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- WoW Gold Wizard (exe)
- WoW Gold Wizard give you the best advice on making gold in WoW based on your level and profession. Simply enter the level of your character and your main primary profession, and the software will give a recommendation on how you should level up. It is very simple and straightforward...
- Tags: Profession, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Software downloads 2008-01-18
- Hot Sokoban (zip)
- Did you know that a loader is a very intellectual profession? Play Hot Sokoban and you'll find out! It 's a classic logic and puzzle game invented in Japan. You must push all the boxes to a designated position in the warehouse. But it isn't easy.
- Tags: Profession, Warehouse, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2005-11-01
- Solving the CRM Employee Retention Problem: A Customer Service Approach (Part I)
- Employee retention is a huge problem facing call center managers. There are staff shortages caused by people not entering the profession, too many people leaving the profession for either higher-paying jobs or jobs with less stress, and not enough promotional opportunities to warrant people making a career out of being...
- Tags: Profession, Customer Service, Employee Retention, CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Product Marketing, Recruitment & Selection, Call Centers, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations
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- Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?
- Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?FYI[url=http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/dell_adds_ubuntu_systems_updates_hardy_heron/]FYI[/url]Just curious Dana, are you running Linux? If so, why and which Distro?If not, why?Thanks for another 'good read'.P.S.[url=http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2660]This article[/url] isn't clear about what O/S you use.RE: Could a desktop Ubuntu bundle earn share?The simple answer is a reassuring NO! Put simply,...
- Tags: UNIX, Desktops, Operating systems, Notebooks, Ubuntu, Linux, desktop
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- My Awesome IT Job: Senior security engineer, VoIP carrier
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from IT pros that love their work. "I...
- Tags: Network, Information Technology, Hobby, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Security, Networking, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- My Awesome IT Job: Chief architect, The Hive
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here's a new Friday feature at The IT Grind showcasing IT professionals that love their work....
- Tags: Information Technology, Chief Architect, Hobby, Home Entertainment, Scripting Languages, Productivity, Strategy, Programming Languages, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Software Development, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-07-11
- A time and need for service innovation, education
- The vision behind Service Science is to build a coherent body of knowledge for service innovation, says IBM's Jim Spohrer. Commentary--Services make the world go around. In modern day society, we are all connected to each other by either giving or receiving a service. ...
- Tags: services, IBM
- News items 2008-07-10
- McAfee S.P.A.M. experiment and more ridiculous HackerSafe failures
- Stay with me here readers, I'm stringing two stories about McAfee together here, a little out of the ordinary, so I hope it makes sense. If you aren't interested in the tech details of which there are very little, please do read for a good laugh. Network World reported...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Organize-It, PCI, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Marketing Research, Storage, Hardware, Security, Spam And Phishing, Marketing, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Why computers fail
- Why computers failA good UPS...will decrease failure rates tremendously. I use Belkin AVR UPS's and the only systems I've had go down in the last year were ones installed by my predecessor without UPS's. There is no doubt in my mind that bad power is a PC's worst enemy....
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, chip, failure rate, hardware, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., redundancy, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- "IT is boring," scoff students
- "IT is boring," scoff studentsIT is like any other career.Some of it is interesting and some of it is boring. There is also a misconception that once you have a degree in computer science you are automatically the cats meow. That is, IT graduates don't believe they need to pay...
- Tags: Professional development, Outsourcing, IT IS
- Discussion threads 2008-06-28
- U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in future
- U.S. tech sector jobs show strong growth, but lack of engineers could hurt in futureIn other news...IBM, AMD, Intel, Boeing..announce job cutsThese "shortage of engineer" articles are starting to smell fishy when balanced against job cuts and outsourcing news from the same companies that complain about shortages.Why not just cut...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Brother-In-Law, U.S. tech sector job, sector job, U.S. Tech, job, strong growth, H1B
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Might we see a doctors' strike?
- Might we see a doctors' strike?Because the system is so broken...I have seen a resurgence of homeopathic medical practices. My regular civilian physician is a homeopathic doctor.My chiropractor only takes cash or check and keeps his patient records on 3x5 cards... still. He doesn't trust the system.I think what is...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, strike
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- CIO perspective: Patrick Slesinger, Wallem
- Patrick Slesinger is director and CIO of Wallem Services Limited, a Hong Kong based ship management business with some 6,600 staff. Earlier today we discussed the way in which Wallem has transitioned from being a top down, command and control directed business to one where openness rules. My interest was...
- Tags: Information, Patrick Slesinger, Wallem Services Ltd., RSS, Internet, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUD
- Calling out lawyers on their own FUDReally?"Walsh’s claim that before these suits open source offered only a “philosophical dispute” is false. Copyright law has always been at the heart of open source."Really?Copyright law and the GPL are based on the concept of a "derivative work." What EXACTLY is a...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, derivative-work
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- A good teacher goes a long ways
- A good teacher goes a long waysWe have had them, but we are losing them.In my area, we are getting fewer and fewer willing to work as a teacher. When the starting pay is less than 20% of the cost of the cheapest house in our area, it gets...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, food
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- Images: A bit of technology in a world of magic
- TechRepublic contributor Wally Bahny takes you through World of Warcraft's Engineering Profession, a world of Steam Tonks, Dimensional Rippers, and Khorium Destroyers. by CNET News.com
- Tags: World Of Warcraft, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-06
- Programming stream of consciousness
- My wife is out of the country now visiting family. That, combined with the fact that I quit Microsoft last week in order to pursue full-time a startup project that concentrates, in the near term, on Africa, means that I am spending every waking hour programming. ...
- Tags: Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- The insurers bid to fix health care
- The insurers bid to fix health carethe problem isthat no one wants to lay the blame where it belongs. Government. Because that would mean killing socialized medicine.Bingo!!Blanky doesn't want to admit that tort reform *is* needed. My sister is a doc...the cost to her for malpractice insurance is shocking....
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Socialized Medicine, insurance company, tort, health care, insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?
- China's cyber-militia behind U.S. blackouts?FUD?While Chinese owned companies (and being Communist, the government owns those companies) has been responsible for some things, no doubts there as the pet food and tooth paste can confirm, shouldn't a proper distinction be confirmed before empty blaming?How do we know the guilty hackers aren't...
- Tags: Hacking, INTERNET, blackout
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Put some IT pros in jail
- Put some IT pros in jailAgreed to the fullestWhen I described the WH email issue with a friend, I said flatly "I would have walked in and fired every person I laid eyes upon." There is NO excuse for that level of incompetence, none whatsoever!Too bad there aren't licenses we...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Development tools, software engineering, jail, information technology, software
- Discussion threads 2008-05-27
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