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- 10+ useless interview questions... and what you should ask instead
- Interview prep guides are full of recommended 'tough' questions, but a lot of them are a complete waste of time. Here's a list of questions to avoid and some better ways to elicit useful information. Conducting an effective interview is one of the best opportunities you have...
- Tags: Candidate, Erik Eckel, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
- Download resources 2008-04-24
- Windows laptop specifications checklist
- For most organizations, regardless of size, laptops are now critical business tools. Unfortunately, many business owners, consultants, and IT departments are too quick to purchase preconfigured units that turn out to be underpowered, that include unnecessary software, and that don't have sufficient memory, disk space, or video cards for the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Laptop Computer, Erik Eckel, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Download resources 2008-02-27
- The TechRepublic Spyware Removal Checklist
- Regardless of size, everyone from small businesses to enterprise organizations must battle the associated Spyware risks that include key trackers, Web page redirectors, persistent pop-up advertisements, inoperable network connections, unwanted tracking applications and other nefarious programs that slow and even render systems and programs non-operational. While not every infected system...
- Tags: Spyware Removal, Checklist, TechRepublic Inc., Erik Eckel, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security
- Download resources 2008-01-20
- 10 things to look for in an offsite backup provider
- Automated offsite backup services are all the rage. But some of the services work better than others, and pricing varies, as does the quality of the automated backup software. Erik Eckel offers this list of the most important things to keep in mind as you evaluate offsite backup providers.This download...
- Tags: Erik Eckel, Backups
- Download resources 2008-01-07
- How do I... Configure and use LogMeIn Pro remote access software?
- The remote access configuration process is daunting. Everything from antivirus programs to flaky modems to firewalls can single-handedly derail remote connection attempts. Remote connection alternatives try to overcome these obstacles with ease of use and tighter security. One of the most popular options is LogMeIn. Erik Eckel explains how to...
- Tags: Software, LogMeIn, Erik Eckel, Remote Access, Telecommunications
- Download resources 2007-10-08
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- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Enterprise IT and the hypercompetition boom
- Corporate information technology has led to more winner take all markets and a super competitive business environment where players often flame out as quickly as they showed up. That's the big conclusion from Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson in this month's Harvard Business Review. ...
- Tags: Laggard, Information Technology, Leader, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- Do video games actually have a place in school?
- Do video games actually have a place in school?Just a thought,I don't know how this relates to the Wii, but when I was in high school we had 6 PS2's and Dance Dance Revolution. So if you can use a video game in Phys. Ed., why not early development?RE:...
- Tags: Games, game, Nintendo Wii, video game, video
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- 5 ways to prevent IT failure
- 5 ways to prevent IT failureIt's not governance itself...It's when governance (err...a "governance model") is a major piece or somehow viewed as a significant deliverable.I'll also point out that consistency across the portfolio is not necessarily a good thing. Many corporations consist of a large number of diverse businesses....
- Tags: Strategy, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-05-24
- The MS Office 2008 for Mac scandal continues
- Can Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit expect anything but frustration from its installed base of users? The excuses from the development team are wearing very, very thin. The news today was that the group was able to get its first batch of 1,000 bug...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office 2004, MacTech, Ticktin, Scripting Languages, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Microsoft: Office '08 sales skyrocket, SP1 released, VBA coming back to Mac
- According to CNet Microsoft is selling copies of Office 2008 for Mac at a clip three times higher than the former 2004 version. "The company wouldn't disclose sales numbers, but said the sales are the highest in the 19-year history of the unit. That continues a trend that has been...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft VBA, Microsoft Corp., Sales, Mac BU, Desktops, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]
- Hosted software development: an emerging market [includes podcast]Emerging market?If we're talking about version control, bug tracking, compile farms, etc then how is this an emerging market? Companies have been doing this for years.As for leasing out computer time...this has been done for decades. It just went out...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Marketing research, Financial services, Podcasts, Development tools, Force.com, emerging market, tool, Hosted, Hosted software development, software development, podcast
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Poll: Post-Yahoo, what should Microsoft do?
- Now that the Microsoft-Yahoo deal is tabled, what is Microsoft's next move? Many are assuming Microsoft is waiting for Yahoo's stock to tank in order to sweep in and make another pass at Yahoo. Others are counting on Microsoft buying another Web 2.0 powerhouse in Yahoo's stead...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-05
- The purloined benchmark
- Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Memory, Server, Larry Pedigo, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- Opera aces Acid3 (updated)
- The Opera browser today became the first browser to pass the Acid3 test. On the Opera desktop team blog, Lars Erik Bolstad writes: I have a quick update on where we are with Acid3. Since the test was officially announced recently, our Core developers have been hard at work...
- Tags: Opera Software, Bolstad, WinGogi, Team Management, Web Browsers, Management, Internet, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Standards and pragmatism in web browsers
- Standards and pragmatism in web browsersJoel nailed it.Making websites at that worked cross browser has never had ANYTHING to do with standards. [b]Ever[/b]. The collective sigh of relief when Netscape was finally laid to rest was almost audible.Joel is not alone with this conviction. Every developer and GUI designer in...
- Tags: Web browsers, Joel, Web browser, pragmatism, standards
- Discussion threads 2008-03-20
- Alternate Universes: Unix vs MCSE
- Alternate Universes: Unix vs MCSEMurph, if you can...... make this a bit pithier, I'll consider having it put on a plaque:The problem is that a computer isn’t just a computer: it’s the visible element in an evolved behavioral system. And of course that includes users, not just IT.New entrantYour title...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Unix
- Discussion threads 2008-03-11
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus Monkeyboy
- In the mind's eye, it's now Marissa versus MonkeyboyFunny thing that.I watched some of the MSDN Channel 9 videos recently. People like Erik Meijer, Brian Beckman, Scott Guthrie and others. Likeably, intelligent people you respect. You see them, and you think there is hope for Microsoft.Then you see Steve Ballmer,...
- Tags: Public relations, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Feeling organs via a display screen
- Computerized image analysis is used to extract information from images. It can be used in medical applications to determine the size of organs or to build 3-D models of organs before surgery. For example, a PhD candidate at Uppsala University, Sweden, has developed new technology to make easier to diagnose...
- Tags: Segmentation, 3D, Organ, Feedback, Visualization, Uppsala University, Image, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- Brief%3A+4
- Brief%3A+4Care to fix the page?Anyone digging down past the excerpts on the left side to read a comment would expect Chinese characters.Failing up a project directorYou seem to have mixed guidance about IT projects. They cost money and time and usually fail.But Board members should take them very seriously...
- Tags: Corporate governance, information technology, board, IT Project
- Discussion threads 2008-02-01
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