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College Boosts Productivity, Security by Upgrading to the Latest Operating System
Thomas College is a small liberal arts school in Maine that prides itself on providing the latest technology for its students and staff. The school's Information Technology department wanted to standardize on one PC operating system in order to improve user productivity, enhance security, and ease management tasks. The school...
Tags: User Productivity, Security, Operating System, Thomas College, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), 64-Bit, Software, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
Case studies 2008-05-01

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Life experience degrees/distance learning
As an IT manager and also one who has went to the school of hard knocks and sweat I wish to pose a question to you.I have recently seen an multitude of "online" universities that will give a degree based on life experience. from the investigatiopn I have done the...
Tags: Life, life experience, board, jim.baker@..., career
Discussion threads 2005-02-23
At tech firms, time again for flextime?
It can work if...It can work if you don't have micromanaging weasels above you who operate under the myth that if they don't see you, you are goofing off.At the college I work at, I negotiated a telework arrangement. Since I live 55 miles away from campus, the time and...
Tags: business ethics, comptech3, flex-time
Discussion threads 2004-11-15
Geek Trivia: The Altered States of America
Representative : of what?Is curious that US, expending so much resources and energy to get representative democracy and run election everywhere in the world including Iraq, has an undemocratic electoral system.Why can ask other nations to comply with democratic a standard that is enable to enforce itself (as in de...
Tags: Vertical industries, Geek Trivia, Lol, lead politician, main government, government
Discussion threads 2008-11-05
Weekend reading—The Millionaire Mind
Who wants to be a millionaire? The Millionaire Mind, by Thomas J. Stanley, Ph.D., outlines the characteristics of America's latest breed—the millionaire entrepreneur. Read this review and find out if you fit the profile.You've been staring at your monitor too long. Relax and curl up with a book unrelated to...
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Lauren Willoughby, Thomas J. Stanley, millionaire, Millionaire Mind
Technical articles 2000-03-11
Download our list of online management graduate degrees
Want more information about graduate management degrees? Download our list of seven graduate degree programs you can pursue online.You’ve reached the point where an advanced management degree would be the best thing for your career. But there are no colleges or universities in your area that offer the kind of...
Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Michelle Young Cavanaugh, project management, management degree, MBA
Technical articles 2000-12-12
Weekend Reading—Geeks
Jon Katz offers up the tale of two poor but computer-savvy teens as they leave their small town behind in search of the digital-age version of the American Dream.By Thomas PackGeeks:HowTwoLostBoysRodetheInternetOutofIdaho By Jon KatzVillard BooksPublished February 2000256 pp., hardcoverISBN: 0-375-50298-XPrice: $16.05 at fatbrain.com .rate4.gifThe story that unfolds in the nonfiction...
Tags: INTERNET, PRODUCTIVITY, Thomas Pack, Jon Katz, Jesse
Technical articles 2000-04-01
Convert tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge to ensure better application development
Anyonewho's ever developed an application from scratch knows that it's difficult to fullyunderstand the objective of the user or subject matter expert, when theydescribe the problem that the code is supposed to solve. It's not a mysterythat the requirements gathering process is a challenge. However, why it's sodifficult to get...
Tags: knowledge, Robert L. Bogue, loop, application development, Tacit Knowledge
Technical articles 2006-09-19
Spaceballs - The cartoon show!
My college roommate Dr. Sean sent me this CNN headline: 'Spaceballs' to become TV cartoonLOS ANGELES, California Hollywood Reporter -- Mel Brooks is developing an animated TV series based on his comedy feature "Spaceballs."Like the 1987 movie, which parodied well-known science-fiction movies, "Spaceballs: The Animated...
Tags: Production, TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Cable, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2006-09-21
Embryonic Cloning
Embryonic CloningHere is an article from the associated press:Dolly Scientist Gets Human Cloning License 4 hours ago By THOMAS WAGNER, Associated Press Writer Ian Wilmut speaks at a news conference in London on Sept. 28, 2004. ...More... LONDON - The British government Tuesday gave the...
