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Unix as a Second Language by Sandra Henry-Stocker

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Unix commands: The best tool for the job

With Unix, there are always many ways to do a single thing, but sometimes one approach is just a lot better! Let's look at a couple examples of commands that are right for the job.

Posted on 11/19/08 at 12:50 pm | awk, grep -c, Sandra Henry-Stocker, wc
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Smart Tech for Small Biz by James Gaskin

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Danger: 8GB USB Drive for $10

Don't you love the way technology prices drop and drop? Think about an 8GB storage device attached to your keyring. The cost of solid state memory keeps plummeting at an amazing rate, and I applaud the chip makers and manufacturers integrating such memory into their products.

Posted on 11/6/08 at 12:33 pm | backup, laptops, security, USB
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The Left Field by Sean McGrath

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Open Source Considered Harmful

Maybe it is just me but gosh, the unrelenting rate of change, of the rate of change, in IT is becoming brain frazzling. As soon as I think I have a handle on where things are currently at, along comes some new complex twist; some new turn; some new innovation that threatens to take the status quo and put it through the wood chipper.

Posted on 11/17/08 at 10:42 am | Complexity, open source
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Apple: Inside the cult by Josh Fruhlinger

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Beatles to Apple: We are the Walrus, you are not selling our music

This battle of the musical titans isn't over yet.

Posted on 11/24/08 at 10:36 pm | Apple, Beatles, iTunes Store
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IT Underworld by Phil Johnson

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Who you gonna call?

Can't get your cat out of a tree? Call the fire department. Can't get your cat videos on YouTube? Call the helpdesk.

Posted on 11/17/08 at 10:06 am | cartoon, humor
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Security Visualization by Raffael Marty

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What is the right graph to use in what situation?

Do you like pie charts? Have you ever thought about replacing them with a bar chart? Or a line chart? Do you know when to use what chart?

Posted on 11/6/08 at 8:39 pm | charts, parallell coordinates, treemap, visualization
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Windows in the Enterprise by Mitch Tulloch

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Vista, SSDs and Disk Fragmentation

Tips on how to get the most out of running Vista on laptops that have Solid State Disks (SSDs).

Posted on 11/10/08 at 6:15 am | laptops, Mitch Tulloch, SSD, Windows Vista
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ITwhirled by Amy Bennett

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Quiz: This week in quotes

Whoever said techies aren't funny clearly haven't been reading the news -- or at least not reading it with an eye for irony. This week we learned that Gmail glitches that left customers without email for 24-plus hours wasn't really that big a problem; that microsoft is doing "really well" if it's accurate half the time; that seven years isn't all that long to wait for a patch; and that headphones and pacemakers don't mix. Go on, take the quiz. It'll be fun.

Posted on 11/13/08 at 1:42 pm | Google, Microsoft, patch, space
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Virtualize your business by Martha Young

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Defrag 2008, A Social Networking Conference

Defrag 2008 was held in Denver last week. Defrag is a social networking conference that brings together innovators, businesses and investors for a couple of days of robust dialoging on the business value of social networking tools, what is available in the market and what is coming down the pipe. The last day of the Defrag conference did a smooth transition into the Denver-Boulder Technology MeetUp, which made for an immersive, intensive, educational experience on the state of social networking.

Posted on 11/10/08 at 4:38 pm | privacy issues, social networking, web 2.0, web presence
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Blue Gears - Virtualization Best Practices by Edward Haletky

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VMware HA failed with error....

How to fix the cryptic VMware HA failed with error messages. This is a caustic error that actually has no real meaning other than to say VMware HA could not start, but not actually why!

Posted on 11/5/08 at 10:49 am | VMware, VMware HA
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