Networking

This network engineer pilot fish is trying to get help with a flaky domain controller, so he calls the help desk -- but the tech's only response is, "We're down."

Five different operating systems. 32 and 64 bits. One home network. One clueless journalist. Can it work?

Would you use a free project management service if it promised 97% accuracy on promise dates? You'd be foolish not to.

The blogosphere regularly excoriates Microsoft for being a monopoly, but Google, not Microsoft, may be in the cross-hairs of the nation's next anti-trust chief for monopolistic behavior. Last June Christine A. Varney, President Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief, warned that Google already had a monopoly in online advertising.

This company has a limited number of VPN connections, so IT sets up a terminal server gateway for some users to remote into their office PCs from home -- and for most of them, it works pretty well.

Mobile employees at this big international company already aren't entitled to a home office or use of a real office at a company location -- and with the economy going south, it's getting worse.

Hello, my name is Seth Weintraub. You might know me from such blogs as Apple Ink or 9to5Mac. Well, it turns out that I love Google almost, if not more, than Apple. So, here is Google Ink...

In a special IT Blogwatch Extra, Richi Jennings watches bloggers watch Google.org watch your power meter (phew). Not to mention Queen vs. Songsmith...

In Tuesday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Amazon launch its "new, improved" e-book reader. Not to mention corpulence pedagogy...

On Monday February 9, 2009 OpenDNS rolled out a new feature, one that neuters the Conficker worm by preventing it from getting new marching orders from the home office.

Ubuntu isn't just for Linux fans and desktops anymore. Canonical and analyst firm RedMonk have just released survey results that show that there are thousands of business server users who already consider Ubuntu Server mission critical.

I recommended in my blog yesterday that Microsoft should release a version of Internet Explorer for Linux, and it turns out that Microsoft has been there before...sort of. Years ago, it released a version of IE for Unix, the operating system upon which Linux is based. I've got details and links to where you can download it and to screenshots in my blog.

Open source, memory, mega routers,I/O and management have all recently shared the virtualization stage.

Market share for Internet Explorer continues to plummet, with potentially dire consequences for Microsoft. But there's one way Microsoft can help stem its overall losses: Release a version of IE for Linux. It's not as far-fetched an idea as you might think.

Emerging information technology opportunities in compliance, document management, virtualization and business intelligence.