Technology

As I evaluate Windows 7 (which looks pretty good overall), I missed terribly the "Quick Launch" feature that I rely upon heavily in XP... So I found this very well done lesson on how to get the Quick Launch back in V7... http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/add-the-quick-launch-bar-to-the-taskbar-in-windows-7/ The Key thing you need to know is: Right-Click on the Taskbar, select "Too...

There have been a slew of high profile Drupal sites released recently. "The open source content management system (CMS), Drupal, continues to gain popularity both locally and internationally. The CMS powers several new high profile websites including the Prime Minister's site, launched last month and designed by Canberra-based company OPC IT and ABC's three digital radio websites – Dig Music, A...

The Cisco Unified CME system supports features you would come to expect from a time-division multiplexing (TDM) PBX or key system. These features can be divided into four categories: system, phone, trunk, and voice mail features. The major features in each category are included in the following list (current as of CME Version 4.3): System Features Account codes and Call Detail Record (CDR) ...

This is a really trendy idea - not big difference in terms of functionality - purely on the aesthetic side... http://www.core77.com/greenergadgets/entry.php?projectid=32 Design by: Brenden Macaluso ...

Created a quick powershell to backup a server disk to disk as follows: http://winterdom.com/2008/02/havescriptwillbackup/ http://atakan.titiz.net/2008/01/schedule-powershell-script.html http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/topics/winpsh/manual/run.mspx Thanks to all who contributed. Uses ROBOCOPY - very fast, flexible, and efficient. Scheduled, backup is a done deal. Now I ju...

I told you so. Google had to eventually threaten the Microsoft OS stranglehold. They could not in all conscience not do so. See their announcement here for some details of this very key development: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their em...

It's worth enabling SSH in nearly every case for normal day to day remote access. This is mainly due to the inherently insecure nature of its little brother - TELNET, which is completely un-encrypted and therefore sniffable on any network. Here's how: R2(config)#ip domain name cisco.com R2(config)#crypto key generate rsa The name for the keys will be: R2.cisco.com Choose the size of t...

We've had some issues recently, so I wanted to apologise for those and tell you that they are now resolved (or so my service provider tells me...) here is a history for the last few weeks - look what a bad cable can do to your reliability! This report is thanks to a free website uptime monitor from www.basicstate.com JaxBeachtech.com connection failures: Start , End, ??, Ping failur...

I have often wondered when Google would begin to develop an alternative to the windows platform - something for the rest of us... But it is already out there in plain sight - just smuggled under the radar in the form of a "phone operating system". Take a look at this post from Engadget - there is a video clip of a "smartbook" - an ASUS Eee PC prototype running google's "Android" on a 1GH...

Assembling a security policy can be a difficult task without guidance. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published a security standard called ISO/IEC 27002. This document refers to information technology related security issues and outlines a code of practice for IT security management. ISO/IEC 27002 provides a guideline for developing organizational security standard...