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1) AppRiver's Microsoft Exchange Hosting with Shoreline
Antonio Palumbo, IT manager with Blue Man Productions, in New York, says …
When I came here, Blue Man management had started the process of moving from [Alt-N Technologies' MDaemon e-mail server] to AppRiver by putting any new employee on AppRiver Exchange Hosting. I was happy about that, but I wanted to be sure we had everyone on AppRiver. With MDaemon, we were constantly getting bombarded with trouble tickets, so every time we moved a user to AppRiver that would mean one less problem because Exchange Hosting is so solid.
I knew that getting everybody on the same e-mail system, with unlimited storage, was going to make everyone's life a lot easier and simpler. (Storage is a huge issue here -- the original Blue Man, which started 20 years ago, literally still has every e-mail stored).
Today, all that storage is no longer a problem. It's on AppRiver's servers and backed up constantly, with redundancy across the AppRiver infrastructure. Plus, end users can check their e-mail anywhere in the world as long as they have an Internet connection. So, a huge chore has been lifted.
Blue Man is a very fun, mobile and young company. Everybody knows Blue Man for the theatre production, but we also have a school, the Blue Man Creativity Center in New York for children. E-mail, of course, is a huge part of that. People don't just sit at their desks at Blue Man. They're always walking around, and traveling internationally, and the fact that they never have to be concerned about getting their e-mail means they can focus on their creative strategies.
A lot of folks here have company-issued BlackBerrys, of course, but they also have iPhones. AppRiver is one of the first companies to offer iPhone support, with Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. That was a huge plus for us. In the corporate environment, when folks come in with iPhones, and say, "Hey can we set this up with Exchange?" nine out of 10 times the answer is "No." But here at Blue Man, it was a definite, "Yes," and that makes things flow a lot easier.
Every piece of e-mail, no matter the device, goes through AppRiver servers. We have over 600 users, who each get more than 100 to 200 e-mails per day, so we do huge volume. AppRiver helps me sleep easy at night.
For management, AppRiver provides us with the Secure Hosted Exchange with Shoreline interface, which is amazing. I can log into a public Web site, with a secure connection, from anywhere in the world and create an e-mail account on the fly. From the application standpoint, I go into Shoreline, download a password request form, hit 'next' and everything is configured for me – e-mail accounts, servers, public folders, calendars.
Accounts are easy to set up, and the return on investment is unbelievable. By using AppRiver we save anywhere from 25% to 30% per year, depending on the user base, which changes month to month. First, we don't have to buy more hard drives and, from a support standpoint, we have no need to have a full-time Exchange administrator. That saves us $100,000. And AppRiver pricing is very aggressive per user.
We would have been crazy not to go with AppRiver.
2) BeyondTrust's Privilege Manager
Ned Cahill, IT director at Schnabel Engineering, in Glen Allen, Va., says …
We were running Symantec, and a year to a year and a half ago, an upgrade broke all the servers and was a disaster on the laptops. It took us four or five days to get it working correctly.
We said, 'There's got to be a better way. How do we stop malware from coming in, other than fighting these ridiculous virus programs constantly?' Then the idea came up, 'You know, if they're not administrators, the software can't install.' And we thought that was a brilliant idea, and started futzing around looking for tools that would accomplish the task.
We needed a tool that would let us balance what users need to do their jobs against what we need to keep malware from coming in. Compliance was an issue, too. I work with engineers who installed software because it was the tool they needed to do their jobs at that moment regardless of licensing issues.
They wouldn't do this to be evil, or to screw the vendor – they would do it because it was the shortest path to the answer they needed. But they were installing software that we (IT) thought we could get bit in the butt on, and we decided that had to stop, too.
Surprisingly enough, we didn't find many tools and those we did find were homegrown, difficult to set up and deal with and didn't really fall under Active Directory, which is big for us. It wasn't until we discovered the term "least privilege" that we came across BeyondTrust. We downloaded Privilege Manager and in about an hour, we had accomplished what we were looking to accomplish, which was pull administrator rights, but still give users the ability to do their job.
