Mine Safety and Health Administration builds data center from scratch

A new third facility in the works will be located in Beckley, W.V., and would serve as a back-up for the agency's two other data centers, one in Arlington, Va., and the other near Denver.

Color-coding your cables

While cable colors are not standardized, there are a few tricks to keeping it simple.

PDF now ISO standard

And Adobe Systems releases Version 9 of Adobe Reader.

Data centers untangled

The cabling in data centers can grow like the worst kind of weed, clogging cooling systems and hindering network performance. Here are 13 practical tips for getting control over what lies beneath the floor.

Fewer cables in your future

As data centers become increasingly packed with servers and equipment, facilities managers can take comfort in knowing that at least some simplification is coming.

Ed Amoroso | The big picture of network security

GCN Interview: AT&T's chief security officer talks about the advantages of pushing security onto the network, where it can keep things such as spam traffic at bay.

Most network data sits untouched

We are too busy writing new data to go back over old data; organizations might consider moving old data to slower, less expensive storage units.

Acrobat 9 with Flash

New version of Acrobat PDF editor enables Flash animations, audio and business logic to be inserted in PDF documents.

VMware pioneers decoupled dynamic analysis

Researchers at VMware have pioneered a novel technique in dynamic analysis, one that separates the running program from the analysis tool, by use of virtual containers.

Microsoft Exchange on Linux?!?

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Linux developers condemn binary drivers

A group of developers has signed a statement condemning binary-only Linux modules, which they argue can wreak havoc on Linux deployments.

OSD delves into HR archiving

The Office of Personnel and Readiness Information Management at the Defense Department has learned to save time and money by digitizing frequently consulted documents.

Wanted: ECM the easy way

Enterprise content management systems remain too difficult for most office workers to use, which is hampering full use of their data, according to a new report.

Supercomputing superpower

The U.S. continues to be a supercomputing powerhouse, accounting for slightly more than half of the supercomputers on the biannual compilation of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers.

Who's got the time?

As computer systems become increasingly precise, a conflict emerges between human and machine measurements.

Avoiding Outlook's twilight zone

Outlook is utterly dependent on the operating system for knowing what time it is. Microsoft Windows gets the Universal Coordinated Time from the Internet and offsets that time to the time zone the user sets, while also adjusting for any daylight saving time if necessary.

Spreadsheeting to the max

The spreadsheet is more versatile than you might think. Here are tips on how to get more out of your programs.

SNMP not bedeviled after all

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Spreadsheeting: More resources

Links to resource pages for WordPerfect Office, OpenOffice, Google Docs and Microsoft Excel, as well as speadsheet design guidance.

OpenOffice offers macro alternative

The developers behind the open-source OpenOffice, and its commercial offshoot Sun Microsystems StarOffice, have been working on a spreadsheet alternative, called Extensions. OpenOffice Extensions are programs written to run within OpenOffice that customize the office suite.

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