The 31 Worst Face-Palm Moments in IT
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August 2, 2013
You’ve probably heard the phrase “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. I want to introduce another in the same vein as that – “The Dumb, the Stupid, and the Unbelievable”. I’ve been an IT consultant for many years, and …
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Protecting your time and resources with GFI WebMonitor is about to get even easier
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October 28, 2009
In multiple articles on this blog, we have extolled the virtues of monitoring your network traffic. From Walter Scott’s article on the virtues of time management and the productivity of the monitored employee, to the numerous discussions regarding security within …
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Security vs. Productivity in the Workplace
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October 27, 2009
Conventional wisdom has always told us that when it comes to deciding what users should be allowed to do, the correct choice would be to allow access only to what they need to do, or more accurately, to allow the …
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Copy and Paste is not working on my Remote Desktop Connection… what’s wrong?
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October 26, 2009
A very annoying occurrence that I sometimes suffer is when all of a sudden the copy and paste function stops working when I am connected to a remote machine. Turns out the problem is coming from a little process called …
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Nine GFI products support Microsoft’s latest platforms
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October 23, 2009
We are pleased to announce that nine of our products now support Microsoft’s latest platforms – Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. These new platforms have been designed to improve upon performance, applicability, device compatibility, reliability, security and battery …
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The Dangers of Social Networking
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October 22, 2009
Social sites such as Facebook and MySpace are a big hit nowadays; not just with the young generation but with people of all ages. It’s an amazing platform for people to connect but it certainly isn’t without its dangers. As …
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Oops! We’ve lost your data!
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October 21, 2009
Over 100,000 former adult students in Virginia are being contacted by the education authorities after a USB stick with information including their names, social security numbers and employment and demographic details, was misplaced. The data was not encrypted, the Washington …
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Into uncharted territory
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October 20, 2009
I decided to go a bit further than usual, and push the limits of the unknown. I decided to install Funtoo, a Gentoo based distro or rather fork, by the Gentoo fouder Daniel Robbins. Daniel is no longer active in …
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GFI MAX visits SMB Nation 2009 in Riviera, Las Vegas
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October 19, 2009
It was a warm, arid evening when MAX stepped off the plane in McClaren Airport in fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada. MAX brought his favorite crew – Kevin Hodak, Sales Engineer, Anne Murphy, Channel Marketing Manager and Kelly O’Bray, Post Sales …
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Mind that password… again
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October 16, 2009
Last week I commented on the phishing attack that resulted in more than 10,000 passwords being leaked online. An analysis of the passwords showed that many computer users are more concerned with choosing a password that they can remember rather …
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GFI Malta hosts EMEA Conference
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October 16, 2009
The GFI EMEA Distributor Conference 2009 was held on Friday, October 9 at The Palace Hotel in Sliema. There were 38 EMEA Distributors present plus executive management, the EMEA sales team, members from Product Management and members from the Marketing department. …
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