Dr. Masha Petrova Public Speaking 101 – Presenting for Your Audience Continuing her campaign for better technical presentations, Dr. Masha Petrova now provides simple yet fundamental guidance to becoming a great speaker, in 3 easy steps.... 28 May 2010 12 min read
Ben Lye Troubleshooting Windows Blue Screen Errors The so-called 'Blue Screen of Death' has inspired fear in the hearts of mere mortals, but Systems Administrators are expected be capable of casually beating... 06 May 2010 9 min read
Dr. Masha Petrova 4 Geek Excuses for Bad Presentations Frustrated by technically interesting yet agonizing conferences, Dr. Masha Petrova leaves geeks with no excuses for making bad presentations, and begins her campaign ensure that... 06 April 2010 8 min read
Elie Bou Issa Getting Started with Active Directory Rights Management Services for Exchange 2010 With security concerns being a constant litany, it's worth considering Active Directory Rights Management Services as a powerful tool in your access-control arsenal, particularly when... 06 April 2010 13 min read
Ben Lye Troubleshooting Nonpaged and Paged Pool Errors in Windows Ben Lye uncovered a memory leak in the nonpaged pool which was crashing his servers with disquieting regularity. Luckily it was relatively easy to troubleshoot,... 12 March 2010 6 min read
Matt Simmons Unteachable Disaster Recovery Techniques There are some skills which are extensions of your instincts, and which you can only learn though years of experience. Matt Simmons has this brought... 11 March 2010 5 min read
Ben Lye Active Directory Snapshots with Windows Server 2008 Snapshots are a useful feature of Windows Server 2008. Taking a snapshot of Active Directory as a scheduled task can prove to be a wise... 09 February 2010 7 min read
Dr. Masha Petrova Social Networking at Professional Events Dr. Masha Petrova compresses, into a small space, much good advice on networking with other professional people. She draws from her own experience as a... 14 January 2010 9 min read
Dr. Masha Petrova The Art of Dealing with People Technical people generally don't easily adapt to being good salespeople. When a technical person takes on a customer-facing role as a support engineer, there are... 15 December 2009 8 min read
Dr. Masha Petrova Increase Your Value as a Professional in the Technical Industry It has never been so important to enhance your employability as it is today. Job security can never be taken for granted. Employability, increasing your... 17 November 2009 7 min read
Matt Simmons Hiring System Administrators Hiring someone for a technical post is a task that should never be tackled half-heartedly. Matt Simmons provides some general advice on the subject, illustrated... 24 September 2009 10 min read
Matt Simmons Manage Stress Before it Kills You The key to a long career in IT is in learning how to cope adaptively with stress. Matt Simmons, like many, didn't realise it applies... 29 June 2009 8 min read
Bill Holmberg Change Management- What It Is and Why You Need It Bill Holmberg takes a practical look at Change Management, and list the steps you need to take. To make things simpler, he also provides a... 02 March 2009 12 min read
Matt Simmons A SysAdmin’s Guide to Users What level of trust do you afford users by default? What level of support do you offer users who have low technical skills? Are you... 26 February 2009 10 min read
Matt Simmons A SysAdmin’s Guide to Change Management In the first in a series of monthly articles, 'Confessions of a Sys Admin', Matt describes the issues involved in Change Management, and gives a... 06 January 2009 12 min read
Owen Sanderson When Email Collaboration Could Have Changed History In our mission to make history relevant to the busy IT executive, we speculate how Email might have helped pivotal events in history. Could the... 26 August 2008 4 min read