BeyondTrust also is very good with support. If you have a question, and send an e-mail, you’ll get an answer that day. You don't get that with a lot of vendors, so I like that. I want to be a big fish in somebody's small pond.
We have 400 users scattered nationwide, and 100 of them can be anywhere in the world. We're in foreign countries all the time, and users have to be able to connect and work. It's very tricky to do if you take away their admin rights, but we've had no problem at all. I don't want to keep adding support people as we hire. I want my support guy to be able to take care of more and more people, and these kinds of tools help.
And BeyondTrust is transparent to users. It installs through an Active Directory policy. We did the installation in about three hours – we just told everybody to reboot. It was great – and not having to spend my nights chasing down a virus has been fantastic.
Jake Seitz, enterprise architect at The First American Corp., in Santa, Ana, Calif., says …
My all-time favorite product is the Macintosh.
The first time I got my hands on a Mac was probably in '85 or '86, at the computer science lab in college. That was the beginning of the desktop phenomenon. In late 80s, everybody started going with Windows as well, but the Mac just kind of stuck with me.
In the corporate environment, we use Macs for just about everything – for audio and visual, for videoconferencing, for typical tasks, like Word and Exchange. So really, from my perspective as an architect, I use it for just about everything. Of course, I also use Windows machines at work. Each has its pros and cons.
The corporate policy here is Windows-based, but you can opt out for a Mac and receive partial support. "Crusade" is probably too strong a word, but I definitely have persuaded some folks here at work that Macs might be the best fit for them, so we're starting to see more and more Macs pop up.
Today I use an iMac. My favorite features are videoconferencing and audio editing. If I need to use a Windows platform, I remotely connect to it from my virtual desktop and do whatever I need to do. But probably 90 to 95% of the time I'm using the Mac.
4) Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1
Bryce Morrow, CTO at The Beck Group, in Dallas, says …
We'd been using Lotus Notes since around '97 timeframe, and by 2006 we felt it had atrophied. That's when we really started talking about needing more integration between CRM, other applications and e-mail.
Integration is our business, not from a technology standpoint, but from a business-process standpoint. We have done a good job of becoming an integrated firm, so I felt like we needed a product that would allow us to do more of that – be integrated and grow in an integrated manner. That's not to say Lotus Notes couldn't do that, but we didn't have the staff to continue developing for it at the rate we needed.
In July '07, I started looking at Google Apps and Exchange. I felt that the online application service was around the corner -- and by that I mean Google serving up applications, Word documents, spreadsheets, and the like – but it wasn't quite ready at that point and I wasn't willing to take the risk.
I was pulled to Exchange because of the entire Microsoft suite – not only Exchange, but MOSS [Microsoft Office SharePoint Server], LiveMeeting, SCCM [System Center Configuration Manager], six or seven products – and I felt that would give us a good jumpstart on integration with the infrastructure and with non-Microsoft and business-critical systems and applications.
We made the decision to go with Exchange in January of 2008, and went live Aug. 18.
We are running 13 virtual servers in our Exchange environment with 1,000 users on three physical hosts. We use VMware ESX server connected to Apple Xserve RAID storage.
The Exchange environment has outperformed our expectations. The virtualization piece really makes the servers easier to manage from an administrator's standpoint. The learning curve for our employees has been minimal, and they are able to do things in Outlook that were not possible in the old system.
For example, the way we archive e-mails for legal purposes is so more streamlined now. At a job site, what used to take, say, an hour, now takes 10 minutes. And, before when users archived documents out at a job site, they never knew what was happening. The screen locked up and they had to wait. Now they see a progress bar. It still may not move as fast as they'd like, but at least they can see the progress, and it has drastically reduced our remote location e-mail archival issues. That was a huge productivity gain for us on the project – and a very important one at that.
