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	<title>ITdiaries.com</title>
	<link>http://itdiaries.com</link>
	<description>Computers, Networking and Security Blog</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>IT spending</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2008/07/21/it-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2008/07/21/it-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Consumer's eye</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IT spending can be disastrous if the technician has a one-track mind.
Not meaning to harp on MCSEs again, but what is, is.
MCSEs are mostly trained in one track of computer technology.  Period.
Imagine a house builder that only knew how to build houses out of straw.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong.  There are many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MCSE Certificate - What is it&#8217;s value?</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2008/07/20/mcse-certificate-what-is-its-value/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2008/07/20/mcse-certificate-what-is-its-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Consumer's eye</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MCSE certificate have little-to-no value.  Why?
Because today, there are to many MCSE &#8220;Boot camps&#8221; where people are being paid to teach, not the subject matter, rather how to pass a test and nothing more.
It&#8217;s not the fault of the students, but many are there because their state government paid for this change of career [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Network Technician Job Security</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2008/05/07/network-technician-job-security/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2008/05/07/network-technician-job-security/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 16:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Network Technician job security is spotted by us regularly in businesses that are not our clients yet, and is caused by those who are new on the job, or who still do not really understand what they are doing.
Case in point:
One of our techs went to pick up his wife, and went into the building. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Explorer - Can you live without it?</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2008/02/21/internet-explorer-can-you-live-without-it/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2008/02/21/internet-explorer-can-you-live-without-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Internet stuff</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Internet Explorer is a web browser.  It is a piece of software that lets you browse the web like a word processor lets you process documents.
There is no such thing as a &#8220;safe&#8221; web browser, including Internet Explorer, but you CAN be &#8220;safer&#8221;.
Because of their fancy abilities, web browsers have fancy problems (mainly iFrame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft Windows Vista Home</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2007/07/29/microsoft-windows-vista-home/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2007/07/29/microsoft-windows-vista-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft Windows Vista Home IS NOT A BUSINESS COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM.
I know some of you small business owners need to keep expenses down when purchasing computer equipment, but if you make the mistake of purchasing a computer with Microsoft Windows Vista Home on it for your business, your expenses will reach nightmare proportions.
Starting with Microsoft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dell Customer Support still needs work</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2007/07/29/dell-customer-support-still-needs-work/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2007/07/29/dell-customer-support-still-needs-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dell Customer Support was called regarding a client who purchased a Dell computer with Microsoft Windows Vista Business installed, and who wants to remove Microsoft Windows Vista Business because it just doesn&#8217;t work, and install Microsoft Windows XP Pro - which per the Microsoft website, he is legitimately entitiled to do.
When Dell Customer Support is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft WMF vulnerability notes</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-wmf-vulnerability-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2007/03/14/microsoft-wmf-vulnerability-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 07:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Microsoft</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Diane, a fantastic web designer and friend of mine asked me what I thought of Matt Cutts (a Google engineer and the most public &#8220;face&#8221; of Google) blog about a Windows XP exploit in the form of the WMF format vulnerability.
There is enough data in the answer to share it with you as well, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What anti virus protection?</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2007/03/14/what-anti-virus-protection/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2007/03/14/what-anti-virus-protection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Consumer's eye</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anti virus protection is a necessity these days, yet it constantly amazes me how many people don&#8217;t pay attention to their anti virus software.
Is your anti virus software running?  Is it up to date?
&#8220;Um&#8230;  Well, uh&#8230;&#8221;
Ensuring that your anti virus protection is working is similar to locking your Ferrari on the street in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Windows Vista - what will happen?</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2007/02/24/windows-vista-what-will-happen/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2007/02/24/windows-vista-what-will-happen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What will happen with Windows Vista?
Looking in the crystal ball I see the following:
Windows Vista is a pretty, toy-filled computer &#8220;operating system&#8221; that will attract a lot of users.  These will mostly be home-users as Enterprise and corporate users need a computer that &#8220;Just Works&#8221; - they don&#8217;t need &#8220;Oh! Pretty!&#8221;.
These early users are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run, or run from Vista?</title>
		<link>http://itdiaries.com/2007/02/21/run-or-run-from-vista/</link>
		<comments>http://itdiaries.com/2007/02/21/run-or-run-from-vista/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[eWeek.com did a nice slide show on &#8220;Reasons to Run to—and from—Vista&#8221;.
It&#8217;s a good quick read on six pros and six cons for depoloying Vista, but it needs a couple of footnotes:
In the first slide, they describe UAC (User Account Control) as helping to make your computer safer.  They don&#8217;t mention how obnoxious it [...]]]></description>
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