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ITworld Top Ten
April 18, 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE

Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/105509/0/

Google uses YouTube tool to tackle child porn
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108865/0/

Apple and Sony are the only brands that matter
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108421/0/

Defining success for IT projects
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108420/0/

Dot What!? sites for file extensions
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Sun claims big leap with MySQL upgrade
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108254/0/

Waste Management sues SAP over ERP implementation
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/106352/0/

Customizing your default Outlook template
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108434/0/

New face of IT recruiting
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/107899/0/

Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names
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Case Study: Consolidating Servers While Keeping Them in Sync with DR
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Multi-layer Spam Defense Architectural Overview
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Cisco's IronPort Spam and Virus Blocker
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Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. He took the
first of three laptop computers -- and a $10,000 cash prize -- Thursday
after breaking into a MacBook Air at the CanSecWest security
conference's PWN 2 OWN hacking contest.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/105509/0/

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Google uses YouTube tool to tackle child porn
By Carrie-Ann Skinner, PC Advisor

Google has adapted a program originally created to block copyrighted
videos from being posted to YouTube in a bid to track files containing
child pornography.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108865/0/

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Apple and Sony are the only brands that matter
By Don Reisinger, ITworld

How did Apple and Sony brainwash consumers so thoroughly? Surely we can
find products that other companies make better, but both firms sit atop
the personal technology industry with nary a hint of a competitor. All
the while, better products, like a Canon digital camera or an iRiver
Clix sit on store shelves while Sony's Cyber-shot and Apple's iPod
continue to sell extremely well. This is especially baffling in an age
where people are keen on research.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108421/0/

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Defining success for IT projects
By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com

I am always amused when I read stats of the form: "X percent of IT
projects fail". It would be funny if it wasn't so misleading. "That
darned IT stuff.", the subtext goes. "It has failure written all over
it..." Right. Here is an alternative headline: "X percent of attempts to
fundamentally change the way an organization operates, fail."
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108420/0/

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Dot What!? sites for file extensions
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

With nearly 9,000 file extensions listed and 50 users browsing the site
on a Saturday night, the Dot What!? claims to be the net's #1 file
extension website. It offers visitors an opportunity to suggest
additional file extensions and to add comments concerning their uses and
associations. While writing this column, I suggested .pl, an extension
sometimes used for Perl scripts, and offered explanations for .cgi
extensions. A review by a member of the Dot What!? team is necessary
before updates and changes are posted.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108053/0/

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Sun claims big leap with MySQL upgrade
By James Niccolai, IDG News Service

MySQL developers should be able to get their hands on a major update to
the open-source database this week when Sun Microsystems hosts its first
MySQL conference since acquiring the company earlier this year.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/108254/0/

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Waste Management sues SAP over ERP implementation
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service

The trash-disposal giant Waste Management is suing SAP, saying top SAP
executives participated in a fraudulent sales scheme that resulted in a
failed ERP (enterprise resource planning) implementation.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3148262/162105012/106352/0/

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Customizing your default Outlook template
Mitch Tulloch, ITworld.com

You can customize the default formatting of your Outlook messages by
specifying margins, setting tabs, configuring line spacing, and more,
and then applying your changes to the Normal template for Outlook
messages. Here's how in 7 steps.
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New face of IT recruiting
By Emmanuel Conde, Bridge Resourcing Solutions

Move over job fairs. The recruiting industry has changed, and it's
either do or die. Recruiters who once relied on faxes and job fairs to
collect candidates and connect with hiring companies must consider
social networks, blogs, virtual worlds, and other online media in order
to survive. There's a lot to choose from, and the key is to keep it fun,
share the experience, and connect the virtual and real worlds when
possible.
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Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names
By Josh Fruhlinger, ITworld.com

In this brave new Web 2.0 world, it's almost a badge of honor to have a
Web site name that only hints at what the user will find there (see
Flickr) or is so opaque as to offer no clue at all as to what the Web
site is about (see del.icio.us). It's easy to forget the first Internet
gold rush of the mid-to-late '90s, when dot-com domain names based on
ordinary (and, investors hoped, marketable) nouns and verbs were snapped
up by hopeful companies from the humble geeks who had purchased them
(often ironically) in the early '90s. The weird and wooly history of the
Web can best be traced through some of its most generic domains. Here's
a sampling that trace the arc from the geeks to the entrepreneurs and
into a more staid corporate world.
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ITWHIRLED

Top ten people to butter up before the recession hits
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You may still have your job for the moment, but it's never too soon to
start making nice with the people you'll need when you inevitably lose
it. From the baristas at the local coffee shop that you'll be calling
your "office" to the in-laws in whose basement you'll be living when
your house is foreclosed on, this handy checklist will help you
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Blue Coat Systems outlines the top 10 reasons why hackers use the web to
attack including desktop and server vulnerabilities, the widespread
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