Security: Risk and Reward:  Outsourcing security: Worry about cost or focus?
Security work is a lot of fun. There’s always some new threat or technology just over the horizon, challenging our assumptions and existing controls. Things are changing so fast that is it almost impossible for a single person to have a broad view of security in all areas of IT. Even large companies rely on a handful of security specialists to create policies and design security controls across all applications and networks. If your security staff is spread too thin, however, they end up spending most of their time reacting to security problems rather than planning and securing emerging technologies and applications. That’s one reason why managed security services are gaining acceptance.
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Dr. Internet:  Looking for Windows troubleshooting tool
I'm looking for a Windows troubleshooting and monitoring tool that would act similar to a firewall at the process level to provide alerts when Dynamic Link Libraries and executable programs are loaded and run. Can you recommend anything?
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'Net Insider:  Lessons from the BlackBerry outage
About a year ago Research in Motion, the folks who bring you the BlackBerry e-mail-on-the-go device, paid more than $612 million to keep from being shut down by an injunction after being found guilty of patent infringement. A few months before the settlement, the U.S. Justice Department had filed a legal brief in the case asking for a delay in any shutdown to give the government time to develop a database of state and federal BlackBerry users (as many as 300,000 at the time) so that they could be exempted from disruption.
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Editorials:  OLPC laptop has the right stuff
Regardless of where you stand on Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child effort, there is no denying the attraction of the product this nonprofit has developed for distribution to needy children around the world.
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Op-ed:  How to find your security holes
It is crucial today to prevent vulnerabilities across the enterprise and remove security holes in your desktops, laptops and servers. Knowing what they are, where they are on your network, and how to remove them is more important than sniffing packets and listening for burglars.
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Gearhead:  Gearhead extra: All at sea with Xcelsius
1. We found several online references to “Short Timers Clock” and it appears to be applied specifically to countdowns and more commonly to countdowns to retirement. We found no etymology of the phrase.
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Gearhead:  All at sea with Xcelsius
You know how sometimes you pick up a product that is just amazing and you can't put it down? Soon the day has zipped past followed by the night and then the next morning and you discover that there's not enough coffee on the planet to keep you awake.
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Backspin:  The Physics of IT
Science is how we try to explain the universe and what the guys who do science (usually called “scientists” but you can call them anything you like because most of them are pretty nerdy) really want is a TOE. No, not those things that stop your feet from fraying; what they want is a Theory of Everything, a theory that allows them to start from first principles and deduce (if I might quote Douglas Adams) the existence of rice pudding and income tax.
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Eye on the Carriers:  Addressing the challenges in a virtual workplace
We’ve talked quite a bit recently about the inexorable shift toward the virtual workplace and reviewed the technical requirements for supporting one. Now it’s time to look at the challenges.
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'Net Buzz:  'Ideal digital kitchen' a recipe for overkill
The Internet Home Alliance will soon unveil its grand vision for "the ideal digital kitchen." Bet you didn't know you wanted a "recipe projection system."
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Nutter's Help Desk:  Naming network devices
Some of the network gear is named simply 'router', 'switch', etc. You can also tell where a particular device is located just by its IP address. Is there a recommended way to name the equipment?
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Cool Tools:  iPod video projector
The built-in iPod dock is cool for showing off videos stored on iPods, whether they're music videos, TV shows, movies or video podcasts (such as the Cool Tools Video Show) to a mass audience. The lightweight projector is also easy to carry around.
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