All Things Gibbs

All Things Gibbs This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Automated Off-Site Data Protection for SMBs Would you bet your company on the data saved during your last backup? Statistics show that only 6% of companies suffering a catastrophic data loss will survive beyond two years. And yet many organizations struggle to maintain a regular backup schedule, especially as more and more employees work from remote locations: branch offices, home offices, and while traveling. Click here to register today and learn how to protect your mission-critical data! Network World's All Things Gibbs Newsletter, 05/22/07 All Things Gibbs By Mark Gibbs Gearhead: Getting rid of the rest of the cruft Last week we discussed cleaning up the cruft that is causing the rampant Winrot in our PC. A few of you wrote in to say that when it came to cleaning up the digital sludge in the Windows registry and other system and application areas, there was joy to be found using the free utility CCleaner. To read this week's Gearhead, click here. Get the latest thinking on the core issues reshaping the new data center. Download our new Executive Guide "Data Center Decisions" to sharpen your competitive edge. The comprehensive range of topics includes: Data Center Trends, User Case Studies, Heat/Power issues and key products for the data center. Click to Download Backspin: The Tao of IT: Lesson 1,266 A few weeks ago we discussed the Tao of IT and our first lesson was about distinguishing between what is wanted and what is needed, and how these issues are often confused. We suggested that you let go of ownership (for example, stop being “server huggers”), think about what infrastructure you really need, and look to hosting and software-as-a-service as the way to optimize costs and flexibility. To read this week's Backspin, click here. Gibbsblog: The past 7 days Cell Phone Service Providers CSRs My son's Sidekick III just lost its backlight and started showing corrupt displays. I called T-Mobile to do a warranty exchange and got the usual CSR: Someone who is barely understandable, is over-familiar (which is annoying not because I want to be called "Mr. Gibbs" but rather because they use you first name so much it is simply irritating), and downright smarmy. How Have You Been Sleeping... ? Need something to keep you up at night -- something more to worry about? Here's a doozy: The U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Homeland Security called this week for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to further investigate the cause of excessive network traffic that shut down an Alabama nuclear plant. Amero Sentencing Delayed Yet Again! Julie Amero, the substitute teacher who was found "guilty" of exposing eighth graders to porn on a PC, has had her sentencing postponed yet again! The poor woman has now had sentencing postponed four times and will now have to wait until June 6th! This is insane. Testing, testing.... Greetings. Irregular Voice 1, Miles Baska here. I'm very new to this blog and it's software, so this, my very 1st post is a test. This is only a test. I am trying to learn just how much HTML I can use here.

TODAY'S MOST-READ STORIES: 1. IT jargon you just love to hate 3. A cynic rips open source 3. Cisco routers cause major outage in Japan 4. Alltel agrees to $27.5B buyout 5. Top 15 controversial Microsoft quotes 6. Foundry readies monster Ethernet switch 7. Microsoft won't sue over Linux - yet 8. DoD software protection comes to commercial sector 9. Why Argonne has pulled the plug on VoIP 10. Wireless vendors target enterprise nets with 802.11n products MOST E-MAILED STORY: Cisco routers cause major outage in Japan

Contact the author: Mark Gibbs is a consultant, author, journalist, and columnist and now blogger: Check out Gibbsblog. Gibbs not only pens (well, keyboards) this newsletter he also writes the weekly Backspin and Gearhead columns in Network World. We’ll spare you the rest of the bio but if you want to know more, go here. Archives of the Network World Web Applications newsletter can be found here. This newsletter is sponsored by Arsenal Digital Solutions Automated Off-Site Data Protection for SMBs Would you bet your company on the data saved during your last backup? Statistics show that only 6% of companies suffering a catastrophic data loss will survive beyond two years. And yet many organizations struggle to maintain a regular backup schedule, especially as more and more employees work from remote locations: branch offices, home offices, and while traveling. Click here to register today and learn how to protect your mission-critical data! BONUS FEATURE IT PRODUCT RESEARCH AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Get detailed information on thousands of products, conduct side-by-side comparisons and read product test and review results with Network World’s IT Buyer’s Guides. Find the best solution faster than ever with over 100 distinct categories across the security, storage, management, wireless, infrastructure and convergence markets. Click here for details. PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE You've got the technology snapshot of your choice delivered to your inbox each day. Extend your knowledge with a print subscription to the Network World newsweekly, Apply here today. International subscribers, click here. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe to any Network World newsletter, change your e-mail address or contact us, click here. This message was sent to: networking.world@gmail.com. Please use this address when modifying your subscription. Advertising information: Write to Associate Publisher Online Susan Cardoza Network World, Inc., 118 Turnpike Road, Southborough, MA 01772 Copyright Network World, Inc., 2007