5) Sophos' Endpoint and Security Control software
John Endahl, senior information security administrator at Tech Team Global, in Southfield, Mich., says …
When I first came into the organization five years ago, we were using another company's endpoint security product. It was one of the top three products, but we kept having issue after issue with it and the support was absolutely horrible. When it came time to renew our contract three years ago, we could pay almost double the cost for a better support contract, or we could switch to different product.
We started a six-month process of evaluating products based on our criteria: It had to be simple to deploy and to administer. It had to have decent antispam capabilities for a gateway product. It had to have good technical support – which is really why we wanted to get away from our previous vendor. And it had to be something I was capable of administering on a day-to-day basis. We've got offices pretty much all over the world, and we're still expanding. I have to be able to look at what's going on at all these different locations, make sense of a problem, and if I'm not able to correct it immediately, I need to make sure I've got the support behind me that will get it resolved quickly. In the final analysis, Sophos had all the essential pieces without making the product so technically challenging that we'd have problems rolling it out.
What won me over from a technical standpoint was Sophos' updating mechanism. The other vendors released weekly or daily updates that typically would be megabytes in size. So every time an update came out, we'd be downloading a multi-megabyte file to a central server and then pushing that multi-megabyte file out to every single system over the local network. With Sophos, new definitions get released as they're ready to go. Sophos typically releases eight to 10 definitions a day. Those definitions are very small, like 4K each, which makes download and deployment much quicker and easier with a whole lot less network overhead. Because those definitions are so small, we can have our systems update every 15 minutes with no impact on the endpoints. This reduces the vulnerability window against any new or emerging threats.
Over last three years, Sophos has built a lot of additional functionality into the product. It has rolled out application control, for example, so we can stop unauthorized applications [like games or some business tools] from running on our network. It has also rolled out device control, so we have the ability to lock down USB devices, CD-ROMs, floppy disks, etc., to keep anything nasty from coming in from that particular attack vector. And it recently rolled out network access control as part of the product. Since all this added functionality comes at no additional cost to us, that's a return on investment we can really appreciate and show to our vice presidents.
As for support, normally the phone gets answered within the first four or five rings, and I have a tough time getting the person off the phone till that person has resolved the issue. … I've been amazed and impressed with the depth of knowledge every support person I've talked to has about the inner workings of the product. They get in there, know exactly what an error message means and know where to go from there.
6) Cisco Aironet 1142 wireless access point
Erik Parker, a senior infrastructure analyst at Toyota Motor Sales, in Torrance, Calif., says …
We have about 2,800 access points deployed today across the country. The bulk of them are installed in warehouses, which is strictly for parts picking. But we also have them in all of our regional sales offices, for general usage -- laptops, guest access and for some specialty devices; our service training division; and, of course, our campus wireless, which covers the 22 buildings here. The campus wireless is used primarily by our guests, because we have so many vendors and consultants on campus, and then secondarily by associates.
On campus, where we've got tons of file sharing, larger applications, streaming video, things like that. The 802.11n wireless network is the first technology that's really allowing us to consider no longer running wires to the desktop. The throughput of 802.11g just wasn't quite high enough. But now the n-based access points are pretty much giving us the same throughput as a hard-wired 100Mbps link, while using a 40MHz channel width. (Read a test of 802.11n gear.)
We originally started testing with the 1252s, which is the ruggedized "n" access point and we saw phenomenal speeds. When we got the first 1142 in for testing, we saw the same types of speeds, but the 1142 has a couple of big advantages over the 1252 for the office area. One, it has an integrated antenna so it can be placed above the ceiling tile and, two, it runs off of normal 802.3af power. The 1142 is nice; we just plug it into our standard Catalyst 6500 or Catalyst 3750 PoE chassis and it powers up perfectly and starts servicing clients and connects to the controller.
