I recently came across an article from InfoWorld magazine which I absolutely loved. It listed 30 skills that every IT person should have. I couldn’t agree more with the article. It seems that more and more IT programs in colleges and universities are moving away from general Information Technology and having students focus on programming [...]

In the interests of full disclosure, I didn’t come up with this idea. I read about it in a computer magazine a year or two back but of course when I wanted to refer to it for this article, I couldn’t find it! But someone on Digg eventually managed to find it so here is [...]

Let’s face it, Windows machines get hacked, and in some environments it happens a lot. Fortunately, Microsoft has built numerous tools into Windows so administrators and power users can analyze a machine to determine whether it’s been compromised. In this tip, which is the first of a two-part series, I’ll cover five useful command-line tools [...]

  With the huge number of things we can do today from our computers and laptops, a computer users worst fear is that someone has illegally accessed their computer and has access to their files and their information. With online banking, E-Bay, and other online shopping, our computers now store an immense amount of sensitive [...]