James Gaskin
NetWare, NOS utilities and SOHO hardware and software
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James E. Gaskin writes books, articles, columns, and jokes about technology. As a network consultant in the Dallas area, Gaskin has helped scores of companies untangle their problems with NetWare, NetWare-to-Unix integration and Internet access.
As an author, Gaskin has helped people all over learn the technical issues about computers and networking, as well as how to better deal with the people sitting in front of those computers. Titles include:
- NetWare to Internet Gateways, Prentice Hall
- IntranetWare BorderManager, Sybex
- Mastering NetWare 6, Mastering NetWare 5.1, Mastering NetWare 5
- Poser's Guide to the Internet and WWW
- The Complete Guide to NetWare 4.11/IntranetWare, Sybex
- Corporate Politics and the Internet: Connection Without Controversy, Prentice Hall
You can reach him at james@gaskin.com.
Recent tests and articles by James Gaskin:
Regaining Control | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 31, 2008
One of the reasons I say Technology Is Broken is because computers do so many annoying and time wasting things. Well, they doing something annoying, and we have to waste time fixing them.
That's why 5 Smart Fixes for ...
Share Your Laptop Tricks | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 30, 2008
If you're one of those who live with their laptop, share one of your secrets. How do you disguise the laptop when traveling, or do you? Do you have any anti-theft tricks you can share?
Backup for laptops, especially ...
Buddy Bling | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 29, 2008
Social networks, primarily FaceBook and MySpace for the younger set, and LinkedIn for business people, seem to be growing faster than home foreclosure rates. That's a good thing, or at least it will be in ten years or ...
More Solid State Drive Info | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 28, 2008
This article copied over from MacWorld talks about the Solid State Disk (SSD) that's an option on the new MacBook Air. There's a little more depth than in the post I made 10 days ago.
The details about the new disk ...
Advice from Big IT | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 25, 2008
Big companies were once small, and small companies want to be big. Hence the advice from big company IT experts will help small companies. At least that's the idea behind the story “Big IT to small biz: Listen up, ...
New Vista Promises | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 24, 2008
Microsoft took their lumps from press and customers about Vista, something that happens with all their new operating systems. But they usually redeem themselves somewhat with the first Service Pack, called SP1. These ...
Donating Computers | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 23, 2008
What may be an old computer to you may be a treasure to someone else. Linda Musthaler lists some good donation options here, along with business steps for tracking and accounting for those donations.
Don't listen to ...
Another Wandering Laptop | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 21, 2008
Can you say Court Martial? The Royal Navy can, and has, about an officer who lost or let a valuable laptop be stolen. That laptop contained personal information on about 600,000 people, many of whom are not in the ...
Movie Fun | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 18, 2008
It's Friday, so let's lighten up and have a little fun. This story about the upcoming movie Jumper talks about teleportation and how MIT professors feel about it. As you would expect, the answer is not too exciting. ...
More Free Programs | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 17, 2008
PC World does another roundup in 14 Fantastic Freeware Finds for us. Do you ever wonder why programmers write programs for free? Sometimes they need to scratch an itch, and realize others may have that same itch. ...
Thin and Solid State | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 16, 2008
First CES, the giant Consumer Electronics Show, then MacWorld, starts each new year off with a trade show bang. It's hard to tell which one generates more excitement, although MacFans eagerly flock to San Francisco ...
Personal Disaster Recovery | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 14, 2008
My in-laws returned from church Sunday to find visitors waiting: four fire trucks. Their home and contents are a complete loss, including computers. Financial records of all kinds are gone or damaged. We haven't been ...
Collaboration Can Be Chaotic | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 11, 2008
Computers are logical and do what they're told, but people don't. Collaboration projects at work fail not because of the technical tools, but because of management heavy-handedness or poor planning. This article ...
Ultra Mobile PC Report | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 10, 2008
PCWorld has a nice story from CES called The UMPC: Still Evolving! Still Pointless! Why? Because Windows running on a pocketable device means a small screen and tiny keyboard. How can you treat that like a PC?
The ...
Year of Linux Desktops? | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 09, 2008
Once again, it's the year of the Linux Desktop. Actually, it might be the eighth Year of Linux Desktops, because I stopped counting. However, I have shifted my main work machine from one running Windows XP to two ...
100 Million Vista Users? | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 07, 2008
Bill Gates, during his annual opening speech at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, claimed there are now 100 million Vista users. According to this story in ComputerWorld, he didn't offer any details ...
Hello Houston | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 03, 2008
Next Tuesday, January 8th, I'll be speaking to the NSTA (National Space and Technology Association) at their lunch meeting (details here). The meeting is at the Canyon Cafe, 5000 Westheimer Road (across from Galleria ...
Laptop Safety | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 03, 2008
If you read my earlier post about All Purpose Laptops and ran out and bought one, or maybe bought one just before the end of the year, let me ask a few questions. I'm working on some laptop safety guidelines now, and ...
Welcome Back | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 02, 2008
Now that the holidays are over, except for some executives who have yet to return to work, we can start planning to make 2008 better than 2007. We should have been planning this long ago, of course, but last month at ...
Downloadable Winners | NetworkWorld.com Community
Jan. 01, 2008
Preston Gralla over at PC World put together a great list of useful files to download here. I use several of the programs regularly, including IrfanView and CCleaner. If you want to run Launchy, note that the domain ...
Make Your Own 2007 Lists | NetworkWorld.com Community
Dec. 31, 2007
2007 Best and Worst lists clutter every type of media, including our Web pages. These are fun, but they don't help you directly unless you do some work on your own. Since you're in the office on New Years Eve and ...
Dead Week Games #2 | NetworkWorld.com Community
Dec. 28, 2007
Now that you finished the projects you had, and still no one has come back to work, the days get long for us Short Straw People. Dead Week crawls by, and we're still stuck working.
Did you know Windows automatically ...
Dead Week Games #1 | NetworkWorld.com Community
Dec. 27, 2007
If you're reading this, you're probably working this Dead Week as well – the time between Christmas and New Years. I call us the “Short Straw People” because we drew the short straw and had to keep working when ...
Let the Wrapups Continue | NetworkWorld.com Community
Dec. 26, 2007
This week will be filled with stories about the best and worst events and products from the past year. You may already be tired of these, but I'm not. PCWorld has a nice Year in Tech roundup posted the 25th.
Of ...
Startups to Watch | NetworkWorld.com Community
Dec. 24, 2007
While the focus of this article is tech startups aimed at enterprises, advancements in communications and data management at the enterprise flow down to small and medium businesses pretty quickly today. Take a look at ...
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