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Gamers make good employees

Gamers are often stereotyped as lazy, unmotivated slackers. However, a recent article suggests that gamers might actually be learning skills in their online worlds that make them great employees. Read more

Resource of the day

Improving Airflow in a Raised-Floor Data Center

Perforated tiles on a raised floor deliver unpredictable airflow levels, causing inefficiency and equipment failure. This paper discusses data center design on perforated tile airflow and how to improve airflow predictably.


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Software Downloads

TechRepublic Member | April 08, 2011

WinUtilities Professional Edition 10.0 (Windows)

WinUtilities Pro is an award winning collection of tools to optimize and speed up your system performance. This suite contains utilities to clean the registry, temporary files on your disks, erase your application, and Internet browser history, cache, and cookies. Read more

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Strategies for deploying blade servers in existing data centers

This white paper explains how to select the best power and cooling approach for a successful and predictable blade server deployment. (APC)


New software downloads

 

Genuine Registry Doctor 2.4.4.8 (Windows)

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TeamViewer 6.0.10462 (Windows)

TeamViewer is a simple and fast solution for remote control, desktop sharing, and file transfer that works behind any firewall and NAT proxy. Read more

Remote Power Manager 3.2.3 (Windows)

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UltraVNC 1.0.9.6 (Windows)

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Syslog Center 2.6 (Windows)

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Gladinet Cloud Desktop Starter Edition 3.2.607 (Windows)

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Geekend

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Gamers make good employees

Gamers are often stereotyped as lazy, unmotivated slackers. However, a recent article suggests that gamers might actually be learning skills in their online worlds that make them great employees. Read more

Curiosity seeks clues to microbial Martian life (photos)

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