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1. Determine your desired outcome There are 4 types of email: Self-Fulfilling Email: The email itself is the point. You want to tell the recipient something, either a compliment or information. No reply is necessary. Inquiries: You need something from the recpient in the form of a reply. For example, advice or questions answered. TheRead more

Depending on who you listen to, it seems there’s always a study indicating that energy consumption driven by the Internet is bad. If you add up the energy consumed in the construction of our computers and networks, the operation of our servers and the transmission, storage and retrieval of all this information, you get the equivalent of from 4Read more

Your corporate data center is hit with a power outage. All UPS systems are running and operational or are they? You soon realize that a faulty UPS system supporting your networks database environment has not done its job. All data are still intact and there does not seem to be any corruption, except for theRead more

Smartphones have become a household commodity. If you think everyone has traded in their simple phone call-only devices for these pocket-sized computers, you`re not imagining things. A recent survey by the Pew Internet Project shows that 35% of American adults own one. And many people are now using them more frequently than their PCs: SomeRead more

To paraphrase George Carlin: An office is just a place to keep your stuff while you go online and get more stuff. At some point your stuff becomes broken, redundant or outmoded, and you have to get rid of it. But what do you do with all that stuff? We just went through such an exercise withRead more