Auditors advise a bank's CIO to add an "authorization warning" that will show up on all PCs before log-on, and this pilot fish is tasked to wh...

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SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- I've owned six portable USB hard drives over the past 10 years, and all six of them have failed unrecoverably. Is it jus...

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The real mover behind the ill-fated "Vista Capable PC" scheme may be Intel, not Microsoft, recent emails in the Vista "junk PC" lawsuit reveal. A ...

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Yes, No, No ... Pilot fish gets an opportunity for a week of training, room and board paid for by the training company. All he needs is money...

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It's IT Blogwatch: in which we look at the first reviews of Apple's latest big cat: Mac OS 10.5. Not to mention how to walk and/or drive in Bos...

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THIS is your idea of comfort food? (Richi, I don't think this is working as well as it does for some people...) ...

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Well, not really, I just wanted to see if I could get six^W seven^W eight^W nine pages of comments on a post. Not to mention the odd death th...

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My boss just said we're moving to Macs. I don't know if he was serious, but it might really happen -- he's a bona-fide, born-again Mac zealot, after decades of using real computers (he even had his own, successful Windows-centric ...

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When you are buying a product for your network, be it for security or basic infrastructure, do you prefer an appliance or software that you ca...

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Intermittent noise from this PC's power supply gets a little louder every day, says the pilot fish in the cubicle next door. "Our resident ha...

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