We’ve heard the mantra often enough; that security is a multi-faceted affair – that it is not about the latest bleeding edge firewalls or antivirus software, but that it is also dependant upon users practicing a culture of safe computing.
Yet you know that the road ahead is a very long and arduous one when an […]

You might be the IT manager, departmental head, or perhaps just the chap that your boss put in charge of IT because of your slightly better literacy than the rest of your department.
Regardless of the size of your company however, you will definitely come across situations where you have to liaise with external IT vendors […]

Was hit by a virus attack couple of days ago. Have just (more or less) got most of the software back in and my laptop back to a functional state.
Read on to hear my experience of it.

Saw an article about thin clients on Network World recently. Essentially, it talks about how Verizon Wireless is currently heavily involved in a project project to replace thousands of call center PCs with Sun Microsystems’ thin client terminals.
By switching over to thin clients, Verizon was able to obtain both direct savings in terms of […]

According to their press release, Research In Motion (RIM) will let developers create applications for BlackBerry phones using Microsoft’s .NET programming environment.
The ability will come in the form of a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that lets developers to write application that integrate with existing back-end servers through .NET Web Services, according to RIM. […]

There’s a very annoying bug with UltraVNC on Windows in which shutting down a (local) Virtual Machine on VMware Server will cause it to immediately disconnect a VNC’ed client. Not only that, it will then enter into an endless loop that terminate any further attempts to connect.
Not such a big deal you might say; […]

eWeek has another interesting feature in which they present a list of the most important open-source applications in a series of slides. See if you agree with their appraisal, or if you have more to add to the list.
Below is the full list, with my own comments tackled on.

Business 2.0, the technology-aware magazine published by Time, periodically reminds readers of the importance of backing up computer files. In fact, a 2003 article likened backups to flossing - everyone knows it’s important, but few devote enough thought or energy to it.
It appears that Business 2.0, just last week, got caught forgetting to floss.
Essentially, […]