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Windows 7's troubleshooting tools: Windows has always come equipped with troubleshooting and diagnostic tools, but in Windows 7 Microsoft has done something it should have done a long time ago and put them all together in one place in Control Panel. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Tool, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, microsoft, windows, 7, diagnostic, tools; Image galleries 2008-11-07
Second Life: the Second Coming for Project Failure?: Recently, I wrote about Second Life's lack of usefulness in business. Since then, Craig Cmehil described how SAP uses Second Life, which has opened my thinking on the entire subject of virtual worlds. Now, I've come across a Second Life application that's relevant to avoiding IT project failures.MIT Researcher, Drew...; Tags: Tools; Blog posts 2007-07-19
Data Visualization for Project Failures: The Information Aesthetics blog presents a nice way for visualizing certain kinds of data. As you can see from the image below, the chart displays three kinds of data simultaneously: X-axis data, such as time series Y-axis data, such as a set of scores Size data, governing magnitude for the data being representedIn...; Tags: Tools; Blog posts 2007-07-02
Project Management Dashboard: I love user interfaces that communicate complex information clearly.The Dashboard Spy seeks out enterprise dashboards and showcases them on his very excellent blog. Dashboard Spy recently showed a screen that lets users quickly determine status across a project portfolio, using color as the main visual identifier. Here is this clever...; Tags: Tools, Project management; Blog posts 2007-05-18
BloggerCon: Tools for new media mavens: Phil Torrone, senior editor at Make, led the first discussion at BloggerCon IV this morning, focused mostly on tools for blogging and podcasting. Here is the Docnography Doc Searls is live note taking as the discussion flows of the Tools discussion. Quote of the session: "No one knows what a...; Tags: tool, Tools; Blog posts 2006-06-23

In an Emergency...: The Dashboard Spy offers a post describing emergency management information software. I researched these issues in-depth several years ago conducted lots of interviews with government and industry leaders, to learn about emergency management processes and software. Anyone seriously looking at project failures can learn from these systems.Mr. Spy points out...; Tags: Tools; Blog posts 2006-04-30

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Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than ever: Password recovery software vendor ElcomSoft claims that the password verification mechanism in the new Adobe Acrobat 9 is weaker than the one used in the previous version of Adobe's product, thereby allowing them to improve the brute forcing speed a hundred times faster. The company's claim comes right after Adobe's...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Passphrase, Adobe Acrobat, ElcomSoft, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-12-02
IT faces 'dire shortage' of core skills, study: The skills needed to modernize core IT assets are in short supply, according to latest report from the application-management company The lack of core IT skills is a major impediment to modernizing key IT assets, according to a survey by application-management company Micro Focus. ...; Tags: Skill, Information Technology, Micro Focus, Survey, Strategy, Marketing Research, Management, Marketing, IT management, jobs, skills, Colin Barker ZDNet.co.uk; News items 2008-12-02
Google Chrome and the extension conundrum: Google appears to be on the extension bandwagon for its Chrome browser, but that also opens a Pandora's box. In an extensions document via Stephen Shankland and Aaron Boodman Google outlines its plan to build extensions for Chrome. Extensions are the most requested feature for Chrome. ...; Tags: Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Extension, Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Tech CEOs: Will they step up in a downturn?: Technology CEOs worth their paychecks are going to use this economic downturn to revamp business models and position for the so-called post recession era. It sounds rather obvious, but why don't all CEOs follow this playbook? We've heard the mantra repeatedly: Reload in a downturn. And a...; Tags: Technology Company, Information Technology, CEO, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Social Networking, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-12-02
Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?: At well over 300 talkbacks and counting, plenty of folks took my challenge (and my reader's challenge) to sort out just what it would take to switch from Windows to desktop Linux. Obviously, there was plenty of the standard Windows vs. Linux bickering, but there were also a lot...; Tags: Desktop, Americans With Disabilities Act, Desktop Linux, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Remote Access, Software, Human Resources, Gender And Diversity, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-12-01
Using TREES to save the forest: Lots of green building news bouncing around in the past few weeks, which simultaneously disheartening and heartening because of the state of the real estate market. The biggest deal, perhaps, is the fact that the U.S. Green Building Council is updating its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design guidelines. (Here's...; Tags: Software, Power Consumption, TREES, Tools & Techniques, Real Estate, Management, Business Operations, Heather Clancy; Blog posts 2008-12-01
The widget conundrum: There's a pretty good article in Advertising Age about the benefits of widgets and the fact that not a lot of people are using it. AdAge says that "entire segment" will amount to around $100 million. That sounds like a chunk of money, and especially one for an industry that...; Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, Rich Internet Application, AdAge, Widgets, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-12-01
'Dumbing down' the security profession: * Ryan Naraine is traveling. Guest editorial by Shyama Rose The market for the development and implementation of source code analysis static and dynamic tools is swelling. Companies are increasingly relying on source code analysis tools to identify security-related vulnerabilities. The demand and reliance...; Tags: Analysis Tool, Vulnerability, Analysis, Tool, Productivity, Security, Ryan Naraine; Blog posts 2008-12-01
Distributed and Parallel Database Systems: The maturation of Database Management System DBMS technology has coincided with significant developments in distributed computing and parallel processing technologies. The end result is the emergence of distributed database management systems and parallel database management systems. These systems have started to become the dominant data management tools for highly data-intensive...; Tags: Database Management System, Database Management, Database System, University Of Alberta, Databases, Storage, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; White papers 2008-12-01
Security Lessons and Your Personal Firewall: There's an interesting dynamic I've been noticing and discussing a lot recently - people and companies are grappling with how to project some facets of their lives and information online while keeping other areas secret. As i suggested in my previous post, it...; Tags: Facebook, Firewall, Personal Firewall, Security, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-11-30
Business Service Automation: HP and Virtualization: Michel Feaster, Director of Products, Business Service Automation, of HP and I had an interesting conversation about managing, automating and orchestrating workloads and system resources. Although a cringe a bit when HP uses "BSA" as an acronym because it makes me think of things such as the BSA Motorcycles or...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Business Service, Automation, Strategy, Management, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-11-28
Microsoft's Live launches malware detection service for webmasters: Playing catch-up with Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Google's warnings for potentially hackable sites, and Yahoo's SearchScan introduced through their partnership with McAfee, Microsoft's Live Search has updated their Webmaster tools to offer detection for embedded malware. Moreover, as a late entrant they simply had to differentiate, and they did it...; Tags: Webmaster, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-11-26
New worm exploiting MS08-067 flaw spotted in the wild: Microsoft's Security Response Center and McAfee are warning on increased network scanning activity during the last couple of days courtesy of the very latest W32/Conficker.worm exploiting the already patched MS08-067 vulnerability. What's particularly interesting in the latest wave of copycat worms is that W32/Conficker.worm is patching the infected host in...; Tags: Flaw, Malware, Worm, Tool, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Productivity, Security, Dancho Danchev; Blog posts 2008-11-26
Talking with Likewise on GPLv3 and community management: I've been watching Palamida's tracking of GPLv3 (and LGPLv3) adoption over the last year with interest. It looks like adoption is moving at a reasonable, if not super-speedy, pace. However, not everyone is moving from version 2 to version 3. One company, Likewise, actually decided to move backwards from GPLv3...; Tags: Community, Likewise Software, GPLv3, Q, Open, Fall Edition, Joe Brockmeier; Blog posts 2008-11-26