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  • Apple director Jerome York passes away

    It's been a privilege to know and work with Jerry, and I'm going to miss him a lot.Born in 1938, York studied as an engineer. Jerome York, a member of Apple's board of directors, has passed away. York had been hospitalised after suffering a brain…
    19 March 2010
    Tags: York • Steve • Joined • Jobs • Directors • Board

  • Bank forensic app searches customer PCs for malware

    Security vendor Trusteer's latest product will allow banks to remotely investigate their customers' computers if it is suspected the PC has been hacked.The service, called Flashlight, is designed to enable banks security experts to quickly…
    16 March 2010
    Tags: Send • Programs • Institutions • Banks • Banking • Bank

  • Apple iPhone app fine print hurts developers

    So if Apple botches an update, accidentally kills your app, or leaks your entire customer list to a competitor, the Agreement tries to cap you at the cost of a nice dinner for one in Cupertino," said EFF senior IP attorney Fred von Lohmann.EFF…
    09 March 2010
    Tags: Licence • Kill • Disclosed • Developer • Contract • App

  • Open sourcing data centre design

    Those announcements are forthcoming, and when they [are made], I think you will get a sense of the type of sea-change this effort could potentially have.The group was founded by Dave Ohara, a former engineer with Hewlett-Packard, Apple and…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Questions • Pool • Innovation • Engineering • Data Center • Cooling

  • Google reveals Chrome OS security details

    Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users from malware and other threats, a Google engineer said at the RSA Conference. Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in…
    08 March 2010
    Tags: Protect • Netbook • Malware • Host • Engineer • Chrome

  • FBI: Hackers change source code to spy on firms

    We are bleeding data, intellectual property, information, source code, bit by bit, and in some cases terabyte by terabyte.Researchers investigating the Google attack - thought to have affected at least 100 companies including Intel, Adobe and…
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Targeted • Intellectual Property • Hackers • Federal • Agencies

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    It could be a rogue employee seeking revenge - like the software engineer who hacked into an Australian water treatment plant's SCADA system in 1991, releasing 264,000 gallons of raw sewage.Or it could be an external attacker who gains entry into…
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • Will the cloud take your IT job?

    He or she will be a systems engineer, akin to a physician-someone doing assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of highly sophisticated software agglomerations. Tomorrow's sysadmin will be more like a physician, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden.
    11 March 2010
    Tags: Skills • Harder • Developments • Centralised • Car • Article

  • Google Go gets the thumbs up from developers

    At this point, Go isn't mature enough for critical applications, but it is stable enough for "simple web servers, text processing and other such things," said Rob Pike, a Google software engineer who is one of the leaders of the Go project, via…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Stage • Solve • Programming • Languages • Language • Improving

  • Cloud, virtualisation: Wasting IT resources

    If you're spending a couple of thousand dollars per spindle, that adds up pretty fast.You can get around either storage I/O or resource limits by throwing hardware at them, but that's not either an elegant or a cost-effective solution, according…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Virtual Machines • Gigabit Ethernet • Cloud Computing • Bus • Amazon • Adopting

  • Windows 7 tool can turn laptop into rogue Wi-Fi access point for hackers

    Microsoft Windows 7 contains software that can turn a laptop into a rogue Wi-Fi access point that masks the entry of hackers onto the corporate network, according to an engineer. Microsoft Windows 7 contains software that can turn a laptop into a…
    23 February 2010
    Tags: Rogue • Hackers • Engineer • Ap • Agent • Access Point

  • Inside HP's first wind-powered data centre

    Server cabinets are locked, and the keys are only released if the particular engineer has permission encoded on an access card. The north-east of England is a chilly, forbidding place but HP is tapping into the elements by installing what it claims…
    10 February 2010
    Tags: North • Installing • Facility • Facilities • Data Centres • Air

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How-Tos

  • How to protect yourself from Windows 7 hacks

    When triggered, the flaw results in an infinite loop which renders the computer useless.Tyler Reguly, Lead Security Research Engineer with nCircle, explains "Exploitation of this vulnerability occurs when a user attempts to browse to Windows Share…
    13 November 2009
    Tags: Smb • Addressed • Windows Xp • Exploit • Attackers • Bulletins

  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    That's where intelligent caching comes into play," says Crosland.Jason Mayes, a senior engineer at XMOS, says that working with Akamai Technologies played a major role in alleviating pressure when XMOS started offering online videos.
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Downtime • San Francisco • Advance • Mechanisms • Programming • Viewed

  • How to manage multivendor virtualisation

    But virtualisation has never been a perfect world, and it's even less so now that companies are implementing multiple vendors' virtualisation software.As a network engineer with the Florida healthcare organisation Health First, Allison is charged…
    14 October 2009
    Tags: Virtual Machine • Infrastructures • Hypervisor • Virtual Machines • Virtualization • Server Virtualisation

