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State University Decreases Call Escalation by 80% Using Appliance-Based Remote Desktop Support Solution

Texas State University's IT team deals with support issues ranging from Microsoft Word issues to viruses and spyware. Up until the end of 2005, helpdesk technicians had to walk end-users through troubleshooting processes over the phone due the size of the campus and dispersion of faculty, staff, and students. This...

Tags: Desktop, Remote Desktop, Remote Support, Bomgar, Texas State University, Remote Administration, Help Desk, Call Centers, It Operations

Case studies 2008-08-20

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East Anglia: some new angles, but no arrests for hacking

Investigation..."If the Republicans regain control of the Senate any time soon, you can expect a full-blown Inhofe-fuelled investigation."Horrors! Imagine that, someone actually wants to INVESTIGATE to see if the "science" of global warming holds water pardon the pun? You mean people actually want to KNOW if these drastic changes to...

Tags: Blogging, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Junkscience, East Anglia, e-mail, hacking

Discussion threads 2009-11-25

(NASA spacecraft crashes into the moon)

Total Waste of MaterialLets see, we explode a bomb and crash a satellite into the moon to try and confirm whether or not water is on it. And for what purpose? To make another return trip to the moon? To build space colonies? We don't have...

Tags: spacecraft, NASA, Darwin

Discussion threads 2009-10-09

Texas Sports 2.0 (Mobile)

Texas Sports brings you college sports news from across the state of Texas. Listen to fight songs and cheers, follow the latest news, and access schedules, scores, rosters, and player biographies right from your iPhone. Coverage includes football, basketball, hockey, volleyball, baseball, softball, soccer, and more for the university of...

Tags: Texas, Mobile, Grataware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-09-18

Electric vehicle grants

The feds are giving money to over four dozens industrial and research operations connected with the development of electric cars in the U.S. The total grants are nearly $2.5 billion. This is not like we have a major national commitment to electric cars. The $2.5 billion is...

Tags: Car, Electric Car, Grant, Battery, Electric Vehicle, Engineering, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Oil-staters win hybrid competition!

Texas A and M has turned out its share of petroleum engineers over the decades that crude oil has fuelled the Texas economy. Just recently the university beat the field in a race featuring student built hybrid cars! And the race was not even held in...

Tags: Texas, Brigham Young, Web Site Development, Telecom & Utilities, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Conficker hits US university; why it wouldn't happen in the UK

Conficker hits US university; why it wouldn't happen in the UKHave your sayAre British universities immune from threats due to the nature of the infrastructure? Should there be more state control over how university networks are run? Is Conficker just a big hype about nothing? Have your say... prove me...

Tags: SECURITY, Conficker

Discussion threads 2009-04-14

McAfee Total Protection Service Protects Chamber of Commerce PCs With Less Effort and Expense

Located in East Texas, not far from the Louisiana border, the county of Nacogdoches (pronounced nack-a-doe-chus), is home of Stephen F. Austin State University, "Texas Forest Country," and just over 60,000 residents. The Chamber of Commerce has limited in-house IT expertise and resources to devote to IT security. The Chamber...

Tags: McAfee Inc., PC

Case studies 2009-03-01

Your every day carry (EDC) gear

What tool, equipment and accessories can you not live without? Here's a look at some of my every day carry EDC gear. Nokia E71 Put simply, the Nokia E71 is the best cellphone I've ever owned (which is interesting because my previous favorite was...

Tags: Apple iPod, Nokia Corp., Apple iPod Touch, SureFire E2D LED, Engineering, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Change of political climate re: climate change

There'll be a change in climate change politics in the U.S. effective January 21, 2009. Environmental advocates are pointing to a line-up of strong scientifically-trained appointees, in contrast to the current administration where politics consistently trumped science. Some of the promises made during the campaign by the Obama...

Tags: Climate, Environmental Advocate, Social Security, Recruitment & Selection, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-12-22

Can Zimbra compete with Google Apps in education?

Information Week featured an article on Yahoo's Zimbra service for email and collaboration in use with educational institutions. While Zimbra, which "already provides e-mail through on-premises software at a number of marquee education accounts, including Stanford University, Georgia Tech, the University of California at Davis, Pennsylvania University, Northeastern, Carleton...

Tags: Education, Google Inc., Google Apps, Zimbra, E-mail, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-10-29

All signs point to state rep's son as Palin 'hacker'

The guy who hacked into would-be VP Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account is none other than the son of a Democratic state representative from Tennessee, posits GatwayPundit. A convincing amount of evidence suggests the "hacker" (perhaps a status he doens't deserve) is David Kernell, son of...

Tags: Tennessee, Chess, FBI, Memphis, Hacker, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-19

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

Supercomputer performs prostate surgery

A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was in Austin. According to TACC,...

Tags: Treatment, Houston, Supercomputer, Austin, Surgery, Laser, Lonestar, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Haves vs. haves: corn and cows and the men who love them

We urbanites are sitting in the bleachers for what portends to be a helluva gladiatorial battle. Corn. Cows. And it's all being fought over energy and centers, as all fine money matters in "cleantech," around the EPA. Here's what's up: Texas is a...

Tags: Biofuel, Texas, Corn, Iowa, Generation Biofuel Folk, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-26

Florida going slowly solar?

Florida going slowly solar?Conspiracy theories?If you're the sort that likes conspiracy theories... here's a couple:1) Big Oil has it's eyes on drilling in the Gulf and so this is a way to butter up the State for that push.2) A respected university with a failed solar power plan (too costly,...

Tags: SolarCity, lease

Discussion threads 2008-05-19

Survivor Buddy, a friendly robot rescuer

The St. Petersburg Times, Florida, reports that a well-known robot designer, Robin Murphy, a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of South Florida USF, 'plans to add a heart to robot rescuers.' As says USF, the goal is to develop 'a robot that will be a companion...

Tags: Details, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-17

Can Deep Green help a combat commander?

University of Southern California USC researchers are developing several parts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Deep Green program. Their efforts are intended to help commanders on the battlefield to anticipate enemy moves. 'The system interweaves anticipatory planning with adaptive execution to help the commander think ahead, identify...

Tags: Program, Battlefield, DARPA, Corporate Governance, Data Mining, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Earth Day – have a gas

Sample Vulcan map from Purdue & NASA. The folks at Purdue University have come up with a way for us to watch the CO2 emissions across the U.S. Just in time for Earth Day, 2008. It's called Vulcan, and it's going to...

Tags: Emission, Carbon Dioxide, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-21

eVoting systems come under fire

As reported by Robert McMillan and Elizabeth Montalbano at IDG News Service, Sequoia voting systems web site has been hacked and subsequently taken down. Sequoia and its voting system is not new to the news, as it was recently investigated by the Attorney General of New Jersey...

Tags: Sequoia Software, New Jersey, Sequoia Voting Systems, E-voting, Intellectual Property, Government, Research & Development, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-20