Networking

No doubt they're breathing a big sigh of relief at Microsoft right now, after the world has had a first look at the Google Chrome operating system. Chrome represents absolutely no threat to Windows for the foreseeable future, just at a time when Microsoft is vulnerable.

This big utility company has staff scattered over a wide area, and that means lots of small offices and field teams. But when network traffic between two of the offices gets painfully slow, IT is quick to respond -- sort of.

This IT shop is replacing its two print servers with a single new machine, which requires writing a script that makes changes to every PC in the company that prints. And that mostly works -- but there's still one PC left to find.

I often tell people wireless is both a job and a hobby.  Like any hobby, one aspect I really enjoy is reaching out to others with the same interest to share information, debate, and learn from each other.   In this post, I want to highlight two different ways to find wireless users on Twitter: by using the #WirelessWednesday hashtag and through TweepML. 

Up until now, Google's Voice service has been a bit of a piecemeal apparatus.  You've needed regular land lines, a mobile number or another VOIP service for it to work.  Not anymore...

Let's face it, most backup administrators are typically under paid, under appreciated, and only become important in the eyes of upper management when things go wrong.

My fiasco with my cable modem continues as I realize that my equipment wasn't the problem after all. Meanwhile, poor Internet service degrades to no service at all.

The popular Internet voice program Skype is not going open source real soon, but, it is on its way.

An effort to manage cable clutter and save energy goes horribly wrong.

Breaking news from Korea, folks: as expected, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has finally approved the Internationalized Domain Names proposal for country-code top-level domain names. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers W00T for the IDN fast track process. Not to mention another halloween costume...

Steve Jobs famously touts AppleTV as "just a hobby". –Like something they work on on weekends, sometimes. If they get around to it.

Net netutrality is a case of who you fear most: Evil telecom companies or the evil FCC? Companies are unlikely to behave without the threat of FCC action, but if the FCC acts we may wish that it hadn't.

This manufacturer needs to set up a remote office just to support the management of its inventory with a certain huge retailer. But after DSL is installed there, the staff calls the help desk because they can't reach the Internet.

Pilot fish gets a call from a department manager on the other side of the building, who's complaining that all the network printers in his area have stopped working.

B2CAC asked the Answer Line forum why his laptop couldn't connect wirelessly to his router.