November, 2009

The IT Blog Top 10: Nov. 19, 2009

10. The intermediate IBM i 6.1.1 version Mark Fontecchio takes a look at IBM i 6.1.1, and answers the question of how well it fills the gap for those waiting for i5/OS.

9. Using VRDP to view VirtualBox virtual machines remotely Rick Vanover explains some important adminsitration techniques for users of Sun’s VirtualBox.

8. Success of 64-bit Internet Explorer Depends on Adobe Tony Bradley explains why not everything IE related is in the hands of Microsoft.

7. Novell and Microsoft pact reaches third year mark Leah Rosin blows the  birthday candles on Novell and Microsoft’s odd arrangement, and evaluates some of the criticisms and successes that the past three years have brought these strange bedfellows.

6. Several prominent speakers pull out of COMMON COMMON might be a bit quieter this year; Mark Fontecchio has the reasons why, and what it means to those thinking about going. Continued »

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The IT Blog Top 10: Nov. 12, 2009

10. How to use command line arguments in VBScript via the Wscript.Arguments Object Jerry Lees offers up an indispensible guide for VBScripters.

9. Standard Server 2003 Migration to SBS 2008 Part 3 Roger Crawford’s third part of his series on Server 2003 migrations.

8. Success of 64-bit Internet Explorer Depends on Adobe Tony Bradley explains why not everything IE related is in the hands of Microsoft.

7. No Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 R2 – but why? Brendan Cournoyer delves into why the latest Windows 2008 R2 takes a surprising turn in not support Exchange 2007.

6. Using VRDP to view VirtualBox virtual machines remotely Rick Vanover explains some important adminsitration techniques for users of Sun’s VirtualBox. Continued »

The most-watched IT questions this week: Nov. 10, 2009

Here are the 10 most watched questions on ITKE: There’s some great discussions going on. Go answer a question now and take your shot at winning a TV:

1. Configuring listener.ora was asked by a reader and answered by Jcmdba.

2. generic host for win32 process was posed by a Owolab and answered by Pjb0222 and CarlosDL.

3. Oracle 9i install failure was asked by Sivavvit and answered by Jcmdba and CarlosDL.

4. Oracle usernames was answered by Zagrim and Jcmdba.

5. What are the points to be taken care of when designing a database on Linux? was posed by a user and answered by Mrdenny and CarlosDL.

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The IT Blog Top 10: Nov. 5, 2009

10. How to reset the Cisco Catalyst Switch to Factory Defaults Yasir Irfan offers some advice for those needing a fresh late on Catalyst switches.

9. Independent clauses and semicolons Ivy Wigmore offers up some punctuation advice for the needy.

8. How to use command line arguments in VBScript via the Wscript.Arguments Object Jerry Lees explains a helpful VBScript trick.

7. No Exchange 2007 on Windows 2008 R2 – but why? Brendan Cournoyer delves into why the latest Windows 2008 R2 takes a surprising turn in not support Exchange 2007. Continued »

The most-watched IT questions this week: Nov. 3, 2009

Here are the 10 most watched questions on ITKE: There’s some great discussions going on. Go answer a question now and take your shot at winning a TV:

1. Problem installing Exchange 2007 Management Tools was posed by Labnuke99 and answered by Mshen.

2. What Event ID was asked by Newbiepeon and answered by Jerry mx.

3. After trigger select from other tables using joins was asked by Pmnc8179 and answered by FlaviusMaximus.

4. LotusScript - Computed subform QuerySave event was asked by Shane44 and answered by SlikTool.

5. domino attachment was asked by Bankyboy and answered by David Vasta.

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