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Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls

...never know when you're going to come under attack. Given some downtime, you could run a full-scale security audit on your servers. With... Read more

20 May, 2012 by Jack Wallen
PRTG Network Monitor Free 12.2.1.1923

PRTG Network Monitor Free 12.2.1.1923

...solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up or downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, fail over clustering, in-depth... Read more

23 May, 2012
Easeus Partition Master Professional 9.1.1

Easeus Partition Master Professional 9.1.1

...it doesnt require a reboot when extending NTFS partition to minimize computer downtime. The second feature is useful when you want to copy partition or... Read more

22 May, 2012
EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1.1

EaseUS Partition Master Home Edition 9.1.1

...doesn't require a reboot when extending NTFS partition to minimize computer downtime. New feature: Upgrade system disk to a bigger one with one-click... Read more

22 May, 2012
Easeus Partition Master Server Edition 9.1.1

Easeus Partition Master Server Edition 9.1.1

...doesnt require a reboot when extending NTFS partition to minimize the computer downtime. The second feature is useful when you want to copy partition or... Read more

22 May, 2012
DEKSI Network Monitor 9.1

DEKSI Network Monitor 9.1

...IT Management staff to be pro-active in responding to any possible downtime. DEKSI Network Monitor periodically polls devices a the network map and sends... Read more

18 May, 2012
Apple Remote Desktop Client 3.5.3

Apple Remote Desktop Client 3.5.3

...both wired and wireless networks. With Apple Remote Desktop you can reduce downtime and let people be more productive Read more

9 May, 2012
NetGong 7.8 build 304

NetGong 7.8 build 304

...NetGong for monitoring critical e-mail and Web servers. Avoid costly network downtime by using NetGong as your first line of defense. NetGong continually probes... Read more

5 March, 2012

Be Broadband revamps network for IPv6

...across from the existing network, the result being a small amount of downtime to the broadband service, and a change to everyone's IP addresses... Read more

7 October, 2011 by Ben Woods
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Workstation 11

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Workstation 11

...help to protect the intellectual property that resides on individual workstations. Minimize downtime and improve productivity Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 takes a 'snapshot' of the... Read more

26 August, 2011
Apple Remote Desktop Admin 3.5.1

Apple Remote Desktop Admin 3.5.1

...both wired and wireless networks. With Apple Remote Desktop you can reduce downtime and let people be more productive Read more

22 August, 2011

AWS cloud accidentally deletes customer data

...Elastic Block Storage (EBS) on Wednesday, meaning some customers are still having downtime three days after the initial problem. AWS's rentable computers — known as... Read more

10 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

O2 launches SME broadband services

...also provides customers with a broadband dongle to help them through any downtime. In April, BT announced it wanted to extend the reach of its... Read more

9 May, 2011 by Ben Woods

AWS service interruptions raise doubts over reliability

...Amazon Web Services' (AWS) US east coast region.AWS service interruptions caused downtime on Reddit. Credit: ZDNet UK The problems began with increased latencies in... Read more

18 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

Skype outage caused by buggy software

...Calling (GVC) features were used to deploy new supernodes and this caused downtime in GVC, which was restored by 24 December. In light of the... Read more

30 December, 2010 by Jack Clark

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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Thomas Gellhaus

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

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Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

do You know that? it can install 4G Ram. So i buy 4g and install It work! I can run call of duty 4,6,7 [Modern war... 1,2,3] Call of duty 1 was...

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itsajob

2. Bad idea. Making up patch cables loses you your commission from the cable supplier. 3. If you tidy up, other people can understand where the...

2 days ago by itsajob on Ten IT jobs to save up for those rare lulls
Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

3 days ago by Paul Smyth via Facebook on Firefox rapid release improves Fedora Linux
UnderINK

I agree with the previous commenter wholeheartedly. I couldn't say it better myself. This is very 'Big Brother'. And while I agree with protecting...

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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