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Using Speccy to Understand What’s Inside Your Computer
This week we’d like to cover a tool that assists with understanding what is actually in that desktop or laptop you work with. Most of us know in lesser or greater detail that there is a CPU, some random access memory (RAM) a hard disk drive (HDD), various peripherals...
How to Obtain Electric Commander Metrics for Use in a GWT Plugin
Developed by Electric Cloud, Electric Commander is an extremely versatile tool for enhancing and automating your organization’s software development build-test-deploy cycle. Commander makes it possible to eliminate unnecessary lag time between phases of the...
Get Insight Into Your Misbehaving Laptop With Three Free Tools
Get insight into your laptop’s status and taking some precautions with CPUID’s Hardware Monitor and CPU-Z and Belarc Advisor It happens to most laptops eventually. After two or more years of heavy (ab)use, most of our laptops are not in the condition they were...
3-Step Fix for your rr.nu WordPress Virus Outbreak
Symptoms of the rr.nu Wordpress Virus: Wordpress-based websites infected with the virus are redirecting visitors to a fake virus-scan website. The URL looks like http://*.rr.nu. When you check the files on your server, the following line is inserted into your .php...
Five Steps to Take if Your IT Outsourcing Agreement Goes South
IT outsourcing relationships can be fraught with challenges, ranging from communications breakdowns between client and provider to issues surrounding performance. If an IT outsourcing agreement isn’t meeting your company’s expectations (e.g. SLA targets are missed;...
Distinguishing Between Virtual Teams and IT Outsourcing
One of the benefits of an IT outsourcing partnership is that it can offer companies the option of working with virtual teams who can help support different types of IT and business operations, regardless of the locations of the workers. Teams and team members who work...
How to Setup License Statistics Free Version
Software asset management tools, particularly license usage and monitoring software are gaining more and more interest among large corporations. It should come as no surprise since by utilizing such tools they stand to gain upwards to 10% in cost reductions and that...
Software Development Using Kanban
Software Development Using Kanban The SPK development team engages with customers utilizing agile principals. This typically means incremental sprint deliveries of code as part of a scrum model. At a recent engagement, we employed an interesting variation of this...
Security basics with IPTables
When on the internet, there's always concerns of security. If you're listening on some services but not others, you need to modify the Linux firewall to allow this. Also, if there's undesirable clients accessing ports and hacking, IPTables is an effective...
Oracle Database Cloning Made Easy
As a systems integrator, I spend my time behind a variety of applications every day. Each of these applications stores its data in some type of database. The most common databases I deal with are typically MySQL, Oracle, DB2, Postgres, and MS SQL Server. As such,...
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Guide To Multi-Instance Scale In Atlassian Cloud
How Atlassian Cloud Enterprise Enables You To Unify And Extend Your Organization. The adoption of Jira or Confluence often starts at the team level. But as many organizations look to scale these products across the company, natural barriers can arise. These challenges...