  • How to avoid redundancy

    When I first started, I found there was a shortage of server load-balancing expertise," says Colt Mercer, a network engineer at Citigroup. I once had to project plan for a PBX upgrade, and I learned an immense amount about how they work," says…
    08 September 2009
    Tags: Skills • Employee • Water • Budgets • Economic • Outsourcing

  • Predict Wi-Fi performance and plan your wireless LAN

    While these tools will usually produce very pretty output (including bills of material and other information for the installers), showing exactly where APs should be placed, it is fair to ask how accurate this radio simulation really is.I've found…
    19 September 2008
    Tags: Radio • Coverage • Elements • Trial • Advance • Craig

  • Take a new tack for better IT

    Decide that this is the new way we want to deliver and support applications, then try it on a new application," says Michael Morris, a network engineer for a $3 billion high-tech company. Four tactics to improve IT and get better app performance.
    20 June 2008
    Tags: App • American • Request • Joanne Cummings • Upfront • Generates

Reviews

  • Pro Tools remains the first choice for professional audio

    Even if you create using another program, it might be worth transferring the audio over to save the expense of a pro engineer's time converting it. Almost since its inception, Pro Tools's outstanding mixing board mimicry has made it the pro's…
    03 September 2009
    Tags: Studio • Audio • Recording • Editing • Plugin • Highend

  • Intel NAS Performance Toolkit review

    Iometer and IOzone are great tools for testing storage devices, but they have one significant drawback: they dive deep into the minutiae of the block storage and file systems they measure and, thus, yield results that might as well be written in…
    20 May 2009
    Tags: Engineer • File System • Production • Sort • Actions • Workstations

  • Billion BiPAC 7402GX review

    If the Billion BiPAC 7402GX was being used remotely by a home worker, the remote access feature can be enabled for set timed period to allow an engineer to examine and rest the device.PerformanceThe Billion BiPAC 7402GX's booting/connection speed…
    11 November 2008
    Tags: Branch • Cover • Setup • Throughput • Vpn • Business Advisor

  • Billion BiPAC 7402GX router

    If the unit was being used remotely by a home worker, the remote access feature can be enabled for set timed period to allow an engineer to examine and rest the device.Performance Booting/connection speed was slow (around 1 minute 50 seconds…
    11 July 2008
    Tags: Failover • Status • Cover • Setup • Throughput • Vpn

  • Tiscali TV review

    Tiscali TV review Carrie-Ann Skinner and Rosemary Haworth review,reviews The Tiscali TV service must be installed by an engineer for a one-off payment of £30, but is a great option if you intend to watch a lot of on-demand TV.
    11 July 2008
    Tags: Hd • Broadband • Channels • Movies • Telephone • Subscription

  • BT Vision review

    This includes content from 4oD.There's a one-off connection fee of £30 (it costs £60 to have an engineer install it for you). BT Vision combines Freeview content with TV programmes, films and music, and can be 'rented' by BT Total Broadband users.
    10 July 2008
    Tags: Music • Bt • Broadband • Entertainment • Movies • Vision

White Papers

  • An overview of social engineering

    Most employees are unaware that they have been manipulated.The sign of a truly successful social engineer is that they receive information without raising any suspicion as to what they are doing, quietly slipping away once they have the…
    11 May 2009
    Tags: Financial Services • Actions • Confidence • Social Engineering • Fashioned

  • Laying The Groundwork For IP Telephony

    Testing will help to confirm and validate this need.This critical first step is conducted by a Network Engineer and will determine will what kind of traffic patterns occur throughout the day; peak utilization times might warrant increased amounts…
    29 May 2007
    Tags: Assessment • Carry • Ip Telephony • Studied • Network Engineer

  • Adaptive Infrastructure with a Twist

    Installation is also quite complex, so Scalent sends an engineer to do the initial build of the infrastructure, including assistance in building the initial server personas.A server persona is a server built for a certain task, replete with…
    23 March 2007
    Tags: Controller • Agent • Esx • Proliant • Handled • Nfs

  • Extending Your Management Reach to Remote Users

    To ensure that the CD does get deployed, they'll often fly out an engineer with the to the site or hire a local contractor to implement the deployment.Regardless of the option they choose, these methods delay vulnerability remediation, breed…
    20 February 2007
    Tags: Productivity • Connections • Gateway • Organizations • Deployment • Holes

  • Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup

    Please consult your documentation or a qualified Pre-Sales Engineer for individual assistance. Please consult your documentation or a qualified Pre-Sales Engineer for individual assistance.The WorkGroup Edition of BakBone NetVault is integrated…
    23 January 2007
    Tags: End Users • Concepts • Engineer • Configure • Documentation • Expansion

  • Manifesting Your Best—Entrusting to Experts the Rest

    This white paper addresses the needs of application software companies whose products, systems, and services depend heavily or entirely on software that they may not be equipped or qualified to optimally engineer.
    12 January 2007
    Tags: Functions • Capital • Engineer • Experts • Software Companies • Partnering

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