Just read this on Slashdot and couldn’t help myself (it works in every field where brains not mass are a factor):
Herding cats is hard because you are using the wrong management technique. You herd cattle (and sheep and goats and pigs etc.), you do *not* herd cats. Cats, you put them in the general area […]
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Programming or Not: Don’t Think of Herding Cats
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Why Linux is Often the Answer for Small Businesses
When it comes to installing a local network serving a small office, then software-hardware compatibility is quite important. Shows up that protective corporate barriers result in questionable products, with a vast amount of nonsense embedded. These are not what you want for your small business office. Yes, ads are nice and sounds cool to be […]
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DieHard Software for your Small Business PCs
As promised yesterday, here I come with an application that will do wonders for you at the office. Reasons why you should download and install DieHard Software:
1. gaining more stability, less crashes, less annoyance;
2. putting the parasites off your machine: even if you live with a false sense of security, I can tell that quite […]
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What 2007 Brings to Server-based Services
Was about time I get to write a blog… All these months we had to build a ‘pyramid’ of coding, to mix the e-commerce engine camel with a one-of-a-kind auction engine ostrich, and so on and so forth…
But all that is water under the bridge, to cite Faye, and I’m happily back in the blogging […]
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Insert a Plus and Ditch Spammers
Spam comes to you through various channels:
-harvesters stealing email address books from your PC when you—or friends sharing mails with you—are visiting suspect websites;
-trojans and worms pestering your own PC, or other PCs where your email address is copied for legit reasons;
-various combinations of the above two basic methods.
The bottom line with junk mail is […]
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PDF Security: Silent Acrobat Exploits
Silent hacking sounds like a new concept, so new that seldom PDF users are aware of it. Would you think at security exploits while staring at a for-print document that a close friend, a business partner or a colleague was sending you? Actually I didn’t—in spite of my little security paranoia with Nigerian based phishers […]
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Yes, you can have your own biz web site
Recent surveys indicate how ardently small business owners look to deploy web sites. Porting daily chores to web based applications, besides simple presentations, advertising, or even e-commerce. But first a blink at the results (some of):
The survey sought to understand the challenges that small business owners face marketing their businesses online. Revealing highlights of the […]
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Google’s Web Word Processor: Writely
Google-owned Writely just launched open to public mass registrations. It’s the on-demand version of the very popular desktop based word processors by Microsoft (MS Word), Corel (Word Perfect) and OpenOffice.org.
…and i was keeping this post in the drafts shelf for couple weeks; presumably I wanted to write more blahs ’bout it, but time proved way […]
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Firewalls, Anti-virus or Just IPtables?
Personal hygiene defends from bugs, or better said proper, complete and sustained hygiene as a practice gives best results in keeping bugs away. From our body to the house habitat, then out on the streets, and so on and so forth. It’s a chore that runs from combating dust mites to clearing airports. And it […]
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Before Blaming the Server
Users are most often misled by proprietary software false security claims —actually marketing stunts— to believe that they’re having some ‘levels’ of security on their Windows desktop computers. From this error on, users begin to assume that who else than servers should get the blame for malware and junk.
It would be hard for a professional […]
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