The Left Field

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SOHO PC Racks

If I can order a rack of ribs, why can't I order a rack of PCs?

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Crimeware

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What is worse than reusing passwords?

Think your password resets are secure? Think again. The city you grew up in and your mother's maiden name can be derived from public records. Facebook might unwittingly tell the name of your best friend. And, until quite recently, Ford with its 25% market share had a pretty good chance of being the brand of your first car!

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Ace your IT career

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Finally -- An "Easy Button" for Professional Networking

For some IT professionals, “people” networking can be harder than getting their CCIE certification...

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Blue Gears - Virtualization Best Practices

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Even More Thoughts on Forensics

Acquiring virtual machines can be difficult if the VM resides upon a virtual machine file system (VMFS). Mainly because nothing but ESX understands a VMFS. Given this how do you acquire the appropriate files for forensic analysis in a forensically sound way?

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Unix as a Second Language

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Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition

Getting your friends and family to try Linux just got a lot easier. With the 3rd edition of Ubuntu for Non-Geeks and a desktop with spiffy visual effects, they might become easy converts!

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Smart Tech for Small Biz

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AGATT - All Google All The Time

One of the comments on my last post said Chrome's entry to the market is more than a browser war, it's really a browser versus Operating System war. If you tilt your head just right and squint a little, you can make a case for AGATT – All Google, All The Time.

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ITwhirled

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Genetically engineered ear hair to cure hearing loss?

Scientists have implanted genes into the ears of mice embryos to encourage their tiny adorable mouse ears to become much, much hairier -- and to hear better too.

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VoIP Security: Secrets and Hype

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VoIP security auditing is becoming more and more complex ... Not!

I am curious how people can conduct penetration tests of a complex VoIP system when they barely understand how VoIP infrastructure works. Today, security people are still stuck to auditing practices from 1990s. When asked to do a penetration test, a consultant often is only looking at past issues that can be detected using various vulnerability scanners. Very few of them know that vulnerability scanners have extremely bad coverage of vulnerabilities in VoIP solutions. And even if the tools did know VoIP, who really cares about past issues that might have been relevant several years ago.

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Virtualize your business

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Leadership readiness for virtual business

Organizational leadership in the virtual firm is fundamentally different than leadership in an Industrial-Era firm. Don’t get me wrong, the works of Frederick Winslow Taylor and Peter Drucker laid the foundation to scientific process management principals. However, these bellwethers were coming at business theory during the Industrial Revolution. Their focus was on improving assembly line efficiencies, the core of most companies in their era. Today we seek to improve the flow of intelligence: intelligence on supply chain, customer satisfaction, distribution, research and development, and other processes. Business processes and how they interplay are at the core of the virtual business.

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Get Started with Microsoft Expression Blend

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The design phase

Some of you may also be having a grumble right now, because you were sold on this concept of “rapid prototyping” with Expression Blend from Microsoft, which is fantastic and exactly the process you would rather be taking to really speed up this entire design phase, except for one little problem: if your designers are not comfortable with Blend, then you are not going to get a heavily designed prototype.

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