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The board of directors of SBC Communications agreed to purchase AT&T in a $16 billion transaction that creates a global communications powerhouse providing residential voice, data and video along with advanced networking services to businesses. The mostly stock transaction, which was announced early Monday, marks the end of AT&T’s storied history as an independent company […]

The man convicted of authoring the Blaster worm has been sentenced to 18 months in jail and 10 months of community service. Jeffrey Lee Parson admitted to writing the Blaster-B worm, which the prosecution claimed infected 48,000 computers and caused $1.2 million in damage back in the late summer of 2003. Before reaching a plea […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A gathering of Wi-Fi vendors always means a lot to take in, but only a handful of companies continue to truly innovate and bring something new to the table. That handful, narrowed down from an exhaustive list of potential winners, is what makes up the best on the show floor at […]

Author: Eugenio TalaricoPlatform: Windows Type: VB Script Description: A BAT file that moves a computer from CN=COMPUTERS to ANOTHER that you have to specify in the VBS file. You have to specify the list of the computers you want to move in INPUT.TXT: ”***************************************************************************** ”* INTO STRVARIABL LINE PUT THE PATH WHERE THE object will […]

Want to share a script? Click here to contribute! Author: Shane Boudreaux – sboudrea [at] tulane [dot] edu Platform: Windows Type: Windows Script Description: If you normally have a static IP address but have to use DHCP at home or in other places, it is quite frustrating to have to go through all of the […]

Author: Eugenio TalaricoPlatform: Windows Type: VBScript DESCRIPTION: You can use to create multiple groups into OU=GROUPS using this line in a batch file: for /F “tokens=1-2 usebackq delims=;” %%1 in (input.txt) do ( cscript NewGroups.vbs %%1 %%2 //B //Nologo >> err_log.txt 2>>&1 ) The context of the input file is name_of_the_groups;comment Scroll down to view […]

The bulk of overseas hiring will be in support of overseas markets, not new offshoring, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. U.S. multinational companies will continue to expand overseas over the next 12 months, but the great majority of new jobs outside the U.S. will serve expanding overseas markets and will not be jobs transferred offshore from the […]

The Federal Trace Commission Wednesday passed a rule calling for all pornographic spam to carry a warning label. Now all spam that contains sexually explicit material must include the label ”Sexually Explicit” in the subject line. Spammers who don’t follow the new law will face fines, civil law suits, and criminal penalties, including imprisonment and […]

By Sean Michael Kerner TORONTO — Government IT organizations and corporate enterprises that have to manage increasing requirements with decreasing budgets have an ally in Linux, an HP told attendees of the Real World Linux show Wednesday. “Linux’s killer app is not Apache, it’s cost,” HP’s C.J. Coppersmith, HP’s director of Linux strategy, said. “The […]

In its monthly job-cut report released today, global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said the March figure is 12% lower than the 77,250 cuts in February and is 20% lower than the 85,396 cuts announced in March a year ago. In the first quarter, job cuts totaled 262,840, which is 28% lower than the […]