The 1142's beamforming is one feature/functionality that is extremely cool, but because of our quick life cycle of being able to retire old protocols we won't get a lot of benefit out of. If you take away all the marketing terms and fluff and read the technology behind beamforming, it's really incredible. The fact that it's able to juice more power, or get a higher signal-to-noise ratio to each client on a per-packet basis, is amazing. Beamforming is allowing us to get higher speeds to our "g" clients because we're able to offer them a better signal-to-noise ratio overall. I know beamforming is part of the standard, as an optional piece, but how Cisco is doing it [in silicon] is cool. When you look at how many clients have so-so signal-to-noise ratios, increasing those will provide a huge benefit.
We have the 1142 running in a test environment currently. The first site rolling out all n-based wireless network is coming up the first week in March. That's a small remote service training site, so it'll only get about a dozen access points. By the end of this year, we'll probably have about 50 1142s deployed, mostly here on campus – between the two engineering buildings – and then by the end of next year we'll have 450 deployed, which will be all of campus. Once we're done, we'll be looking at about 900 users moving to 802.11n.
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The networkiest moments in sportsBy Anonymous on October 23, 2007, 9:00 pmWe want to hear from YOU!
What do think are the the "networkiest" moments in sports? Check out the our picks and let us know what you think.
Favorite Firefox extensionsBy Anonymous on October 23, 2007, 11:28 amWe want to hear from YOU!
Check out our 20 Great FireFox Extensions slideshow and let us know what you think and/or what we missed. Join the discussion below.
Very nice articleBy Anonymous on August 28, 2008, 10:19 amVery nice and useful article. I often keep on finding extensions on Mozilla site but these were some which were unheard of and are Cool! Thanks for such a nice informative article!
NoScript should be #1 at the top of the list!By Anonymous on August 27, 2008, 5:00 pmI concur with all previous comments that recommend NoScript. Firefox w/ NoScript installed is the most secure browser available, period. If you are simply concerned with security or a security professional, I hope you have not overlooked the most important Firefox extension of them all.
Morning coffee is a greatBy Anonymous on June 20, 2008, 4:49 amMorning coffee is a great extension, too...!
My favorite extensionsBy Anonymous on June 19, 2008, 7:42 pmAlphabetically, here are extensions I wouldn't want to live without: Abduction - "prints" a web page to a graphic. great for those annoying websites which won't print the way they display. Daily Dilbert - need we say more, nerd to nerd? Enhanced History Manager. - FF's history manager is lame beyond belief. eQuake Alert - status bar addin that links to the USGS quakes page. Critical if you live in California. FEBE (extensions backup) - FIrefox every so often deletes stuff (like my bookmarks, and my history). This makes backup of the key config files so easy if you have a disaster. Firesizer - lets you resize a window with ease Image Zoom - resize graphics when you can see them because they display too small or too large. PDF DOwnload - open PDF files in a new FF Tab Tab browser preferences - better control over preferences
FF extension - Download StatusbarBy geteachm on June 18, 2008, 12:40 pmTried to install Download Statusbar. Received message saying that it wasn't compatible with FireFox 3.0. Oh well. George
help pleaseBy Anonymous on April 30, 2008, 8:37 amHi Firefox is very good. Do you know a Firefox extension for downloading Yahoo! folders? Sincerely, Dan Gheorghe
Favorite Firefox extensionsBy Anonymous on April 11, 2008, 2:42 amThere are some new ones for me i'm going to try soon. I've one not mentioned here that I realy adore and that is CustomizeGoogle https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/743 ,it lets you enhance google, gmail and some other google applications.
UserAgent SwitcherBy Anonymous on April 10, 2008, 10:49 pmA Developer's tool to switch to multiple user agents and not just IE or Safari - as well to browsers for all kinds of handheld devices that render xhtml,wml, html etc. Very helpful for Mobile Site Development.
