[TechRepublic] Winners in our Server Room Nightmare Challenge 2010

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Server Room Nightmare Challenge 2010 winners announced Bill Detwiler asked TR members to submit their photos of nightmare server rooms they've encountered. TechRepublic editors picked our top three, but it was hard! Read more Real-world server room nightmares Resource of the day Free Trial Download: up.time Systems Management Software Easily manage, measure, and monitor all your physical, virtual, and cloud assets across platforms, applications, domains, and multiple datacenters. Additional TechRepublic resources   Video: Five mistakes to avoid when supporting smartphones and mobile devices Bill Detwiler outlines five mistakes that IT departments should avoid when supporting smartphones and mobile devices. Read more Pop Quiz: Command-line network troubleshooting tools Do you know the difference between ping and traceroute? Take this short quiz and test your knowledge of command-line networking utilities. Read more Pop Quiz: Malware terms and definitions How much do you know about the different types of malware? Take this short quiz and test your knowledge of malware terms and definitions. Read more Poll Results: After a year in the wild are you ready to deploy Windows 7? See how your TechRepublic peers answered this question: After a year in the wild are you ready to deploy Windows 7? Read more Display Word's gridlines Use Word's gridlines to position text and objects. Read more 10 ways to destroy your management career Your career can survive a few missteps -- in fact, what you learn from your mistakes can fuel your progress. But certain errors are guaranteed to blow your aspirations to smithereens. Here are 10 mistakes to avoid at all costs. Read more Photos: Tools to optimize your desktop experience Track down issues that cause slower boot times Apple MacBook Air Teardown (13-inch 2010) Apple MacBook Air Teardown (2010 11-inch) Marking 10 years aboard the International Space Station (photos) Featured multimedia   Zombie Survival Guide Scanner app for iPhone and iPod Touch The same Max Brooks who gave us "The Zombie Survival Guide" now gives us a free app that will help you survive the zombie apocalypse. View on site Logitech Revue (Google TV): photos The Logitech Revue with Google TV is loaded with potentially game-changing functionality, but its high price, numerous caveats, and current assortment of bugs makes it best-suited to early adopters--at least until promised firmware fixes become available. View on site Motorola Flipout (photos) The Motorola Flipout exceeds on some levels, but its unique design doesn't do it any favors as a touch-screen smartphone. View on site Featured Webcast Lighten your IT impact on the environment As awareness grows of global warming and pollution grows, more businesses are taking action to lighten their environmental impact. Learn which strategies IT managers can use to save water, energy and natural resources, reducing environmental harm. IT Help Desk Survival Guide, 3rd Ed.   Have extra budget to spend? Then order TechRepublic's IT Help Desk Survival Guide, Third Edition provides tools and tips to help you better manage help desk services, improve end-user support, troubleshoot hardware issues, identify quick fixes to Windows problems, and help users make the most of Microsoft Office. Order the download today! Today's recommended downloads Time to Virtualize: Get Started With this Guide (VMware) Lighten your IT impact on the environment (Eaton) Share the Ideas and Best Practices of Your IT Peers at Intel (Intel) A Century in Business and Still Open to an Idea from the New Hire (Google) The Best Places to Live are Going Google (Google) End-user bloopers and IT chaos   Computer bloopers and blunders from the technically clueless What not to do in a server room Convicted of endangering their computers? Dirty computers: Revenge of the dust bunnies   Contribute your expertise to an open source textbook The Teaching Open Source project is soliciting contributions for the next edition of its textbook. Maybe you can help -- and get a publication credit on your resume. TechRepublic newsletters   Get IT advice and techniques, mobile news, Mac tips, and product reviews in these TechRepublic newsletters. Automatically sign up today! Five Tips 10 Things Smartphones Macs in Business Product Spotlight Popular space galleries NASA images: Desktop wallpaper from outer space NASA Images: More desktop wallpaper from the space program NASA spacecraft and aircraft in flight Atlantis space shuttle's final mission Close-ups of Mars' surface Connect with TechRepublic

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