Take control with these firefighter strategies
Feature Everything about taking over a failing project is delicate. If you've done your homework your new team will be more likely to help you make the transition
Under the covers of the .Net CLR
Feature Working knowledge of how the CLR works to allow programs written in any language to be packaged into assemblies with the resulting assemblies running on any system supporting CLR
Wednesday
Blog Wednesday 11/09/2002It's here: Nine Eleven. Curiously, if you avoid the TV and the papers, it seems much like business as normal. There's a moment's silence at the beginning of the show, but that's...
Servicer takes sweat out of storage
News Technica promises to save storage costs while leaving disks on user sites -- by a remote storage management service
Rupert Goodwins' San Jose Diary from IDF
Comment A man may not be able to fly, but he can Segway, and it's a life-changing experience...
Netscape and Mozilla leak Web surfing data
News A newly publicised flaw in Mozilla-based Web browsers allows servers to discover where visitors go after they leave the site
News Schmooze: Levi's hi-tech posing pouch
Comment Levi's eradicated intimate irradiation, pundits slapped proprietary software, and China got off Google's back.
IDF: a walk on the wild side
News If you think PC design is dull and boring, check out these wacky designs from the Intel Develop Forum.
KPN buys UK leg of KPNQwest
News The dust is settling around the failed networking giant, and another piece of the joint venture has ended up with the Dutch parent company
Work together, IM giants told
News Instant messaging use is growing in offices and homes around the world, and the big players are being told by a standards board to work together
First 'smiley' found
News The rediscovery of the first use of the :-) combination of characters to denote a joke reveals that the emoticon is approaching its 20th birthday
Email is key to file-swap fight
News Kazaa and Morpheus executives are having their own words turned against them - internal emails are being used by the RIAA in a file-swapping lawsuit
SAGE certifications: By sysadmins for sysadmins
News SAGE's aggressive marketing tactics may overshadow its certifications, but don't look past these admin certs too quickly. Learn what SAGE certifications cover and why Erik Eckel thinks that they...
Government body says developing countries need open source
News Proprietary software is too expensive, many shrink-wrap licences should be considered void, and reverse engineering of software is essential to help relieve poverty, a commission claims
Why can't my software just get along?
Comment Ian Fried: When you log on, you shouldn't have to become embroiled in a battle over streaming media players. They all work fine so why can't they just play everything?
Adobe promotes OS X advantage over Quark
News The market leader in the page-layout software market has yet to support Apple's OS X, giving rival Adobe a chance to gain some ground
Anti-spam lists bar Yahoo! stores
News Another block-list adds Yahoo! to its anti-spam crusade, amid complaints that the site is lax in throwing spammers offline
Philips DVDRW228
Review With its easy setup, fast write speeds and good software bundle, the Philips DVDRW228 is a good buy for digital video enthusiasts.
AMD delays Hammer for desktops
News The chip maker delays its next-generation processor by nearly a quarter. The move may narrow Hammer's advantage over Intel's Pentium 4
Microsoft warns of thieving Word docs
News A security bug could let a malicious Word document hijack any file on a user's PC
IDF: Where no chip has gone before
News Star Trek's William Shatner was a featured speaker for Intel's peek at its future. Its research includes multi-gate transistors, silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes

