Sounds like something that is too good to be true, understanding the benefits of running a cooler system. Water chilled MacBooks would be a serious boon to the user, assuming it can be done effectively. I think that most people will agree that adding water to anything other than a tower PC is begging for [...]

XP makes it easy to restore your computer by letting you to turn back the clock to a specific point in time. XP’s System Restore creates restore points, which are essentially snapshots of your system files at a specific point in time. If a problem arises, you can use System Restore to roll your computer [...]

Learn how both new and established companies are using Google Apps to curb costs amid rapid expansion. Start-up IT services provider Counterpoint Consulting and office products distributor Indoff, which has been in business for thirty years, operate in very different industries, but the two rapidly growing organizations share the need to provide employees with cost-effective yet [...]

At this point, you are ready to run Sysprep. This may sound like a daunting task but it actually takes less than a minute to run. From the command prompt, change to the Sysprep directory. The xml file you created earlier will already be in the directory. From the command prompt, run the following command: sysprep /generalize [...]

I am actually listening to some tunes via the latest release as I type this. Thanks to me already having it downloaded, I was able to update it easily from the Help menu and the rest as they say, is history. Outside of some drastic speed improvements, the main thing I noticed was missing was [...]

Software restriction policies let administrators control what types of software users can run on their computers. Doing so protects computers against malicious software and potential conflicts. Software restriction policy can be implemented through Group Policy, making it easy to apply to multiple computers. You can also implement software restriction policy on a standalone computer through [...]

I really want to say that I am ready to be done with this concept, but maybe, just maybe, gOS can do something with the “instant on” operating system that others have not. Not trying to be a downer here, but honestly it strikes me as total waste of time for gOS when this has already [...]

Explore how Nokia’s Intrusion Prevention provides the flexibility to interact with Nokia Firewall, providing the most effective strategy for threat mitigation, both at the perimeter and deep within the core. Firewalls provide protection between the external networks and internal networks by blocking potentially malicious traffic from entering the internal network infrastructure. However, inherently firewalls need to [...]

As the not all that shocking news of Pownce being put down to rest comes in, it is still comical to see posts like this making their way up to the surface. In reality, it is a good post. Nothing wrong with it at all. The only thing to consider is in the article, ideas [...]

Not that you’d actually want to do it (or at least I don’t think I would), but you have to admit it’s pretty cool that you can now run Linux on the iPhone. It’s really basic so far, but no doubt it will get better and have more and more hardware/feature support. Maybe a dual-boot [...]

There are a number of services available with Windows Vista. The services you see will of course depend on what you have installed. Some of the services are installed be default during setup and others are optional. Those services not installed by default can be added at a later date. The steps below describe how to [...]

Explore the internal and external regulatory challenges now faced by organizations, the scope of these challenges, and four key ways in which they can be addressed through better business processes and automation. This paper discusses the challenges faced by organizations of all sizes – across all industries – and presents a Security as a Service (SaaS) [...]

Vista has overall, been a mixed bag of learning experiences for Microsoft I think. Certainly a Windows release that I myself never wasted much time with, others have opted to remain with XP in hopes that Windows 7 will prove to be the OS that many had hoped to see from Vista. While I am certainly [...]

One has to wonder - is Chrome really that big of a threat to the well entrenched Firefox browser? At this stage, perhaps not. But given the right kind of promotion for those who are more interested in speed over how many add-ons can be used with the browser, I see Chrome being in a [...]

Many people have come to view meetings as time-wasters, and for good reason. Free food and beverages are often the only things that draw people to meetings and the only things they actually look forward to. Why have people come to view meetings as such time-wasters during their day? Think back to some of the more [...]

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There are a number of tools and technologies available for deploying Windows Vista. Administrations can use these tools and technologies to deploy Windows Vista is a variety of different environments. Some of the deployment tools and technologies for Windows Vista are summarized below. Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM) lets you create answer files (Unattend.xml) and network [...]

This report’s goal is to help IT organizations develop the ability to minimize the occurrence of application performance issues and to both identify and quickly resolve those issues when they do occur. This report analyzes each of the four components of application delivery (planning, network and application optimization, management and control), discusses some of the key [...]

As the holidays approach, many of you might find that you are in a financial position where running out and buying friends and family a bunch of cool new stuff is just not on the list of possibilities this year. For others, it is a matter of feeling like you are doing something practical. In the [...]

While at Tech Ed EMEA IT Pro 2008 in Barcelona, Richard and I talk to John Rodriguez, a Premier Field Engineer focused on Exchange Server. John walks through the strategies and tactics for troubleshooting problems with Microsoft Exchange Server. John Rodriguez (johnro) is a Senior Premier Field Engineer, a role which has allowed him to help [...]