My favouritesBy Anonymous on April 10, 2008, 8:21 pmIn order: 1. Adblock Plus 2. Noscript 3. Delicious
veoh playerBy Anonymous on March 22, 2008, 11:41 amwith the upgrade to firefox 3,I can no longer use my veoh player
Although the slideshowedBy Anonymous on March 18, 2008, 6:50 pmAlthough the slideshowed list gives a good basis for users to build their own suite from, I would have to say that some of my most useful extensions are overlooked, whilst others, which I have no use for, are listed quite prominently. The NetworkWorld List:
- Greasemonkey
Agreed. An incredible extension which allows the web to be trimmed, manipulated or extended from it's current form into a more useful/user-friendly form.
- IE Tab
For a developer, and especially a developer who only has to worry about rendering in one version of IE, this would fit the bill. For me, I use a number of standalone'd IEs in different versions when testing sites to ensure cross-browser reliability.
- Tab Mix Plus
Disagree. The native tab functions of FF2 cover the majority of my use, and in conjunction with Session Manager, I haven't seen any features wanting since I stopped using Tab Mix Plus (which happened about FF1.5).
- Web Developer
Disagree. Whilst this extension does offer some weighty tools to help in development, the toolbar is next best thing to useless and is quite intrusive. Even when the toolbar is hidden, the extra features are not used regularly enough to bother having this one installed, especially with the features offered by FireBug.
- FireBug
Agreed. This extension and it's ability to supervise AJAX actions, CSS rules, HTML source, Load times, etc makes it an incredible and indispensible tool.
- FoxMarks Bookmark Synchroniser
Disagree. I used to use this extension, but have found that the Google Browser Sync offers better functionality.
- Clipmarks
Disagree. But then again, I am not running around and trying to backup the internets.
- Adblock
Semi-Agree. I prefer Adblock Plus.
- Colorful Tabs
Disagree. Nothing but fluff.
- Download Statusbar
Disagree. More fluff.
- Cooliris
Disagree. Nice if you're a YouTube addict, but not for much more.
- del.icio.us Firefox Extension
Semi-Agree. Great if you are a del.icio.us user, and even a nice concept if you are not, but it would be nice if this extension supported other bookmarking services.
- ColorZilla
Agreed. This extension is incredibly useful, especially when tweaking CSS color schemes.
- FireFTP
Semi-Agree. As a quick solution, it is great, but I prefer the deeper functionality of FileZilla for any heavy lifting.
- DownThemAll!
Agreed. Every leech's dream.
- FoxyTunes
Disagree. Just clutter, when Launchy or similar can be used to manage iTunes from any application.
- ScrapBook
Disagree. Again, maybe if you are backing up the internets.
- McAfee SiteAdvisor
Agreed. Nice to have a second opinion right there.
- Gmail Manager
Disagree. I let Gmail manage Gmail - much easier that way.
- Yahoo Mail Notifier
Disagree. Only if you are a Yahoo-er, which I am not.
My Top 20emailBy Anonymous on March 18, 2008, 2:20 pmWould like to see the get mail add on updated to work with the new version of Firefox
Extension missedBy Anonymous on October 30, 2007, 6:47 amA couple of all time greats that I miss from the list are: - Forecastfox (local weather right in your browser) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/398 - Scribefire (instant blogging right from your browser) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1730 - Slashdotter (must have imho) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2175
I would add Calculator toBy Anonymous on January 18, 2008, 6:37 pmI would add Calculator to the list as well. It can be set-up as a side bar and results are kept after closed as well
Fire Fox must have add-onsBy Anonymous on October 29, 2007, 1:16 amI use: Adblock plus NoScript Forecastfox Enhanced Colorzilla BlockSite AutoCopy Bibleserver Toolbar FirePhish Free Translate! Fire Encrypter DownThemAll! IE Tab MEasureIt MSTS-Dictionary MR. TEch Local Install PDF Download StumbleUpon (Great) TotalValidator Yahoo Mail Notifier SpiderZilla
QuickJist summarizerBy Anonymous on September 6, 2008, 5:23 amI would add QuickJist summarizer to this list. It is a great helper extension for reading web pages. This is the extension's website: http://www.quickjist.com/
fire ftpBy Anonymous on October 25, 2007, 10:19 amfireftp is one of my favs.... allows easy ftp transfers with simple drag and drop inside for firefox
Flashblock is a mustBy Anonymous on October 25, 2007, 7:04 amThis extension automatically stops flash from playing, but can easily be enabled by simply clicking once within the frame where the flash is located. This is useful when wanting to hide advertisements and other annoying things that almost every web page has. To be clear, it doesn't eliminate the flash, it just stops it from playing unless it is clicked. You can then choose to always play flash from a particular site. A MUST have!!!
