

Tags: backup, LiteSpeed, Mark W. Kaelin, software, SQL, SQL backup

Discussion threads 2004-10-19

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

Infoworld recently posted an article about BPO and how it is now opening and expanding. Article link: http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/05/09/19FEbpo_1.html?source=NLC-SR2005-05-10I am curious what your thoughts are as we continue to grow outsourcing. Instead of buying software from vendors to do payroll or HR, companies are outsourcing to companies specializing in these items....

Tags: Business process outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, IT Services, BPO, business process

Discussion threads 2005-05-11

IT Talent Shortage -Again

Hey guys and gals, the trade press propaganda machine is at it again saying that there is a shortage of IT professionals.Check this out from InfoWorld:http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2007/10/giving_voice_to.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2007-10-25If you have time ,please give them feedback as to just how much of a "shortage" there really is.This is the same horse excrement Bill...

Tags: Strategy, Benefits, pgm554, IT talent, information technology

Discussion threads 2007-10-25

Are you ready for the next version of IP?

Experts have been talking about IP addresses for several years now, because the current version of IP limits the number of such addresses to a theoretical maximum of 4.7 billion. Though the number of Internet connected devices is much higher than that already, we have not run out of...

Tags: IPv6, IP, Networking, Telecommunications, Andy Moon

Blog posts 2008-04-17

PLEASE HELP SAVE XP

Unless you like Vista for some un-godly reason....Please navigate to the link posted below and sign the petition requesting that Microsoft extend its support for XP! http://weblog.infoworld.com/save-xp/

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn)

Discussion threads 2008-04-14

Another Commercial DBMS goes Open

First it was Sybase. Now CA has joined the Open Source DBMS band wagon with R3. Check out this link: http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/11/01/HNingresr3_1.html

Tags: Commercial, DBMS, Open, Ramon Padilla Jr., software

Discussion threads 2004-11-02

Identity Management Shootout

I love it when magazines take best in class solutions and put themthrough the wringer, don't you? Infoworld did just that withIdentity Management Solutions and you can find the interesting resultsof their showdown right here.

Tags: identity management

Blog posts 2005-10-07

Pharming

http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/04/01/HNdnspharming_1.htmlHow serious is this going to be?Can't tell...since it requires a login to view the articleArticleI googled it up and didn't need a login. Anyway, techrepublic has aan article, too, so I have posted to that article.

Tags: networking, pharming, Roger99a

Discussion threads 2005-04-05

Microsoft responds to Save XP petitition

TechRepublic blogger Andy Moon reported a few weeks ago about an online petition started by InfoWorld to "save" Windows XP. Andy asked whether such a move is even necessary. Well, it appears that the over 75,000 users who have signed the petition to date think so. ...

Tags: Petition, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Paul Mah

Blog posts 2008-02-07