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SysAdmins Weigh In With New Survey
Information regarding who's doing what is very popular; you can look at the abundance of news outlets, the existence of Twitter, or any number of other things as proof. And now, for system administrators (and system administrators' bosses), the results of a new survey should provide insight into the norm.
Date: 2009-12-15
Addressing The Majority Of Concerns With Cloud Computing
Every day I read numerous articles that are negative towards cloud computing. I can sum them up with the following bullets: • The cloud is insecure • Cloud computing is immature• Cloud is nothing new. We have been doing this for years.
Date: 2009-12-10
What To Look For In The SharePoint 2010 Upgrade
ComputerWorld has just dropped a ton of information concerning the Microsoft SharePoint 2010 beta. For those who have been on the fence as to whether or not SharePoint 2010 would be worth the upgrade, your answer can be found here. Let's go through the changes found in SharePoint 2010.
Date: 2009-11-24
Discover SharePoint for a month with Rackspace
Rackspace Hosting SharePoint Expert, Jeff DeVerter, shares his thoughts on the features and capabilities that make SharePoint both a powerful force and a confusing application.
Date: 2009-11-23
Compiling Scala With Ant For Ralio Access
I'm working on a Railo project that is using some Scala code for part of the system and I'm using Ant to drive the build process. The Scala website has a lot of tools and documentation and you can read about compiling Scala with Ant for the basics of how to get started.
Date: 2009-11-12
How To Correctly Fix And Patch Site Architecture
In the past few months all of the search engines, but especially Google have released or started supporting new ways of fixing site architecture issues. However IMHO these are band-aid solutions for bad site architecture, and not something you should rely on ... at all.
Date: 2009-10-29
Symantec Encouraging Users To Install Patches ASAP
Says to Take Advantage of Biggest Patch Tuesday Yet. Microsoft's Patch Tuesday for this week has been the largest ever from the company. 13 security bulletins addressing 34 vulnerabilities were released. 22 of these vulnerabilities were considered critical.
Date: 2009-10-15
How To Display Exceptions Through Propagation
There are many important things to remember to catch an exception. For instance one must use catch or finally to catch the thrown exceptions in try block.Also remember that try will never work without either a catch or finally.
Date: 2009-10-01
Helpful Java Q&A
If You are appearing for any technical job's interview specially for software and system development you must know the language Java it is considered as the strongest language present in recent times.To make you aware of Java Util class and Thread class there are few frequently asked questions just go through..
Date: 2009-09-17
New Sony Computers Now Come With Chrome Installed
Sony and Google would like to confirm that, "it's not what you know, but who you know" is alive and well. At least, that's the official basis for Sony agreeing to make Google's Chrome the default browser in all Vaio notebooks sold in the US.
Date: 2009-09-02
Understanding And Implementing JAVA String Methods
Strings are very important part of any programming language. Same is the case with Java.There are so many String methods in String class and it will become difficult to explain all of them. I am mainly focusing on some methods which are worthful to beginners. I will also explain some basics about Strings here which makes Strings easy to understand. So, lets begin.
Date: 2009-08-20
Understanding A Denial Of Service Attack
I heard on the news today that my favorite social network, Twitter, is being plagued by what they called a "denial of service attack". What on Earth is that? They're forced to not actually get service and it's an attack? I mean, I've been to restaurants where I experience a denial of service, but how can something like that affect Twitter or Facebook or whatever?
Date: 2009-08-07
Evolving Business And IT Rules To Match New Demand
Michael Cote of Redmonk had a nice piece on over on his People over Process blog. He made a series of great points about the risk of business and IT people not being aligned - risks to the business and to IT.
Date: 2009-07-23
Google To Enter The OS Market For Netbooks
Google certainly doesn't rest on its laurels, that's for sure. They are, first and foremost a search engine, but the success of their search business has fathered so many products that aren't search related at all it's amazing at times. Of course, now that everything is losing its beta status Google needs to get something else in the pipeline that will raise an eyebrow or two.
