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Establishing business requirements for software selection
Establishing business requirements for software selection

Weighing the importance of software features The following ILTA KM publication describes principles that apply to all sorts of product-selection projects, not just to search.  Clarify has the definitions that Cersys uses.   In addition to impact ranking, it is helpful to consider when the feature will be needed.  Something might be business-critical in the long run,…

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Update Internet Explorer today
Update Internet Explorer today

Microsoft has now fixed Internet Explorer’s very serious security problem, discovered April 26. Microsoft has provided the corrected versions even for those Internet Explorer versions which run only on their unsupported OS, Windows XP. As we posted here on Tuesday, Microsoft acknowledged that all versions of Internet Explorer contained the flaw, which was already known and exploited by…

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Stop using Internet Explorer ASAP – Security Roundup
Stop using Internet Explorer ASAP – Security Roundup

Stop using Internet Explorer, immediately. Unfortunately, this is no April Fools prank. A devastating security flaw – already being exploited in US industries – has been discovered and is not yet repaired.  It is so serious that the US Department of Homeland Security has moved “to urge users to consider alternative Web browsers until a…

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Server upgrades, War, Peace, and other trivialities
Server upgrades, War, Peace, and other trivialities

I’ve been visiting the seamy underbelly of Windows Server a lot recently. In particular, I’ve installed (and uninstalled and reinstalled and backed out) a set of services without achieving a successful upgrade… my goal is now re-set to get the dev system running the way it was a month ago. What am I still grateful…

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