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| Explore the Internet in a Whole New Way |
| For a long time now Microsoft's Internet Explorer has ruled as 'King of Internet browsers'. Like many of Microsoft's products an initially brutal marketing campaign pushed Internet Explorer into the mainstream's consciousness and from then on it was the logical, default choice. It's free with the operating system, works well, loads any page and is easy to use. Other web browsers soon faded into obscurity and sometimes even died in the shadow of the new king of the pack. Netscape Navigator, the f More.. |
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| Two Reasons to Use Timesheet Software |
| This short paper will expand on two key reasons to move to a computerized timesheet system at your company. There are more than two reasons of course, but these will be expanded on at a later date. The two key reasons to be discussed here are Timesheet Efficiency, and Timesheet Automation.
Timesheet Efficiency is the concept of a single data entry exercise done accurately and quickly. Timesheet Automation is the simple concept of managing timesheet information electronically rather than on pape More.. |
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| The Importance of Timely Timesheets |
| Whether you are a small consultancy firm, a medium sized accountancy practice, or a code warrior for hire in a back room of your house then you have at least one thing in common: you are in business to get paid quickly, and for the work you have done. Timesheets are the usual method for tracking time you spent working and thus are the key to timely invoice generation. Timely invoice generation and despatch is important for two reasons:
1. You are more likely to get paid for your services the cl More.. |
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| The Top 5 Wrong Reasons For Not Hiring Testers |
| Considering whether or not your software company should hire a dedicated team of testers? Here are the Top 5 Wrong Reasons why you shouldn't.
We Have a Beta Program
Some people feel that the best way to debug a system is to ship it to your customers and wait for trouble tickets. I don't know how things work in your industry, but as far as I'm concerned, finding new customers is hard enough. I definitely don't want to make matters worse by shipping them buggy software.
I've spent the last 5 yea More.. |
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| Change Your Word Docs in Record Time! |
| Anyone who has ever used Microsoft Word knows that it is apowerful word processing package. It's loaded with dozens offeatures designed to make creating documents a breeze. And anyonewho has used Word's Find and Replace feature knows that this isone handy feature. It makes changing words or phrases throughoutyour documents fast and painless.
And that's great when you're working on just one document. Butsuppose you need to find and then replace a word or phrasethroughout all of your Microsoft do More.. |
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| Databases - How We Love to Hate Them! |
| You've finally created databases that you can actually use tostore and manipulate all your critical data. That's great newsand quite an accomplishment. But in your rush to get youremployees to start entering information into these databases, youskipped the training process and let them go at it alone.
That was not such a good decision, but one you did not care aboutuntil you decided to tackle your first mail merge. Instead ofgetting what you expected to get, you got all variations ofaddress and More.. |
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| Increase Office Efficiency With One Simple Tool |
| When you need a phone number, you do a quick search on theInternet and in a few seconds, you've got the information youneed. And you probably receive a lot of contact information rightinside the emails you receive every day. Both methods are by farmore convenient than using those white or yellow-coloredtelephone directories.
And as with every new trend that emerges, there soon comes a wayto improve on an improvement. Even though you receive businessaddresses, phone and cell numbers, email addre More.. |
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| How to Choose the BEST Charting Software |
| I suggest that you do not spend a lot of money on charting software as most perform very similar functions. Often the price is inflated to capitalize on the mentality that expensive is better. A software package under $1000 will perform all of the tasks required by even the most advanced traders.
The perfect charting software needs to be the most powerful technical analysis tool no matter what you are trading ….. stocks, futures or currencies.
Unfortunately, of the thousands of people wh More.. |
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| Who Is Minding Your Sensitive Data? |
| Stealing company information used to be the specialty of spiesand conspirators. It was something that only happened to the mostpowerful of corporations and branches of government.
Nowadays, stealing data is commonplace and anyone can become avictim at any time. The person standing in line behind you mightbe running a profitable side business stealing other peoplesâ?'sensitive data. The reality is, however, that â??insideâ?? jobs arethe most common when discussing business data theft.
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| Introduction To ISDN, Part II |
| In the previous ISDN article, we looked at how and why one router dials another using ISDN. Just as important is knowing what keeps the link up once it is dialed.
Why? Because ISDN acts as a phone call between two routers, and itâ?'s billed that way to your client. The two routers that are connected by this phone call may be located in different area codes, so now weâ??re talking about a long distance phone call.
If your ISDN link does not have a reason to disconnect, the connection coul More.. |
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| Cisco Certification: Introduction To ISDN, Part III |
| Configuring PPP PAP Authentication
Now we know how the ISDN link comes up (interesting traffic), and some scenarios that might cause the link to stay up, we need to look at ISDN authentication schemes. The two methods Cisco certification candidates must be familiar with are PAP and CHAP.
Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) sends the username and password over the ISDN link in clear-text. Sending any passwords over any WAN link in clear-text is generally a bad idea, but itâ?'s important t More.. |
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| Cisco Certification: Introduction To ISDN, Part IV |
| In part III of this ISDN primer, we learned that PPP has two main methods of authentication that Cisco certification candidates need to know how to configure: PAP and CHAP.
PAP has very few advantages over CHAP. PAP passwords are carried over the line in clear-text, which in today's world is a very bad idea. PAP configuration also requires additional configuration with the "ppp pap sent-username" command, so anyone who can see your running configuration can also see the PAP password.
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| Cisco Certification: Introduction To ISDN, Part V |
| The major reason I recommend getting your hands on real Cisco equipment rather than a simulator is that real Cisco routers give you the chance to practice and learn show and debug commands.
The knowledge you acquire from debugs is invaluable. Frankly, itâ?'s this knowledge that puts you above the â??averageâ?? CCNA who doesnâ??t have that hands-on experience. Watching debugs in action also gives you a head start on the CCNP. Since 90 â?" 95% of CCNAs go on to pursue the CCNP, ità More.. |
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| The True Meaning of Freeware |
| The vast majority of us will have, at some point, had freeware games or applications installed on our systems. If you've played an online Java or Flash based game, you've used freeware. In a very real way the Internet itself is freeware, a massive collections of scripts, information, tools and resources that are, for the most part, totally free. But what is it that motivates so many people to put so much work into a project, and then release it totally free of charge? There are a few misconcepti More.. |
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| Begun, The Browser Wars Have |
| As Mozilla Firefox nears 10% market share, with well over 25 million downloads direct from the makers website, and goodness knows how many through other sources, Microsoft announces that it will be releasing IE 7 ahead of schedule. Originally scheduled for release with Microsoft's new Longhorn operating system in 2006, it seems that Microsoft are reacting to the run away success that Firefox has had over the last few months. But is Microsoft's announcement just a response to Firefox's success, o More.. |
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| Information Products: A Business Owners Best Friend |
| We live in a post-industrial age where information is the coin of the realm. Knowledge is the most valuable asset that a business owns. For most businesses, that knowledge exists primarily in the heads of the people who work there. For entrepreneurs and sole practitioners, what's in their head usually is the business. That's both limiting and dangerous.
Let's take the example of a successful management consultant. Drawing on her knowledge and experience, she's able to hire herself out at a subs More.. |
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| Microsoft Great Plains Partner Selection: Overview |
| Microsoft Great Plains, Navision, Solomon and Axapta are Microsoft Business Solutions ERP applications, serving to the whole spectrum of vertical and horizontal markets. Assuming that you already have one of these systems installed and implemented we would like to give you - IT director, Database Administrator, Programmer, Software Developer, Controller your options in supporting/upgrading Microsoft Great Plains for your company
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| Crystal Reports - Microsoft SQL Server |
| Microsoft SQL Server is the leader for inexpensive and middle size SQL solutions. Plus it is now capable to serve large enterprise on Microsoft Windows platform. Crystal Reports is the most flexible tool on the market and it has market recognition. Multiple software vendors offer Crystal Reports as the main reporting tool: Microsoft, Best Software, Oracle to name a few.
Sometimes developers try to use Crystal directly to pull data from multiple database platforms - we understand the need to giv More.. |
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| Microsoft Blues |
| With the advent of 'Service Pack 2' for Windows XP operating system, Microsoft have really made the forums hum.
Every forum on computer problems is replete with complaints that since downloading and installing 'SP2', many 'third party' applications don't work.
This service pack was needed to keep viruses and trojans out of people's computers when they are on the internet, but it has caused a world wide backlash against the software giant because people's favored applications won't work, or the More.. |
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| Microsoft CRM Customization |
| Microsoft CRM customization techniques are very diversified and based on the whole spectrum of recent Microsoft technologies. The main terms you should know are: Microsoft CRM SDK 1.2 and Visual Studio.Net 2003. And of course you should be familiar with all the legacy internet technologies, such as HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript and be good C#/VB/Net developer.
If you are developer who is asked: how do we customize Microsoft CRM - read this and you will have the clues on where to look further.
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| Microsoft CRM or Siebel |
| Siebel is traditional CRM market leader, however and mostly due to recession 200-2003, Siebel lost sizable portion of CRM market to new tiger, such as Microsoft CRM. Microsoft CRM s recent (2001) CRM answer from Microsoft and attempt top get market share from traditional vendors: Siebel, Oracle, Onyx. Now it is targeted to the whole spectrum of horizontal and vertical market clientele. It is tightly integrated with other Microsoft Business Solutions products such as Microsoft Great Plains, Solom More.. |
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| Need of Document Management System (DMS) |
| Document Management or Enterprise Information Management is perhaps one of the most important of the enterprise solutions that will provide a solution to the various requirements of SOX. Several sections of SOX have a direct bearing on the manner in which the digital documents/records of the enterprise are created, reviewed, approved, stored, retrieved, transferred, and destroyed.