Date: 2009-07-08
Building And Developing Railo For Testing
As of today, you can easily build your very own version of Railo from the latest source code in Subversion! This blog post will take you through all the steps necessary to download, build and deploy a new copy of Railo for your own testing, experimentation and general edification.entralizing the status and performance data and automating event log management, ELM provides a single seat View of distributed environments for prompt analysis and problem resolution.
Date: 2009-06-25
Server Monitoring and Event Log Management Solutions from TNT Software
ELM Enterprise Manager is a comprehensive system monitoring, alerting and reporting solution supporting Windows systems and network devices. Centralizing the status and performance data and automating event log management, ELM provides a single seat View of distributed environments for prompt analysis and problem resolution.
Date: 2009-06-17
The Truth About Technical Accessibility
This has been stewing for a while. Just brimming under the surface. An brewing anger towards companies that do not understand accessibility, nor the commitment that is required to be accessible, but will give it a light treatment simply as a sales tactic. Basically, I've had it. I'm mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.
Date: 2009-06-11
Q&A Site For System Administrators Gaining Momentum
System administrators now have a new resource to turn to whenever they run into a problem. A site called Server Fault has been launched in public beta, and it's well-populated with people who can answer the sorts of questions that pop up in sys admins' professional lives.
Date: 2009-05-28
Free Trial - hosted Microsoft Exchange from Rackspace
When it comes to email, downtime is something you simply can't accept. And you really can't afford to spend any more time in managing, maintaining and supporting your email application either. It's time to free up your resources and let the experts take care of your business email needs.
Date: 2009-05-20
Windows 7: Fast Enough For You?
The recent release candidate of Windows 7 is still the buzz. If you're like me, one thing that you're very concerned about in a new operating system is speed. Is the thing going to be fast enough? In a recently-released report, PC World shared the results of their speed test of Windows 7.
Date: 2009-05-07
Is The Google Marriage Great For Linux?
It has been quite a while now that stories of Google's Linux supported desktop have been doing rounds over the technology news websites across the world. This has been an interesting move by Google. From providing the support for Google gadgets on Linux to now providing an entire Google desktop for Linux users!
Date: 2009-04-21
System Administrators Still Not Crazy About SSDs
The average system administrator is probably quite used to hearing about all sorts of great technologies he should embrace. This week, let's try something new and instead talk about one he (maybe) shouldn't: solid-state drives.
Date: 2009-04-09
Installing An Enhanced Wiki And Issue Tracking System
Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects that works very well with Subversion. If you need to set it up, this short guide will show you how to do that with little effort.
Date: 2009-03-19
Red Hat Could Be Facing Suit For JBoss
I've previously argued that IP indemnification should be as much a part of the software selling process as companies guaranteeing that babies were not harmed in producing their products. I was later informed that US law can hold both vendors and users of infringing products liable.
Date: 2009-03-05
Experimenting With Amazon Google Hacks
Sometimes it is not about what you can find, but what you can't find that makes Google more interesting. In the highly competitive world we live it, here are some Google hacks for Amazon that will let you know what is not currently being carried by Amazon.
Date: 2009-02-12
Introducing Rackspace Cloud Hosting
Minimize your expenses for hosting your sites, applications, files and email. Pay only for what you use. Grow as you need to without worrying about managing hardware. And do it for a lot less than what you are doing right now.
Date: 2009-02-06
Recession-Proof Email with Mailtrust
Succeed in challenging times with the right processes, tools, and technology. For nearly a decade, Mailtrust has provided thousands of businesses just like you with cost-effective email hosting solutions.
Date: 2009-01-26
Cost-Cutter Insider Tips for Your Business
Succeed in challenging with the right processes, tools, and technology. For nearly a decade, Mailtrust has provided thousands of business just like you with cost-effective email hosting solutions.
Date: 2009-01-23
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