Personally I cannot understand why medium to large sized Irish companies continue to use Eircom, Indigo, Gmail, etc email addresses. For that matter, I rarely understand why anyone starting a business would give this a seconds thought.
When it comes to your employee password policy, you should decide whether your I.T system requires strict policing or not. If you are a company that is regularly audited, you hold sensitive or private information, etc then this a bit of a no-brainer. A decent policy requires that you use a complex password, it should expire at least every 30 days and you should not be allowed to use up to 5 of your previous passwords. See below for recommended password complexity.
For companies that need a real Newsletter Solution there are many options, each with their own benefits and shortcomings and as always, varying price tags.
An Irish website I came across from a submission to Gimmedat.ie was http://www.toddle.ie . This website provides a novel way to setup a Newletter Marketing Campaign in a matter of minutes. They have several professional templates to choose from and they offer a pay-as-you-go pricing structure which is fairly straightforward.
Other solutions which are well worth a look include; Read the rest of this entry »
I was only thinking about throwing out the video player the other day when it crossed my mind on whether I may someday be thinking along similar lines for the Tape Backup as a viable media for data storage.
The floppy drive requiem has been more or less already written which begs the question; which is next?
Nowadays anyone buying a new computer is faced with the prospect of having to choose which type of operating system they need. Even the Question:
So it’s not so simple, or is it? Let’s face it, XP is a safe bet. It’s been around for a while, it’s reliable (for the most part), proven, and pretty much every bit of software out there works on it.
My personal venture into Vistaland was with great reluctance. I wasn’t buying a new computer so an upgrade was on the cards. The first thing to do is check how much RAM your computer has. Click on Start, then Run, and type winver and click ok. If you are running anything less than 2gb, forget about it. As a test I installed Vista on a machine running 512mb RAM and let’s just say I got sick of putting the kettle on.
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