A warning about IE8 and Windows XP SP3
Friday, August 29th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »I'm no fan of beta software. Defensive Computing means never dealing with new software, be it in beta form or shortly after a major upgrade. Experimenters and the curious should use virtual machines. Now, from Sunbelt Software comes this warning about ...
Be safer than NASA and disable Autorun/Autoplay
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | 1 Comment »(Credit: NASA) NASA has confirmed that a computer on the International Space Station is infected with a virus (see Houston, we have a virus). The malicious software is called W32.TGammima.AG and technically it's a worm. The interesting point, other than how could NASA ...
A Search Engine For Finding Jobs
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | 1 Comment »Check out LinkUp! Rather than sifting through endless job sites and cherry picking your way through all the potential employers that you can think of (and worrying about who you aren't thinking of), LinkUp is one stop shopping to find ...
How your printer tricks you into buying ink and toner when you don’t need it
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Slate recently published a great article Take That, Stupid Printer! How to fight back against the lying, infuriating, evil ink-and-toner cabal by Farhad Manjoo. The title is a bit meaner than the article, which makes for interesting reading. If you own ...
Google Tip: Put Your Business on the Map
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Thanks to Sara Mannix, from Mannix Marketing, for this one. It came up in a recent interview for a story that I'm working on for this site. If you have a bricks and mortar business that relies on customers coming to ...
How Your Next Boss Will Find You
Monday, August 25th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »It won't be by posting a classified ad in your local paper(has anyone ever got a job that way?). It likely won't be by connecting through Monster.com or CareerBuilder, either. According to a recent survey by ExecuNet, an executive matchmaking firm, ...
Selling to the Feds - DCAA and Technology
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »DCAA – What is it and how can you comply? What is DCAA? The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), under the authority, direction, and control of the United States under the Secretary of Defense, performs all contract audits for the United States Department ...
When IT Projects Go Bad…
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »One reason that IT projects fail sometimes is due to apathy. It's important to remind your people why their work matters. Every business is providing something of value to someone. People don't give you money unless you do a good deed for ...
