IBM will hire 15,000 new employees--50 percent more than originally planned--in areas such as software and services because of a rebound in the economy, a top executive said Saturday.
Modern PC News for the Week Ending February 15, 2004TheRegister.co.uk |
Radio Hackers Hurl Drive-By Abuse at Burger King Customers Burger King customers visiting a
drive-through restaurant had to run a gamut of abuse after pranksters
succeeded in hacking into the outlet's wireless intercom system.
Investigators believe teenage practical jokers are behind the insults
delivered to Burger King customers at an outlet outside Troy, Michigan
over the last fortnight. SearchEngineWatch.com | 2003's Most Wanted Search Terms The most popular search terms of the past year reveal as much about the interests of searchers as they do about the perceived "personalities" of the major search engines.
TheTouque.com |
Why I Lost That I.T. Job You may have won this round. It is quite possible that I forgot to backup the web server that evening, but believe me, it was only because I was busy upgrading the firmware on our firewall, and probably editing the .html documents for the company's mission statement. Firing me will only make me stronger.
It seems quite obvious now that you had a problem with what you call "my attitude". You certainly had an issue with the hours that I worked. But even had I shown up at 8:30 when my job started, instead of rolling in at 8:42, I'm sure no one would have noticed. Had I been "on-time," those twelve minutes would have undoubtedly been spent mixing my Mt. Dew with Cherry Pepsi anyway, a concoction that makes me more productive than any two other IT personnel put together. Perhaps you thought I should have limited my trips to the lunchroom, or waited for an "official" break to stink up the bathroom. Maybe it was that time I borrowed from the honour-system snack-tray without paying. You know I would have paid that back because that's what honour is all about. Just ask the Klingons. No, I think that perhaps management was envious of my care-free lifestyle. They only wished that they could show up everyday in t-shirts, cut-offs, and sandals. If anyone had problems with me playing Limp Bizkit MP3s in my cubicle, they should have told me. And so what if I never refilled the coffee pot, or that I left month-old burritos in the back of the lunchroom fridge. An IT professional concerns himself with keeping the system clean, not the kitchen... You really need to read all of this on the authors site and note that he has more similar articles. SiteProNews.com | Useful INURL Search Let's use Google as an example. If you wanted to search for a site that has "windows sharepoint" in the URL, in Google's search box, type in the following: In the search results, you will see that only sites that contain the words "windows sharepoint" in the URL will display. In order for the words "windows sharepoint" to appear in these search results, it must be separated with a dash, underscore, period... Reuters.com | Spammers' Scavenging E-Mail Virus Surfaces on Net A new computer virus capable of harvesting millions of e-mail addresses from infected PCs was rapidly spreading across the Internet Monday, security experts said. The infection, known as "Bagle" or "Beagle," appears to be the handiwork of spammers keen to collect a batch of e-mail addresses they can then re-sell to other spam e-mail marketers or keep for their own use. "Bagle" also contains code that could turn an infected computer into a veritable "spamming" machine. Security experts said it is patterned after the recent "Sobig" and "Mimail" outbreaks, which also turned scores of computers into zombie machines that spammers can control remotely to send torrents of get-rich-quick and sex aid messages to other computer users. "It seems perfectly possible that Bagle is yet another worm written by spammers. When they have enough infected computers, they could automatically install invisible e-mail proxy servers on each machine and start spamming through them," said Mikko Hypponen, research manager at Finnish anti-virus firm F-Secure. ...The e-mail infection, or worm, contains a familiar subject line of "Hi" and an executable file attachment identified by ".exe." The body of the e-mail contains random characters. The virus is triggered once a computer user clicks on the attachment, setting in motion an aggressive e-mail harvesting program that scans all documents on the infected computer and throughout the network it is attached to. Computer analysts said most corporate e-mail filters should be able to block the infected e-mail, but that home users were particularly vulnerable. News.com | IBM to Add 15,000 New Jobs ...We are going to hire more in the U.S. than we shift" overseas, MacDonald said in an interview. About 30 percent of the
15,000 new positions, or 4,500 jobs, will be net new hires in
the United States, he said... CNet.com |
Justice Dept.: Microsoft's
