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- Apple's ex-CFO reportedly settles options probe
- Where are they?Where are all those Mac-o-philes who are always so quick to attack the integrity of everyone else (but particularly Microsoft & Gates).Here's a newsflash: people in general are greedy, but only some can be trusted.
- Tags: RealGem, Apple Computer Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-04-26
- Apple megapatch plugs 45 security holes
- they are picking up iPhonesand the updated iRack, which is supposed to hold 21,000 more things. tho the original cost way more than planned and took much longer to complete.Just wait for the unvailing of the newest running shoe product, the iRan! some say it's nuclear...
- Tags: RealGem, Apple Computer Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2007-03-16
- Rights group names 'Enemies of the Internet'
- RidiculousBoycotting one vendor, or even just giving preference to another, is going to solve nothing. Even if public opinion could sway Cisco, who thinks that another vendor wouldn't jump in to fill the void.The problem with a repressive gover
- Tags: it management, RealGem, Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-11-14
- Can German engineering fix Wikipedia?
- Maybe, but people are peopleI love the concept of the Wiki, that collective sharing, but the problem is that people are people. While many are altruistic, far too many are just plain stupid.Look at grafitti, tagging, vandalism, and online, viruses, worms, phishing, flaming, and so on. These are...
- Tags: GERMAN, wiki, certificates, RealGem, networking, German Engineering, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-08-24
- An axe to grind with Ajax
- An axe to grind with Ajaxarticle rootI want to eat my cake tooGood points, of course. And, I certainly don't want to discard the positive part of the browser-based apps, that is portability.I, however, would like to see the tech community come up with things like AJAX for other...
- Tags: AJAX, applet, standards, RealGem, programming, Java
- Discussion threads 2006-06-13
- A guide for would-be conspiracy theorists
- Love it, butI don't think you'll get many posts. Everyone's too busy reading about the latest IE holes and flaming MS.The word conspiracy being abusedIs this supposed to be a whitty commentary on how so often government spokespeople call every piece of information contrary to what they want to...
- Tags: RealGem
- Discussion threads 2005-09-01
- Ex-Microsoft employee a million-dollar man
- Jurisdiction ShmurisdictionForget about the legal angles and the potential jurisdictional disputes. Look at the intent. An agreement was made not to work for a competitor. Lee is now working for a competitor. The man is as guilty as can be. Don't let the technicalities of...
- Tags: Lee, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-08-02
- Large chart to a single image
- I have a large chart a network diagram in MS Project that I need to share with 40 or so people. They do not have MS Project, and so they cannot see it on their own. Printing the chart, even on a large-bed printer (on 2 ft x...
- Tags: chart, JPEG, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Project, printing, RealGem
- Q&A 2005-04-29
- States race to cut taxes to attract Intel
- Equipment requires services & schooling"Equipment doesn't demand services or schooling." I don't totally agree.When the equipment needs to be replaced, what do you do with all of the toxic materials? Hi tech is a little notorious for using things like lead, PCBs, and such. Disposal and management...
- Tags: Equipment, hardware, Intel Corp., RealGem, States, tax
- Discussion threads 2005-03-07
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- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for February 26
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Hollywood hack job," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. This week's...
- Tags: Quibble, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Geek Trivia: The Quibble of the Week for February 19
- If you uncover a questionable fact or debatable aspect of this week's Geek Trivia, "Quite a tail to tell," just post it in the discussion area. Every week, yours truly will choose the best quibble from the assembled masses and discuss it in a future edition of Geek Trivia. ...
- Tags: Quibble, Dr., Radiation, Policies And Procedures, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Human Resources, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- A new IT manager needs help dealing with fallout after his promotion
- You were promoted over a qualified coworker, and you must handle the transition from equal to manager without damaging the relationship with the employee you now supervise. Find out what advice TechRepublic members have for one member in this situation.Your manager was promoted, and now you’ve stepped into the position....
- Tags: Telephony, kicker, Dana Norton, Kobus, telecommunications
- Technical articles 2002-01-17
- Upgrade dilemma: Simple slotket or the whole mother(board) lode?
- Have you been debating whether you should upgrade a machine by using a slotket device instead of a complete motherboard overhaul? If so, we want to hear your thoughts in this week's Member Debate.Thankfully there are a number of ways to upgrade your machine. But with options come choices—and this...
- Tags: Processors, board, Ed Engelking II A+, motherboard, processor
- Technical articles 2001-03-16
- Geek Trivia: A far side collection
- When so-called conspiracy theorists rattle off a patented rant about how the government faked all the Apollo moon landings on a movie soundstage at Area 51, many of us have no doubt wondered why NASA doesn't just point a big honking telescope at the moon to show the doubting Thomases...
- Tags: Moon, Performance Management, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-25
- Members sound off on outsourcing tech support
- To outsource or not to outsource? That was the question asked by one TechRepublic member who wondered if his organization was spending too much money on outsourced technical support. Here are several ideas and comments offered by TechRepublic members.Outsourcing tech support may seem like the logical and best answer to...
- Tags: Team management, Benefits, Recruitment & Selection, Dana Norton, outsource, outsourcing
- Technical articles 2001-10-18
- Geek Trivia: The ice is right
- Remember the old days when science only expected you to know about three states of matter: Solid, liquid, and gas? Then they started in with the fourth state -- plasma -- which looks suspiciously like a gas except that the electrons are misbehaving under the guise of ionization. The majority...
- Tags: Ice, Ice Ih, Ice Ic, Sales Tools, Wiki, Corporate Communications, Sales, Online Communications, Marketing, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-06-19
- Geek Trivia: A star in the (un)making
- Which of the three "new" planets considered in a recent IAU resolution was a recognized planet in the 1800s? My very educated mother just served us nine pizzas—that was the mnemonic this mere Trivia Geek learned to remember the names of the nine...
- Tags: IAU, Pluto, Jay Garmon, solar system, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Planet, Astronomer, Asteroid, Ceres, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Technical articles 2006-09-26
- Geek Trivia: Eye for an Einstein
- On Nov. 9, 1921, Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect, just one of five seminal papers he published in what history would call his Annus Mirabilis or "Year of Wonders." Einstein's other four 1905 papers touched on molecular dimensions, Brownian...
- Tags: Energy, E=mc2, Jerry-built, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-11-13
- Geek Trivia: Hollywood hack job
- If someone asks the average person to compile a list of notorious hackers from history, odds are the first name they'd come up is "that kid from WarGames." When someone explains that WarGames was just a movie, the average Joe would probably do a Google search and come up with...
- Tags: Job, Kevin Mitnick, Hacking, Government, Security, Federal Government, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
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