Tolly: Taking (re)stock of Vista, 03/27/07
Given the generally glowing press that Microsoft’s Windows Vista has received, the terse notice I saw posted at a service counter at a south Florida Circuit City came as a bit of a shock to me. I can’t recall the exact words, but in summary, it said: …
Nutter’s Help Desk: Networking a small business, 03/26/07
Office 1 and 2 are in separate rooms in Building A on ground floor, Office 3 is on the first floor of Building A and Office 4 is 12 meters away on the ground floor. They all need a computer and internet access. The printers can be shared. I was going …
Backspin: The imminent death of Internet radio, 03/23/07
The Copyright Royalty Board has decided to raise the royalty rates for Internet radio stations. My goal this week is to get you fired up so that you will sign a petition and write to your member of Congress, and demand that this decision be …
‘Net Buzz: ‘Bong hits’ case may reverberate online, 03/23/07
Press attention on the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last week focused almost exclusively on free-speech issues for high school students while they’re in school or involved in school activities.
User View: Voice vs. data: how times have changed, 03/28/07
I remember the day I focused my career on data networking. It was 1993, and I was supporting Novell LANs, X.25 WANs and, as part of a departmental cross-training initiative, PBX installations and international voice services.
Bradner: Coping with grandstanding politicians, 03/28/07
From time to time politicians from both parties claim they want to protect children from the wilds of the Internet. Most often this happens in an election year, and most often what the politicians decide to do will not actually help achieve this aim …
Musthaler: Losing confidence in IT security, 03/28/07
Worldwide stock markets recently took a dive, some losing as much as 8% of their value overnight. Experts mostly blame the drop on loss of investor confidence rather than any underlying long-term problem. Confidence plays such a huge role in business …
Johnson: A carrier checklist for the future, 03/28/07
The good folks at the Yankee Group have come up with a vision of “the Anywhere Network” — which they describe as a seamless and always intelligent infrastructure for providing a connection for everyone to everything from anywhere. Their thesis is that …
Dzubeck: SOA still evolving, but questions remain, 03/23/07
As the rapid adoption of service-oriented architecture continues within the corporate environment, companies are realizing that implementation is not instantaneous but evolutionary.
Kamens: Making user access policies work for you, 03/23/07
Regardless of a company’s size, how it manages employee turnover, staff mobility, and increased use of consultants and contractors are causes for concern by auditors in terms of how user access rights are handled.
Editorial: Auditors can help, 03/30/07
If your company is large enough to have internal auditors, you may want to grab a copy of a new report from The Institute of Internal Auditors to see what role they can play in your assessment of outsourcing options.
Gearhead: Connecting audio, 03/29/07
Before we launch into this week’s main topic, we need to revisit an issue we covered a few weeks ago. In a recent column we discussed a way to get an OS X system to talk to a Windows 2003 Server acting as a domain controller by disabling the default …
Dr. Internet: Moving a default Liferay document library, 03/29/07
We have installed the Liferay portal software on a Windows server and accepted the installation default settings. Now we need to move our document library from its default location on the C: drive to a different disk partition. Can we move the …
