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Every time someone asks me about my profession, people’s reaction is often the same: -Wow! So you’re like those hackers I see in the (Hollywood) movies! That’s really cool! Listen, can you discover someone’s password for me? After an hour long monologue telling them the difference between hackers and crackers, the unethical implications of discovering [...]

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If you think Cisco training might be for you, and you’re new to working with switches and routers, it’s likely you’ll need the Cisco CCNA qualification. This will give you skills for setting up and maintaining routers. The world wide web is built up of many routers, and big organisations with multiple departments and sites [...]

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I was fortunate to be invited to be a panelist at the Governor’s Healthcare IT conference  in Boston held on April 29th and April 30th . The conference was hosted by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and was titled “Health Information Technology: Creating Jobs, Reducing Costs and Improving Quality.” I spoke on the panel titled “Jobs, [...]

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If you are not backing up the data for your small business, you are at risk of going out of business. Here are some statistics that will give you some good reasons to backup your valuable data. Key causes for unplanned downtime: 25% Hardware25% Software20% Network15% Human error14% Environmental Source: Gartner Group 2001 Suddenly losing [...]

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In less than a decade we’ve seen drastic shifts in how people find jobs, create careers, and establish personal and professional relationships. The next generation (the “net” generation?) has known technology from childhood. They thrive in a world of instant messaging, blogs, social networking, online collaboration, and more. They think differently; they work differently; and [...]

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It’s about who you know, NOT what you know!  But, what if you don’t know anyone?  Then what are you suppose to do?  You suppose to go hunting and make contacts.  When finding any job the first rule is to make looking for a job your JOB!  Finding a Job Is Your Job [...]

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