Knowledge Management: Document & Records Management
Estimates have been made calculating that a significantly larg More.. |
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| Microsoft CRM Customization - Programming Closed Email Activity |
| Microsoft CRM is CRM answer from Microsoft and attempt to get market share from Siebel, Oracle and others traditional Client Relationship Management System vendors. Microsoft CRM uses all the spectrum of Microsoft recent technologies: .Net, MS Exchange, MS Outlook, MS SQL Server, Replication, Indexing, Active Directory, Windows 2000/2003 security model, C#, VB.Net, HTML, XML Web Service, XLTP, Javascript to name a few.
Today's topic is Activity of email type programming - you usually deal with More.. |
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| Easy Guide to RAID Recovery |
| What is RAID RECOVERY?
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It is a method of combining several hard drives into one unit. This method offers fault tolerance (the ability of a system to continue to perform functions even when one or more hard disk drives have failed) and higher protection against data loss than a single hard drive.
Why do I need RAID RECOVERY?
RAID provides real-time data recovery when a hard drive fails, increasing system uptime and network availability whil More.. |
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| Microsoft CRM Customization: Integration with Third Party SQL Application/Database |
| Microsoft CRM - Client Relationship Management package from Microsoft Business Solutions was initially designed to be customizable with Microsoft Visual Studio.Net and one of its programming languages - C#.Net or VB.Net. You can use ADO.Net, Web Service, Transact SQL scripting and stored procedures, deploy such SQL Server tools as Linked Server to all ODBC/OLEDB compliant database, including ORACLE, Sybase, Ingress, DB2, Unidata, Pervasive SQL, Ctree and even Lotus Notes/Domino.
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| OLAP, An Alternative Technology Over Spreadsheets |
| Are Spreadsheets Robbing your Enterprise of Competitive Advantage?
'90% of "average" companies are not confident that their forecasts and reports are accurate and reliable'
In a recent study, 81% of FD's cited that their highest priority is the accuracy of revenue and earnings forecasts while 63% complained of inadequate budgeting and forecasting systems .
The modern FD is coming under increasing pressure from all sides to produce more robust, meaningful and accurate financial information. Th More.. |
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| C++ Function Templates |
| C++ Function templates are those functions which can handle different data types without separate code for each of them. For a similar operation on several kinds of data types, a programmer need not write different versions by overloading a function. It is enough if he writes a C++ template based function. This will take care of all the data types.
There are two types of templates in C++, viz., function templates and class templates. This article deals with only the function templates.
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| The Opera Alternative |
| Security flaws have long plagued Internet Explorer (IE), the market-dominating web browser from Microsoft. IE won the early browser wars, not only because it was free and bundled with Windows, but because it had some features and capabilities that its only real competitor, Netscape, didn't have. But the behind-the-scenes programming that makes those features possible is the very coding that also leaves wide gaps in IE's defenses against viruses and malicious scripting. Among several browser alte More.. |
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| The End of Spyware? |
| The US House of Representatives has recently passed the "Spy Act" - or to give it its full title - the Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act. This aims to prevent software companies from installing spyware on users PCs without their knowledge, and anyone found guilty of breaching the act faces a fine of up to $3 million.
Does this mean the end of spyware as we know it? Unfortunately the answer is no, not really. The problem is that most spyware can continue to operate in exactly More.. |
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| Microsoft Great Plains Remote Support - Overview |
| Microsoft Great Plains is now standard mid-market ERP application, serving the whole spectrum of businesses. In the case of mid-size business we usually see strong IT team with SQL querying skills plus accounting department is already trained to use Great Plains and needs minimal help in figuring out on how to use new Great Plains version and features. In this situation company may leverage it's work force strength and minimize ERP application support cost. This is the goal of Microsoft Business More.. |
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| Configure Windows Indexing Service for Performance |
| The Windows Indexing Service provides you with the ability to perform advanced searches on directories located on your computer and on shared directories on the network. The Indexing Service was introduced with IIS (Internet Information Services) and is now installed with Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
The Indexing Service is not started by default on a Windows 2000 professional computer. If you want the Indexing service to start automatically, select "Start | Settings | Control Panel | Administr More.. |
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| Hubris - Definition: Microsofts Passport |
| Before September of 1995, Microsoft ignored the Internet because their 16-bit Windows 3.1 operating system couldn't handle the 32-bit Internet world. With the introduction of Windows 95, Microsoft decided they owned the Internet.
Instead of having separate accounts at dozens of websites, Microsoft decided that you will have one master account that you will use to log in everywhere. That account will contain your credit card number, bank account numbers, all your personal information and financi More.. |
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