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- R.I.P. - Kurt Vonnegut
- My first "rock star" authorKurt Vonnegut was the first author I can remember making an effort to follow. I read "Cats Cradle" and wanted to read everything he wrote.He was my first "rock star" author and I miss him already.
- Tags: Mark W. Kaelin, Kurt Vonnegut
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
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- R.I.P. - Kurt Vonnegut
- One of the great literary science fiction writers of all time has passed on: Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84. I am hardly qualified to say much on the matter, especially when so many more eloquent, informed, and important folk have laid out such fine words on...
- Tags: Novel, Lesson, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-04-12
- Battlestar Galactica and the "new" sci-fi
- The second season of the new Battlestar Galactica debuted Friday, smack in the middle of the San Diego International Comic-Con, granddaddy of all sci-fi/comic/collectible conventions. Not suprisingly, several publications reacted to this convergence by dusting off their canned fluff pieces about sci-fi and Galactica, which ...
- Tags: Star Trek, Science Fiction, SFSignal, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2005-07-18
- MSDN Webcast: Office System Developers Conference Keynote With Bill Gates and Kurt DelBene (Level 100)
- The 2007 Microsoft Office system is a breakthrough solution platform that includes clients, servers, services, and tools. Built on XML and a set of new extensibility technologies, it gives the users the solution building blocks needed to meet today's business demands more quickly than building from scratch. The presenters of...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Vision, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Strategy, Office Suites, Software, Management
- Webcasts 2006-03-20
- MCT Success Story: Bill Ferguson
- Kurt Honbarrier, vice president of operations for TeKnowledgy Summit, a Microsoft Certified Technical Education Center CTEC in Birmingham, Alabama, describes Bill Ferguson as one of his best trainers. TeKnowledgy Summit's customers - including Mercedes Benz and US Pipe - are impressed and put at ease when they're told that Ferguson...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., TeKnowledgy Summit
- Case studies
- Cannot run Windows Update or MBSA 2.0
- I cannot seem to figure out why the Windows Update site will not work for one of my servers (Win2k3 SP1). When I access the site I get the following message:"The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below...
- Tags: kdyck, MBSA 2.0, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Update, windows
- Q&A 2006-07-27
- IT pros take a cautious approach to unions
- Would unions be good for the IT industry, or would they stifle the freedom associated with working in the tech world? Find out what several IT pros think about this growing debate and why it's important to make an informed decision.Having spent most of my career in the IT sector,...
- Tags: Union, Employee, Information Technology, Bill Detwiler, pervasive workplace, TechRepublic Inc.
- Technical articles 2001-02-14
- Don't waste your time supporting problems that don't exist
- We're moving some staff into a new suite of offices, which means that we're shopping for new furniture. This is also a great opportunity for us to choose some new workstation equipment to standardize on, and I've been talking with a very competent sales rep that has been helping us...
- Tags: Office, Kurt, Jim, Keyboards, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Peripherals, Sales, William Jones
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Modify a .ini file with this member-contributed admin script
- TechRepublic asked members to submit their favorite Network Administration scripts. You can use this script to modify a .ini file. One of the favorite methods that administrators use to automate repetitive tasks and push out changes across a network is with scripting. As a result, administrators often...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., Administrator, Script, Networking, Network Administration
- Download resources 2005-10-13
- IT pros take a cautious approach to unions
- Would unions be good for the IT industry, or would they stifle the freedom associated with working in the tech world? Find out what several IT pros think about this growing debate and why it's important to make an informed decision.Having spent most of my career in the IT sector,...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Bill Detwiler, information technology, Pervasive Workplace, Pervasive, IT Union, workplace
- Technical articles 2001-02-14
- Improve productivity, reduce costs, and deliver more effective solutions by practicing iterative software project management
- Iterative processes have gained widespread acceptance because they help software developers reduce risk and cost, manage change, improve productivity, and deliver more effective, timely solutions. But conventional project management techniques don't work well in iterative projects, and newer iterative management techniques have, thus far, been poorly documented. Learn how to...
- Tags: Software, Technique, Software Project Management, Addison-Wesley, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, Software Development, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Software/Web Development
- Book chapters 2006-09-27
- Cannot run Windows Update or MBSA 2.0
- I cannot seem to figure out why the Windows Update site will not work for one of my servers (Win2k3 SP1). When I access the site I get the following message:"The website has encountered a problem and cannot display the page you are trying to view. The options provided below...
- Tags: Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, Microsoft Windows Update, MBSA 2.0, kdyck, windows, Microsoft Windows, server
- Q&A 2006-07-27
- Does your support staff have a hard time estimating large work efforts?
- Builder.com columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with questions about project management problems. He shares his tips on a host of project management issues in this Q&A format.Question:I am a team leader for a group of nine developers. In general, we do support and enhancements,...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Tom Mochal, project management
- Technical articles 2003-02-10
- Modify .ini files to reflect system-side updates with this admin script
- TechRepublicrecently asked members to submit their favorite Network Administration scriptsfor possible publication. One of the first to make a submission was KurtHudson. For his effort, Kurt earned $100 and the satisfaction of seeing hisscript published on the Internet.Earn $100 for your admin scriptLet us payyou for your original scripts so...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Kurt Hudson
- Technical articles 2005-10-13
- The ultimate science fiction book meme
- Once again, SFSignal has content so good I simply must steal it: A comprehensive SF book meme. Below are my answers. Feel free to copy and paste your own responses in the comments thread, or in your own blog space just be sure to give SFSignal attribution.Science Fiction, Fantasy or...
- Tags: Author, Fantasy, Books-A-Million, Asimov, Dozois, Ender, Blogging, Games, Storage, Internet, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-02-16
- Helping your support staff estimate larger work efforts
- TechRepublic columnist Tom Mochal receives dozens of e-mails each week from members with questions about project management problems. He shares his tips on a host of project management issues in this Q&A format.Question:I am a team leader for a group of nine developers. In general, we do support and enhancements,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Project management, Tools & Techniques, analogy, Tom Mochal, technique
- Technical articles 2003-07-23
- The perfect sci-fi library
- There are 15 science fiction books in "the perfect library"--at least according The Telegraph. It's an idea almost too stupid for words, but here's the list, anyway. We'll get to what's wrong with it in a second. 1984 by George Orwell 2001: A Space Odyssey by...
- Tags: Science Fiction, Comments Section, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Beginner's XML book for VB users?
- Hello,Just wondering if anyone knows of any good technical training books that teach XML concepts at a beginner's level (i.e., XML, XPATH, XSLT, DOM, SAX, DTD, etc.), but using a VB.NET/VB 6.0/VBScript platform, instead of Java/JavaScript/C++? Thanks(I got the XML beginner's book from the Wrox series, but since it...
- Tags: galahad04, Microsoft Visual Basic, programming, XML
- Q&A 2005-02-23
- Sci-fi and fantasy books that "make you dumb"
- One the the recent memes to plague the blogosphere is an insipid little chart published by a CalTech student that purports to correlate SAT scores with favorite books, effectively determining which are the books for the "dumb" kids, and which tomes are hallmarks of the "smart"...
- Tags: Facebook, Student, SAT, Blogging, Social Networking, Internet, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Good schema management helps to maintain XML namespace
- By Kurt CagleWhat is an invoice?If you take a look at the vast number of different XML formats being used to describe something as intuitively simple as an invoice form, you can see one of the problems that is now beginning to crop up in many companies—namely, that everyone has...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, schema, XML, XSM
- Technical articles 2003-03-18
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