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Dos & Don'ts: Save bucks on software licenses (SearchWindowsManageability)
Businesses are losing a bundle on software licenses, according to licensing expert and Win2000Talk host Laura Didio. In this story, Didio and several IT pros share their money-saving license management tips.
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Worm targets SQL server databases (SearchSecurity)
JS/SQLSpider-B hits Microsoft SQL server databases that have no set system administrator passwords. Though it's not destructive and isn't likely to spread easily, it uses system resources to scan for other IP addresses in an attempt to spread and can cause a denial-of-service condition.
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c. Crow
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QUICK HIT
Hospital finds scalable SQL solution
Curtis Boyd needed to replace a 20 year-old mainframe system to reduce report generation times from two weeks to one day. With a little patience, and a lot of testing, SQL led to a successful data migration.
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Maximizing Windows 2000 performance
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Mobile e-mail saves polar explorer's life
Forget about the American Express card. These days you might not want to leave home without your Internet connection. When explorer David Mill wound up on thin ice during a recent North Pole expedition his mobile Net hookup bailed him out. Mill was trapped on an ice floe and being stalked by a polar bear when he e-mailed Canadian rescue teams a digital photo of his location. A chopper answered Mill's call and plucked him from danger. Just think what Columbus could've discovered had he only had a BlackBerry!
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