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Need help in budgeting IT time, money
Hi Folks,Excuse my ignorance of not even knowing which discussion to post this to.I need some help and hope you can either offer some suggestions from your personal experience or direct me to sites where I may research the topic.I work for a medium sized non-profit enterprise that essentially does...
Tags: computer, it budget, calculate budget, naive users, no it dept., information technology, storch, it management, budgeting
Discussion threads 2006-04-12

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Boss who is really, really naive
Boss who is really, really naiveHELP!! My boss is 24 years old, and very, very inexperienced in the management field I work in telecom. She's asking me to do some things which I disagree with concerning the databases for which I am administrator
Tags: database, chrisbat, office politics, permissions, boss, frustration, off-topic, chrispy1
Discussion threads 2005-10-03
Trojan rides in on unpatched Office flaw
OK, I'll run it!Wow, someone selling Viagkpa sp sends me an .MDB file!Whoa! Why don't I just open it up and...(*&@#% AhhhH! (cut to lion thinning the herd, ripping open an antelope)Ok, this isn't even a browser problem, and you'd have to be pretty stupid to open...
Tags: computer, Dr Dij, MDB, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, security, trojan horse, windows mdb exploit security problem
Discussion threads 2005-10-03
IT consulting: The importance of naive creativity
Tao Te Ching: "The more you know, the less you understand." There are many times that the more I learn something, the more I'm constrained by my knowledge and assumptions, resulting in my being less creative. This contradicts the conventional wisdom concerning expertise. People...
Tags: Consultant, Knowledge, Information Technology, Consulting, E-mail, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Chip Camden
Blog posts 2008-05-21
Configure user workstations in Linux
One of the valuable features of Linux Annoyances for Geeks: Getting the Most Flexible System in the World Just the Way You Want It is its unique approach, which takes into account not only the needs of sophisticated Linux proponents and power users, but the needs of less-trained users...
Tags: Chapter, Workstation, O'Reilly Media Inc., Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
Book chapters 2006-07-07
Do family values = more productivity?
The Real Trend In IT Hiring Is...The real trend in IT hiring in the US is to hire young, naive, people fresh out of school who don't have any of those sticky family problems yet. You put them in a college-like setting so they feel at home. You work them...
Tags: fcarr@..., IT Hiring
Discussion threads 2007-10-05
iPoJ: User-Space Sandboxing for Linux 2.4
The Internet is a dangerous place. Both naive and educated users routinely become infected with viruses and accidentally run spyware despite widespread knowledge of such risks and how to avoid them. Clearly, user education is a dead-end. Another approach is to finely limit what different applications can do so that...
Tags: University Of Illinois, Internet, Virus, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Linux, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software
White papers 2006-02-11
naïve questions: Web server security
Hello!Well here come some naïve questions about Web server security and data transfer.I am considering making available a private Web page on my intranet so that remote users can access the most widely used data on my servers. The would largely be editing and reviewing documents.This network is a workgroup...
Tags: Microsoft IIS Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, security, server, yage70
Q&A 2004-11-04
Admins may be naive about the state of IM in their companies
It's no secret that instant messaging IM is being used in numerous organizations without the sanction of the IT department. Many business employees make liberal use of IM for personal as well as business communications. However, the results of a recent NetAdmin Republic survey on IM use show that administrators...
Tags: Instant messaging, Groupware, IM, messaging
Technical articles 2003-06-19
MSDN Webcast: Applying Service-Orientation to Your Development Process (Level 300)
When the developer develops a service-oriented application, it would be naive for him or her to expect that the only things he or she will do differently will be limited to design and technology. The development process itself needs to be service-oriented. One cannot "Stare into the fire" of Windows...
Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Webcast, Development, Windows Communication Foundation, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
Webcasts
Domain Controller
I am trying to join a Media Centre 2005 laptop to our DOMAIN but get the following error:-----------------------------------------------A domain controller for the domain DOMAIN could not be contacted.#in the details....The error was:"DNS name does not exist."(error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.DOMAINCommon causes of this...
Tags: Domain names, jonp@..., DNS, domain controller
Discussion threads 2007-06-01
"Storm worm" malware may mutate into the largest botnet of all time
Last January, users were warned of malware that was spreading via e-mails that claimed to offer reports on killer storms in Europe. The Zhelatin gang, responsible for the Trojan, is applying every single trick in the book to create a swarm of spamming bots that may be as huge as...
Tags: Blog, Trojan Horse, Malware, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Spyware, Security, Online Communications, Arun Radhakrishnan
Blog posts 2007-09-03
IBM: The 'next big thing' no longer exists
Another bad prediction from IBM??Isn't this from the same company who had an executive state:"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM.The same IBM who went on to lead the industry...Tom Watson, Jr. who became the new CEO of IBM, was...
Tags: computer, hardware, ibm, IBM Corp., industry, MWagner, predictions
Discussion threads 2006-03-17
Power Conscious Routing for Wireless Devices: Theory and Simulation
This paper discusses techniques to improve aggregate power efficiency of a wireless network using the key concepts of Delaunay triangulations and sparse covers. A measure of the power efficiency of such networks is the mean rate of a word of data successfully arriving at its destination per the power used...
Tags: Cover, Theory, Network, Wireless Device, University Of California, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
White papers
Presentation: Teach your users to recognize and resist social engineering ploys
Unwary employees open the door to untold numbers of intrusions when they fall prey to social engineering tricks. This PowerPoint presentation will help them learn what to watch out for and how to handle possible attacks. Security firms tell frightening stories about how easy it is to...
Tags: Employee, Asset Management, Security, Operational Planning, Business Operations
Download resources 2005-11-30
Does seniority equal entitlement?
I think seniority does have a roleWhen assessing candidates for a position within any organization, creating a standard shortlist of those qualified, from the list of potential/interested candidates, is usually the first step. So then "qualifications to do the job" are taken care of. So what constitutes the...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Canuckster
Discussion threads 2007-11-12
Model Checking Networked Programs in the Presence of Transmission Failures
Software model checkers work directly on single-process programs, but not on multiple processes. Conversion of processes into threads, combined with a network model, allows for model checking distributed applications, but does not cover potential communication failures. This paper contributes a fault model for model checking networked programs. If a naive...
Tags: Deadlock, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Networking, Management
White papers 2007-03-23
Office XP SP3 update: problems without install CD
The SP3 package is available here on:http://software.techrepublic.com.com/download.aspx?docid=196153When installing a dialogue asks for the OfficeXP CDrom in order to execute PRO.MSIBut our PC comes from an external agency as part of an agreed funding package - we do not have the original installation CD's. So the installation stops reporting a fatal...
Tags: nodisalsi@..., Microsoft Office XP, PRO.MSI, CD, Microsoft Office
Discussion threads 2007-10-12
Respond quickly to business changes with Excel's smoothing add-in
Smoothing ImpactIntroducing decision-makers to forecasting techniques can provide new and more realistic directions for predicting future events. However, models like exponential smoothing and moving averages are designed to take the peaks and valleys from past data. The ability to predict future events may be better handled with lesser...
Tags: bob.ellis@..., Microsoft Excel, forecasting
Discussion threads 2007-04-25
Google Limits Info About Searchers - FINALLY! But is it enough?
Searching Mantra does matter...I really appreciate and trust CLUSTY.COM which actually searches query according to user request and doesnt store it.Storing the data or keep tracing the user activities may cause hillarious effect to users business and business realtions May be.IF you consider google side , they dont have actually...
Tags: E-mail providers, deepakarora.symbiosis@..., Google Inc.
Discussion threads 2007-03-26
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