I guess everyone comes to points in their career where they have to choose one of the many paths that they are presented with. I am certainly in that spot currently. A few years ago I got my PMP certification using training from a company called LearnSmart Systems. Their LearnSmart training was excellent and it left me really well prepared to pass my PMP with no problems. For the past two years or so I have been working at a mid-size company in the US as a project manager and have somewhat enjoyed...

A few weeks back I upgraded my Kubuntu installation to Karmic kaffeine version 1 came with it. Personally I would rather have kaffeine 0.8 so I decided to attempt to block updates to the package in order to use accomplish this.

The first step was to check the current version on the machine. So I needed to know the exact name of the package. In order to locate the name of the package I used the search function in apt. This returns matching packages with exact name and a short description...

So I just got my first "personalized letter from Santa" spam e-mail. That's when I know it's the holiday season.

I thought this might make a good discussion. At what point do you say to yourself "It's that time of year again." ?

I've heard through the grapevine that IE8 is the last version of the IE browser. Is microsoft throwing in the towel?

They've got to be coming up with a replacement. Some are claiming that Microsoft will go with WebKit, which, thanks to the popularity of Apple's Safari browser and also Google's Chrome, is rapidly becoming a standard for all non-IE and non-Firefox implementations.

Others say that that the whole WebKit story is merely a feint and that Microsoft will...

Pretty funny stuff, in a sad sort of way.

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...8-0079764bb001

I can't believe that people fall for this. Why would Microsoft call someone to tell them they have a virus? Although, the script they use is somewhat humorous.
"Are you online now?" - followed by "Is your computer running slowly?"

The sad part is that I have a mother in law...