NoScriptBy Anonymous on October 24, 2007, 7:57 pmNoScript is my favorite extension to Firefox. It allows you to control what sites you allow to run JavaScript (or other active content), temporarily or permanently. The default for an unknown site can be set to the safest level, then you can decide what to allow as needed. It is unobtrsuive but still keeps browsing far safer and more controlled.
Check out my listBy Anonymous on October 24, 2007, 3:09 pmhttp://zia.blogspot.com/2007/07/7-months-later-15-firefox-extensions-i.html
NoScript is great, allowsBy Anonymous on October 24, 2007, 11:02 amNoScript is great, allows only the ones you aprove of to run.
Agreed!!! Between NoScriptBy Anonymous on October 26, 2007, 2:54 amAgreed!!! Between NoScript and AdBlock security and privacy are much enhanced.
FF extensionsBy Anonymous on October 24, 2007, 10:17 amStylish is an excellent extension that should be missed. You can get rid of many FF extensions in lieu of CSS code with stylish. There are Stylish code sheets you can down load and it makes your FF implementation less heavy.
Staples Inc to sell Dell computers in its storesBy Anonymous on October 22, 2007, 12:06 pmStaples Inc said on Monday it will start selling Dell Inc personal computers, printers, and monitors in their stores. Items will start showing up next month in some 1,400 Staples stores, Thanks, A.Lenehan www.nytechnology.net
Technologies we're glad are deadBy Anonymous on October 19, 2007, 5:30 pmI don't think dial-up modems and dot-matrix printers are dead. They are not as widely used as in the old days though.
Oracle offers $6.7 billion bid for BEA SystemsBy Anonymous on October 12, 2007, 12:10 pmOracle Corporation made a $6.7 billion unsolicited offer to buy BEA Systems Inc. Oracles bid for BEA was aimed at bolstering its line of middleware applications. The deal comes a week after German rival SAP offered 4.8 billion euros ($6.8 billion) for Business Objects raising expectations for further consolidation in the software industry. Following the announcement, shares in BEA jumped nearly 32 percent in premarket trading to $17.96 after the announcement. This announcement could start a bidding war amongst several potential suitors for BEA: IBM, Microsoft, HP may counter bid oracles offer. A.Lenehan www.nytechnology.net
Readers' Choice: Networkiest Horror FilmsBy Anonymous on October 11, 2007, 6:35 pmDON'T BE AFRAID -- WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
Check out Network World's favorite 15 networky horror films and let us know what YOU think! Let us know what we missed and what's on your top horror flicks list.
976-EVILBy Anonymous on October 12, 2007, 7:53 pm976-EVIL (1989) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094597/ directed by Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund.
Ok, it's older telephone-network horror schlock instead of Internet-based schlock.com, but a couple of your choices were really SneakerNet rather than on-line networking, so this one belongs in there as well.
Character sees an add for "Horrorscopes" at the pay-per-call service number 976-EVIL, starts getting revenge on his enemies, and his younger cousin starts dialing it and gets possessed by the devil and slashes away.
Top 12 Google GPhoniesBy Anonymous on October 10, 2007, 5:02 pmWhat do you think about all the GPhone hype? Got your own mock-ups to share? Are you interested in one? Do you care? Take a look at our favorite picks from all the Photoshop frenzy and let us know what you think.