Tags: cell, Dolly, embryo, Ian Wilmut, off-topic, ProtiusX
Discussion threads 2005-02-08
help change/start career
hello to everybody please just listen before start hitingthis my story :i am before fourty i work as an accountanta few years ago i realised that i really like all the IT stuff and i started involving in many ways from fixing my or others pc's to solve problems that...
Tags: information technology
Discussion threads 2005-02-13
Brainiacs debate the merits of Enterprise 2.0 in a rogue session to kick off the Enterprise 2.0 conference
I'm in Boston for a couple days this week for the Enterprise 2.0 conference. I thought it was fitting that the conference was kicked off with an event that was not an official part of the conference agenda but covered a question that a lot of the attendees came to...
Tags: Enterprise 2.0 conference, Enterprise 2.0, dan farber, Conference
Blog posts 2007-06-18
Being new to the dot-com game can bring insecurities and questions
The questions can be different when you consider taking a job at a dot com. How should you structure that salary package? How can you maximize your equity compensation? See what advice Kevin has for those who are thinking about taking the dot-com plunge.Let headhunter Kevin Rosenberg help you set...
Tags: Programming languages, Benefits, Kevin Rosenberg, game, dot-com, job, Java, Rosenberg, salary
Technical articles 2000-03-21
Microsoft exams move to pass/fail grading
Gone are the mysterious numerical scores you used to find on Microsoft certification exams. In their place are sensible pass/fail results. See why Erik Eckel says this is a positive change.The rumor has been floating around for a while. I first heard about it in December. Then last week, I...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Corp., Erik Eckel Network+, MCP+I, MCSE
Technical articles 2002-02-01
Where were you?
Has an idea for a weekly post over the weekend.Starting with a music era, say the 80's, name a song from the 80's and what it reminds you of.Others can comment on what that song reminds them of or come up with another song in the same era. It...
Tags: Oz_Media
Discussion threads 2007-10-15
Deb Shinder's Tech Blog
blog rootWelcome to my BlogI have been writing articles for TechProGuild and TechRepublic for over five years now, specializing primarily in Microsoft operating systems and application software as well as generic networking and security concepts and practices. I've authored two sole-author books (Scene of the Cybercrime, published by Syngress and...
Tags: Backups, Servers, Deb Shinder, deb@..., server, backup, disaster recovery, security, blog
Discussion threads 2005-06-22
Geek Trivia: Clear browser history
Fifteen years ago next week, the first mainstream World Wide Web browser, Mosaic, was released to the public. On April, 22, 1993, lead programmers Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina offered up Mosaic under some of the most generous terms possible for a non-shareware or freeware program. Over the next year,...
Tags: Clear, Web Browser, NCSA Mosaic, Cello, Case Law, Web Browsers, Internet, Jay Garmon
Blog posts 2008-04-15
Sideways Trailer (Mac)
Watch the trailer for this Oscar nominated comedy. The misadventures begin when Miles Paul Giamatti, an un-recovered divorc and would-be novelist with a wine fixation, decides to gift his old college buddy and washed-up actor Jack Thomas Haden Church with a celebratory trip to the vineyards of Santa Barbara wine...
Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wine, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Software downloads 2005-02-26
Sideways Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)
Put the Oscar nominated comedy on your desktop. The misadventures begin when Miles Paul Giamatti, an un-recovered divorc and would-be novelist with a wine fixation, decides to gift his old college buddy and washed-up actor Jack Thomas Haden Church with a celebratory trip to the vineyards of Santa Barbara wine...
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Wine, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Software downloads 2005-02-26
Sideways Screensaver (Mac)
Put the Oscar nominated comedy on your desktop. The misadventures begin when Miles Paul Giamatti, an un-recovered divorc and would-be novelist with a wine fixation, decides to gift his old college buddy and washed-up actor Jack Thomas Haden Church with a celebratory trip to the vineyards of Santa Barbara wine...
Tags: Apple Macintosh, Wine, Fox Searchlight Pictures
Software downloads 2005-02-26
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