'Fallen Short' The U.S. Justice Department on Friday expressed concern that Microsoft has not completely lived up to its agreement to disclose Windows communications protocols, as required by a 2002 antitrust agreement. In an 18-page filing with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, the government said the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program has "fallen short" of fully satisfying the settlement and that "additional work still needs to be done." In that settlement, designed to end seven years of antitrust litigation, Microsoft agreed to disclose each communication protocol used in Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP and to make them available for licensing for a fee. Depending on the application, the fees range from $8 to $950 for each copy sold by the third-party developer, less any volume discounts. The Justice Department has "determined that further improvements need to be made to the licensing program," including simplifying the contracts and developing more straightforward ways to calculate licensing fees, the Friday filing said. The government did acknowledge that "Microsoft has agreed to make additional modifications" to the program to respond to those concerns. Microsoft said in its own statement, filed jointly with the government's, that it "has made full compliance with its obligations under the final judgments a top priority of the company, and the company continues to devote substantial resources to its compliance work." Soon, it will
release a "much shorter" license agreement and make
approximately two dozen protocols available, with a simpler cost
structure, Microsoft said... Commodore.ca | Windows Update Won't? Out of eight servers I attempted to update last with the January 2004 Security Update from windowsupdate.microsoft.com six of them came up with Windows Update has encountered an error and cannot display the requested page: 0x800A138F or 0x800C0008 errors and refused to complete. After more than an hour of working on the issue I found that solution was to change Internet Explorer 6 Certificate settings: TOOLS, OPTIONS, ADVANCED TAB, uncheck "Check for server certificate revocation" TomsHardware.com | Are Memory Timings Still Important? ed. As usual, Toms has a copious amount of information an data on the topic but this graph below is a good summary:
...In most of the disciplines, you can see that it no longer matters as much what memory timings you have as it did only a few years ago, when SDRAM or the first DDR generation were still hot. Or, to put it another way, having faster or slower RAM will not tip the balance in favor of or against the latest AMD and Intel processors. Microsoft.com | Can't Delete a File or a Folder In Windows? I recently had Unix stations copy some files onto a Windows 2003 Server. The problem was that some of those files used Windows restricted file names like "COM1" and "LPT1". After a huge amount of research I found: "If the file name
includes a reserved name (for example, "lpt1") in the Win32 name space,
you may not be able to delete the file. To resolve this issue, use a
non-Win32 program to rename the file. You can use a POSIX tool or any
other tool that uses the appropriate internal syntax to use the file. del \\?\c:\path_to_file\lpt1 For additional information about deleting files with reserved names under Windows NT and Windows 2000, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 120716 How to Remove Files with Reserved Names in Windows For additional information about deleting files with reserved names under Windows XP, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 315226 How to Remove Files with Reserved Names in Windows XP" Commodore.ca | How to Hide the Sharing & Security Tabs in Windows Even users with
RESTRICTED USER rights on their Windows 2000 or XP machines can create
shares on their PC. This is obviously a very bad idea for the vast
majority of companies. Microsoft has Knowledge Base article
300153
which explains how to remove the SECURITY tab (which can be accomplished
via Group Policy if you wish) however, if there is nothing on how to
remove the SHARING tab. Microsoft's "Woody G" was good enough to
dig up a solution. Click
HERE for details Xbox.IGN.com | Will XBox2 Ship in 2005? An interview in the 1/23/2004 issue of Japan's Famitsu magazine with Xbox Japanese chief Yoshihiro Maruyama reveals a few interesting tidbits on the next generation Xbox console. ..."Of course, our plans [with next generation hardware] are moving forward. I'd like to release something in the near future, but if asked if the release will happen next year, I'd say that no, it won't be next year. For the release of our next generation hardware, we'll be watching the movements of our rivals Nintendo and Sony. He continues, "We foresee the next
generation PS2 hardware arriving some time after 2006. Releasing the
next generation In addition to release dates, Maruyama took the opportunity to comment on the size of the Xbox 2. "I've heard much request for a smaller sized system," Maruyama comments. "Before entering Microsoft I felt the same way (laughs)." Regarding a change to smaller sized hardware, he continues "It would be difficult with the current hardware, so it's something that we'd like to do for the next generation hardware."... Commodore.ca | FPSE Usage Analysis Does Not Function Under Windows 2003 According to my MS friend WenJun: "Version 5012 of FrontPage Server Extensions that ships with Windows 2003 is optimized for IIS 6.0. Usage Analysis is not available on this version. Usage analysis uses OWSTimer which has been yanked out of Windows 2003. In other words Usage analysis will only work through the command prompt and not through the admin pages. The command to run usage is: Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\50\Bin\owsadm.exe -o usage -p lm/w3svc/# where #
is the instance number you wish to run usage against. This command can
be scheduled using the windows task scheduler if you want to run it on a
regular basis." RSS News Feed To Technology VIDEO from The FeedRoom.com: These are NOT advertisements; they are streaming video of technology related news stories from primarily the United States. They may change every few hours.
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