Err most are sligtlyBy Anonymous on February 21, 2008, 7:49 amErr most are sligtly remodelled existing phones... Square flat one is an iPhone but square. The slide up screen ones look like HTC Touches and such, Some look like Blackberries. Infact, there are HTC's, samsungs and an iPhone all shown with a google screen on the page. Thats called having a browser, which you know, every smart phone made in the last few years have.
Anyhone else notice that 3By Anonymous on November 5, 2007, 5:20 pmAnyhone else notice that 3 of these designs had Windows Mobile running on them? This is a linux powered OS. To be in the top picks, the screens should at least have no trace of Windows Mobile. My hope is that AT&T and Palm do not plan to upgrade the Treo 750 to the GPhone OS.. or it'll be another 3 years of promised release dates that will never see the light of day.... With any luck, the GPhone OS will be available for free (it is linux based after all), and will be able to be pushed onto any smartphone by the tend user, w/o requiring the phone company's approval. Hey, I can dream can't I?
Not glass, e-InkBy Anonymous on October 14, 2007, 5:11 pmNo, no, no ... you got it all wrong. It's not GLASS, it's transparent e-Ink that spools into the handholds, which collapse together to make a very stylish and compact phone! To use the net, open like a good old fashioned ancient parchment scroll! Shweet!
#7 - the sci-fi connectionBy Anonymous on October 12, 2007, 8:19 pmThe device shown in #7 looks like the communication devices used in the sci-fi series "Earth: Final Conflict." The devices used in the series were called globals. The global screen retracted into the handle when not in use.
No kings among geeksBy Anonymous on October 1, 2007, 5:13 pmThe elevation of Bill Gates to iconic status among technologists is offensive. As far as I can tell, the only technology Bill Gates deserves any personal credit for are the traffic counter and the paper tape interface for the Altair, both of which he co-developed with Paul Allen. Beyond that, he had the foresight to say yes when IBM offered to put a cash hose in his pocket, an offer that was refused Gary Kildall (or his wife and lawyer) at Galactic Digital Research. Gates bought or pirated every technology that makes Microsoft Corporation the market leader it is. Gates may look the part of a geek, may even act the part of a geek, but he is, in fact, the privileged son of the upper class in the Seattle metropolitan area, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, an outstanding businessman but a mediocre technologist. He is one of many famous people who are rich from owning a computer industry company that IBM handed them on a silver platter (Ellison, McNealy, Andy Grove and Gordon Moore, etc.) Steve Wozniak was a king among geeks - he designed and built the first Apple in his garage. Vinton Cerf is a retired king among geeks - he co-developed TCP/IP, thus "inventing" the Internet. Getting rich from technology through the actions of others does not make a person a King Geek, or even a geek at all. Maybe we should say nerd - a geek is anyone who looks like one, whereas a nerd can actually hot wire a computer or repair a busted TV set with the tools he keeps in his pockets. Gates mostly played cards at Harvard, and did not spend much time in the lab. Some "King!"
Ok!By Anonymous on July 23, 2009, 5:46 amOk!
iPhone Hacker videoBy Anonymous on October 1, 2007, 4:14 amHere's a video interview of the 17 y.o. kid that started the iPhone hack that I found tonight on Webcastr.com. or this link: http://webcastr.com/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&Itemid=27&id=594 Worth watching!
iPhone hacker guyBy Anonymous on January 8, 2008, 3:44 amThis is so great. The kid is 17 years old and he hacked Apple iPhone to get rid of the AT&T and switch to T-Mobile. George Hotz - truly a real whiz kid! Then AAPL was up! Plus he's llokingfor a call from Steve Jobs - wonder if he got that! Cool.
