The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men, or, how I Learned to Stop Worrying and use Surge Protection by Mike Bryant
'The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry...' Thus the paraphrase goes of the words of the great Scottish poet Robert Burns. These words ring very true to me this morning. You see, my software company has leased a server for almost three years now, at a hefty monthly fee. ... Now, I know better than to leave any piece of electronic equipment unprotected. ... Where's the 'Tech Tip', you might wonder. ... I'll have to pay for that leased server one more month maybe, and this time I will make sure that there are redundant surge protections in place.

Computing the Future by Charles Stone
It appears that the U.S. Supreme Court has come down with a ruling concerning online file-sharing and who is to have control and thus many billions of dollars. Don't you feel a swell of confidence in the fact that a decision on the highest of high-tech questions has been made by nine people who... The current mass storage devices, hard, floppy and optical disk drives or magnetic tapes are electro-mechanical and thus extremely slow when compared to the electronic speed of solid-state devices. ... An electronic mentor who will always be at hand to answer your questions and help with your...

Lose a Laptop or PDA? You Get Your Stuff Back with Property ID Asset Tags by Mike Valentine
You've finally done it, you left your laptop at the coffee shop, your cell phone at the supermarket or your PDA on the counter at the office supply store. Maybe you forgot to pick up your iPod from the ATM, where you put it down to answer your cell phone during a banking transaction. ... http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2004-06-09-baig_x.htm The television stations had a 75% success rate in getting their "lost" items reported and turned in, while columnist Baig got back 4 of 6 purposely "lost" items (two thirds) in his experiment.

Server Consolidation - What They do not Want You to Know! by Wes Tafoya
How to Reduce Costs & Increase Productivity Do you have too many servers? Many companies realize that they have too many servers or maybe they need to upgrade to the latest version of SQL Server. They know they are spending too much money on maintenance and equipment. ... I will try to convey what is happening in the tech community, who is at fault, who is trying to make a positive change and what you can do. ... Remember the speeds these have not only are unbelievable, but the way it gets that data from the server is also very high tech.

Obsolete Is A Dirty Word (Intel Pentium 64 Bit Microchip) by Rick David
Get ready everyone, home computers are about to set new LAN speed records! The Intel 64-bit microchip will soon be powering the new line of Pentium 4 computers. This long awaited sizzling fast release will be heading to store shelves across America just in time for the new blazing fast Windows... 1 being: "I'm in electronic nirvana, I waited to buy, I was patient and did not up-grade pre-maturely, and now the technology gods have rewarded my computer buying diligence, bestowing upon me a new Intel 64-bit processor, operating system and software as soon as they come out!!" And 10 being:...

CTRL + ALT + DEL, The $100 Handcranked Computer by Shonika Proctor
U.S. + computers + helping developing nations + big opportunity = No Microsoft. Now how could that equation possibly be? Try Negroponte who is in the news again with his One Laptop Per Child Non-Profit that is going to help decrease the Digital Divide between first and third world nations. ... Now if the manufactures of computers (and other personal electronic devices like cell phones, pda’s etc.) were required to take the old one back as the EU is suggesting, there would immediately be a full stock of products to pick from.

Don't Hate Me Because I am e-Beautiful: To E-Learn or Not to E-Learn by Julio Quintana
About a week ago I heard a comment from a senior manager that again reminded me of one of the challenges we face in the training field. He stated that he did not believe in e-learning, especially for salespeople. The comment did not surprise me. I have heard it from many others in his position. ... Feldman deals with the common problem of keeping his help desk and tech support employees knowledgeable. ... E-Learning, as defined in A Vision of E-Learning for America’s Workforce is “…instructional content or learning experiences delivered or enabled by electronic technology”.

Meta Data – In The Arena of Commerce by Marilee Veniegas
In the annals of history, mythology and fiction someone has always been assigned the arduous task of gatekeeper of information. In ancient Greece, sage sibyls like the Oracle of Delphi, Pythia veiled her revelations to those seeking the god, Apollo's favor. ... Even your financial security is in jeopardy if your broker or financial planner is careless with the electronic files kept in their firm’s database. ... - - - - - - - - - - End Notes: 1.) definition from Dictionary.com 2.) Michael Silver, "Microsoft Office metadata: What you don't see can hurt you," Tech Republic, 4 March 2003...

Nintendo Wii - Redefining an Industry by Jennifer Schommer
Nintendo’s latest home console system was released in North America on November 19th 2006. Nintendo’s goal seems to focus on casual games which entertain a broad demographic of gamers and non-gamers. Nintendo’s product is the cheapest new generation home console system on the market, retailing... Wii Sports was a great tech-demo but each game within the bundle could be fleshed out into a stand along product. ... Publishers like Ubisoft, Electronic Arts, Take-Two, THQ, Konami, and Square Enix are a few hot publishers that produce many first-class games each year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) by Smita Mathur
The IT professionals generally face the most challenging roles in the decision making jobs. In the networking field many Microsoft Operating System Software are implemented through the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer certification (MCSE) on the desktop and server. ... The Tech MCSE Pack contains following series of courses for the MCSE certification. ... For electronic business solutions, the MCSE course help in learning to design and implement the infrastructure Therefore the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) is the most popular certification course in the world.