Linux Networking Tips
. . . from the TechRepublic 10 Things Blog. Several of these are pretty important!
Plugins for Firefox
Firefox is my preferred browser, both under Windows and on Linux (Ubuntu), so I was interested in this list from the TechRepublic 10 Things Blog. To be honest, I’ve only tried a couple of these, but I thing that several will be particularly useful, especially #2 NoScript, #4 BBCode (I use online forums quite a…
OpenOffice.org Templates
More help from the folks at the OpenOffice blog, this time on templates. Good article.
Getting People to Use OpenOffice
I’m not very good at this myself, even though I’m personally committed. Here are some ideas that might help.
IT Ethics from TechRepublic
I thought this video from Jason Hiner of video from TechRepublic would apply only to large offices, but I found that all of the considerations have come up in one form or another in my small office work. Worth watching.
Amazon Green
. . . has been announced at the Amazon.com Associates Blog. This gives you an opportunity to buy products that customers have identified as “green friendly.”
Trends in Display Design
MSNBC has an interesting story here.
Too Nice in the Workplace?
Some thoughts from the Career Management Blog.
Scam E-mails – Apply Common Sense
My parents taught me when I was very young that if something looked too good to be true, it probably wasn’t. That kind of good sense applies to detecting scams. The question to ask when you are offered a program that is supposed to make you lots of money with very little work is this:…
Pay Attention to Site Behavior
There’s a story on MSNBC.com about a security vulnerability discovered in DNS servers. Those are the machines that take the name you type into your address bar and convert it into numbers your computer can comprehend. If it converts it into the wrong set of numbers, you go to the wrong place. It would be…