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ITworld Top Ten
April 25, 2008
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IN THIS ISSUE

Psystar has shown that Apple should license Mac OS X
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109975/0/

British police use Facebook to gather evidence
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109381/0/

Gone in 2 minutes: Mac gets hacked first in contest
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/105509/0/

5 IT skills that won't boost your salary
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109401/0/

AMD reports sixth consecutive quarterly loss
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109250/0/

Managing Remote Desktop settings on a remote computer
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109695/0/

How to stop worrying and learn to love IT complexity
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109693/0/

Unix Sleuthing: One problem leads to another
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109694/0/

A new kind of Web -- don't miss these 11 sites
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/108097/0/

Apple and Sony are the only brands that matter
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/108421/0/


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Case Study: Consolidating Servers While Keeping Them in Sync with DR
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/101211/0/

Multi-layer Spam Defense Architectural Overview
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Cisco's IronPort Spam and Virus Blocker
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/102331/0/


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Psystar has shown that Apple should license Mac OS X
By Don Reisinger, ITworld.com

Last weekend, a small, defiant company called Psystar unleashed an
opening salvo as it announced (and started selling) the Open Computer -
its own desktop running Mac OS X Leopard. If nothing else, Psystar's
impending martyrdom will blaze the path for countless other companies
that believe they can stand up to Apple.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109975/0/

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British police use Facebook to gather evidence
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service

The Greater Manchester Police force has created a Facebook application
to collect leads for investigations, marking the first use of the social
networking site by U.K. law enforcement.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109381/0/

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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/3194375/162105012/105509/0/

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5 IT skills that won't boost your salary
Denise Dubie, Network World

Industry watchers would be hard pressed to name specific IT skills that
are entirely dead or completely useless, but some skills are decidedly a
thing of the past -- as reflected by the declining pay associated with
them. As hot skills like virtualization rise to the top of company
must-have lists, talents in certain operating systems and specific
vendor products fall to the bottom. Here are five high-tech skills that
don't demand the pay they once did.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109401/0/

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AMD reports sixth consecutive quarterly loss
By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

A weak first quarter has yielded a sixth consecutive quarterly loss at
struggling chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109250/0/

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Managing Remote Desktop settings on a remote computer
By Mitch Tulloch, ITworld.com

An article I wrote almost four years ago about remotely enabling Remote
Desktop on a Windows Server 2003 machine is still generating a lot of
discussion. One reader recently shared a script he wrote that takes the
ideas in my article one step further. His company has a corporate policy
in place that says remote desktop should be disabled by default on all
Windows computers. So he wrote a simple script that he could use to
remotely enable Remote Desktop, perform his work on the remote machine,
and then disable Remote Desktop again easily.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109695/0/

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How to stop worrying and learn to love IT complexity
By Sean McGrath, ITworld.com

Ask yourself why you got in to IT in the first place. Was it to just
turn up every day and monitor a stable-state system that works just fine
all by itself? No. I didn't think so. Here is a weird factoid about IT
folk who are good problem solvers: they are bored when there are no
problems to solve. To avoid boredom (a heinous mental state!), they
innovate. Innovation creates complexity. We tear our hair. We worry. But
deep down, we really like it this way.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109693/0/

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Unix Sleuthing: One problem leads to another
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

When tracking down an unusual problem on a Unix system, you may
encounter many turns and dead ends on the path toward the solution as
some problems may have little connection to what first appears to be
troubling your system. This is such a tale.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/109694/0/

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A new kind of Web -- don't miss these 11 sites
By Jack Widman, Computerworld

Here are 11 Web 2.0 sites or mashups or whatever you want to call them
that show what the new Web can do, from helping you organize your life
to adding some personalized fun to it.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/108097/0/

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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/3194375/162105012/108421/0/

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ITWHIRLED

Gas geek gang tries to run over cop
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3194375/162105012/101019/0/
Who says Americans aren't tech innovators? A group of Florida thieves
came up with a computerized device local police say they've never seen
before to hack electronic gas pumps and get unlimited petrol. But their
criminal skills turned out to be not on the same level as their
engineering smarts: when spotted by a police officer, they attempted to
run him over with their car.


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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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