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- Web 2.0, Hype or Just Hype?: An IT Skeptic Special Report
- The hype wave of Web 2.0 approaches a crescendo. Apparently it is going to transform IT and reengineer the business. The IT Skeptic thinks not. On one side, huge increases in productivity can be achieved through the division of labor, as illustrated by the example of a pin factory whose...
- Tags: Web, Information Technology, IT Skeptic, Web 2.0, Strategy, Internet, Management
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- Virus alert: Watch for Skeptic
- Trend Micro is warning users about the Melissa-like Skeptic virus, which attaches itself as an e-mail attachment.Don’t be a skeptic—a new virus is on the attack. W97M_60thSKEPTIC is a Word 97 macro virus, similar to the W97M_MELISSA and W97M_CLASS.The virus is transferred like the Melissa virus by sending itself as...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Trend Micro Inc., Matthew Osborn, virus, antivirus, Skeptic viru, e-mail, skeptic, subject line
- Technical articles 1999-09-03
- ITIL Version 3
- This paper provides a summary of what the IT Skeptic knows about ITIL Version 3, kept up to date as facts unfold. People are starting to realise how different ITIL Version 3 ("The Refresh") is from ITIL Version 2, and how much more extensive the scope and ideas are. There...
- Tags: ITIL, Process Improvement, It Services, Quality, Business Operations
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- The Botnet Threat: Targeting Your Business
- The objective of a robot network or "botnet" is simple: Enlist your computers into the armies of zombies that will, on command from some faraway place, bombard other computers with fraudulent spam and malware, turning those computers into zombies as well. In this whitepaper, you will learn more about the...
- Tags: MessageLabs Ltd., Zombie, Computer, Productivity, Robots, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Emerging Technologies
- White papers 2008-07-07
- Tip: Office 2003 Service Pack 3 available
- Any problems yet on the installation/use of Office 2003?Because we all know that we should always be very wary of Microsoft updates, with all the disaster stories out there on what the SP broke, less about the things it fixed.A skeptic, but more so a admin whose been burned before...LeoPhiladelphiaGetting...
- Tags: LeonidasRomero, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2007-09-20
- Enough Politics - Enough MS - Enough Management - Let's talk UFOs!
- .http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070322/wl_afp/sciencespaceufo_070322143210Are you a believer, a nonbeliever, or a skeptic? What's your story? Have there been government cover-ups of UFOs, or simply cases of classified experimentation on the next generation of craft?And how about those alleged abductions? Any kind of X-Files reality out there?Have any great UFO sites you want to...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., maxwell edison, UFO, Cincinnati
- Discussion threads 2007-03-22
- Web-based Application using MySQL as database
- Im developing a web-based application in which my site has three kind of users; Guest, Registered User and Admin. Guest can only access certain contents of the site while both registered users and admin have full access.As im quite new to MySQL, so im a bit lost (Tho I can...
- Tags: Databases, Instant messaging, Storage, md_khaledhz@..., MySQL, database, IM, web-based application
- Discussion threads 2007-06-24
- Have I been wrong about Y2K?
- For the last couple of years, editorial director Bob Artner has played the role of Y2K skeptic. What's happened to change his mind?For the past couple of years, my role in the Endless Y2K Debate has been professional skeptic, The Amazing Randi for the IT community. (You remember Randi, don’t...
- Tags: Bob Artner, Y2K, mild electric shock, shock, electric shock
- Technical articles 1999-12-25
- Sun promises to open-source Java
- An exceptional news !I think Sun Microsystems Co. make a clever movement!Equivalent significant steps:a. Linus Torvalds, the Linux' parent, created an emperor of Linux; having many dialects as : Mandrake, Debian, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, SuSE, Turbo, Slackware, and so on.b. The the Java J2SE platform, free of charge, the JVM.c. Sufficient...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Java, Linux, open-source Java, the java volcano start to erupt!, dan_somnea@..., programming, software, open source
- Discussion threads 2006-05-18
- Working towards better intelligence
- Ever since House Republicans blocked the national intelligence reform bill from a floor vote, cries of disappointment, disbelief and outrage have rendered the Washington air, as though only a national intelligence czar would shield us from another 9/11. But many in Congress and elsewhere think otherwise; namely, that the czar...
- Tags: Aldanatech
- Discussion threads 2004-12-02
- Does cool translate into success?
- Lookingover my past blog entries I think you can safely make the assumption that I aman accomplished skeptic. I am suspicious of all hype, especially when it comesto marketing hype. I am a firm believer that the best ideas of the past havecome from grassroots innovations that grow into phenomena...
- Tags: cell phone, telephone, video
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
- Lock IT Down: Using an application service provider to filter out viruses
- See how ASPs can help protect your organization against virusesIn October 2000, MessageLabs, a relatively unknown ASP application service provider based in the UK, intercepted more than 30,000 e-mail messages carrying viruses. Why was MessageLabs intercepting these messages? It was saving its customers a lot of aggravation, time, and money...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Scanners, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Networks Associates Technology Inc., F-Secure Corp., skeptic, Robert Vibert, virus, MessageLabs Ltd., scanner, antivirus
- Technical articles 2000-12-12
- Apple TV ... we're still waiting
- The Apple TV device, which was announced last year, hyped at MacWorld in mid-January, and set to ship in February has now been officially delayed until March, according to Reuters and News.com (one of TechRepublic's sister sites). In early February, the ship date was pushed to Feb. 28. Now, Apple...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Implementing Tight VNC for user support
- Because of the reduced IT staff at my company we've been thinking of implementing TightVNC to support users remotely. There are only 2 IT People and we support over 50 not so-tech-savvy users. From discussions with users on if they would find remote assistance useful, many are skeptic about the...
- Tags: akumudzi2@..., VNC, computer, information technology, TightVNC, RealVNC
- Discussion threads 2007-03-19
- Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., Sun Solaris, Linus Torvalds, Linux, Solaris/x86
- Technical articles 2004-12-21
- Enterprise 2.0 is about building a collaboration platform that is better than e-mail
- Harvard professor Andrew McAfee left is credited with coining the phrase "Enterprise 2.0" -- which is basically Web 2.0 for businesses -- but in his keynote on Tuesday morning at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston he portrayed himself as a former skeptic of the business value of Web 2.0...
- Tags: web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 conference, Enterprise 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Sun poised to take open-source Solaris step
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Development tools, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Red Hat Inc., open source
- Technical articles 2005-01-24
- Microsoft raises the bar with Vista
- When you are looking for an operating system to run yourmission critical systems on, you look for an OS that is stable, manageable,secure, scalable, and can perform when called upon. That being the case, thereis little mystery as to why Linux has made inroads into the server rooms ofmany organizations....
- Tags: desktop, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, operating system
- Blog posts 2006-07-09
- Global Warming - The zealots are getting desperate
- Have you noticed the new onslaught of global warming warnings?Did you see the picture of the Polar Bears "stranded" on that iceberg? (Stranded, by butt! They either swam out to it -- something Polar Bears naturally do because they're, well, because they're Polar Bears -- or the right half of...
- Tags: global warming, hAve, maxwell edison
- Discussion threads 2007-02-03
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