CertegyBy Anonymous on September 21, 2007, 2:09 amYou know why their so cavalier. Because we aren't the income generators for this company. I wrote a letter to Walmart. How can this company stop you from cashin a payroll check. I'm going to write every one of their vendors, (which will be a task since they're an offshoot of the credit bureau. What a scam. They have all of our credit infomration and now they can have our checking information too. I know the SEC has to have a law against this type of monopoly and blackmailing technique. Any brave attorneys out there to let me know. thanks
Certegy & Payroll ChecksBy Anonymous on January 13, 2008, 8:32 pmI think I know why. I sell financial services to merchants. I sell a check guarantee service that competes with Certegy. They will not guarantee third-party checks and a payroll check is a third-party check. Oh yes, most guarantee companies will not guarantee a check for over $1,500,
RE: Stars of the Network ZodiacBy Anonymous on September 11, 2007, 12:30 pmWe want to hear from YOU: Did we miss anyone in our networking astrological chart? Let us know who or what company and why. Take a look at the slideshow
Apple unleashes next-gen iPodsBy Anonymous on September 7, 2007, 3:25 pmWe want to know what YOU think of the new the iPods. Were you shocked and awed? Not impressed? Speak out!
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Top 10 networkiest eBay oddities (Readers' Choice)By Anonymous on August 16, 2007, 4:58 pmWe want to hear from YOU: What are the networkiest eBay oddities? Let us know if you've seen something more outrageous than what we've seen over the years in our slideshow here. When you make a submission, please include any links and additional info.
weird ebayBy Anonymous on October 4, 2007, 2:21 amBecome invisible? Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/BECOME-INVISIBLE-walk-unseen-among-people-or-CROWDS_W0QQitemZ130159749516QQihZ003QQcategoryZ1469QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Discrimination still existsBy Anonymous on August 14, 2007, 10:05 am
I have been in the IT field for 25 years and YES there is still an abundant amount of dicrimination against women in the workplace, especially in the south. You don't get credit for your work and are never taken seriously. I have experienced having to train my IT Director without the job ever being posted. HR treats it as "your perception" and demeans you.
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Certegy lawsuitBy Anonymous on August 11, 2007, 12:15 pmA law firm out of California is gathering info from consumers affected by theft of credit info from Certegy. I found them when I googled Certegy. They are Girard Gibbs LLP at http://www.girardgibbs.com/. I received a Certegy letter in July and on July 31, a fraudulent charge of $3000 appeared on my Amex account. I'm in the process of dealing with that now. I'm in the position of having to check every account every day in order to catch fraudulent charges as quickly as possible. I followed the instructions about freezing my files with the credit reporting companies, but that won't be enough. I want to know what info was stolen: my soc. sec. number, my account numbers? All these careless, thoughtless companies should be made to pay for the anguish and aggravation they cause.
How to configure QOS in Cisco 2600 Router?By Anonymous on July 23, 2007, 3:21 amHi, How to configure QOS in Cisco 2600 Router. Advance Thanks for your reply, Thanks & Regards Karthik E.D
cisco infrastructureBy Anonymous on June 15, 2009, 8:32 amiam a system engineer i want to apply qos to distribute bandwidth so i want to configure a qos in 2621 router. how should i do that . i never configured earlier so iam some confussion . can u help me
Wireless Access - Cannot log to internetBy Anonymous on July 14, 2007, 12:03 pmI have two laptops - Dell Latitude 8100 and Dell Inspiron 600m. I can get wireless internet 600m but not in the latitude 8100. In both case the intel pro wireless shows green. But in the latitude 8100 I cannot log in through any website.
Patent Law IndiaBy Anonymous on July 8, 2007, 10:41 amPatent system in India is administered under the superintendence of the Controller General of Patents, Designs, Trademarks and Geographical Indications. The Office of the Controller General functions under the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. Controller General’s office is in Mumbai. There are four patent offices in India. The Head Office is located at Kolkata and other Patent Offices are located at Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. The Controller General delegates his powers to Sr. Joint Controller, Joint Controllers, Deputy Controllers and Assistant Controllers. Examiners of patents in each office discharge their duties according to the direction of the Controllers. please visit for more details http://www.delhilaw.firm.in/articlenews/patentlawindia.htm http://trustman.org/lawfirm/trademark_india.htm
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