IDG Contributor Network: How HP leads in sustainability through innovation, partnership and sharing

[Disclosure: HP is a client of the author.]

This week I was in Nashville where HP showcased their sustainability efforts. While this push goes back to David Packard, one of the founders of HP, itevolved over the years. The latest changes & made with the help of Ingrid Sinclair, the charismatic president of SIMS Metal Management & have made it even more impressive.

What makes it different isn&t just that ita sincere effort (as opposed to most of the others I&ve reviewed, which seem more like marketing exercises) but how HP & like Mercedes Benz does with safety in cars & is sharing what they&re doing with other major companies both inside and outside of tech segment.

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AppleCatalyst will help bring Macs to the enterprise

With the launch of macOS Catalina, the promised wave of iPad-derived Catalyst appshas begun with a twinkle at enterprise Mac deployments.

Catalyst is a work in progress

Having toyed a little with some of these apps, I think it's fair to describe Catalyst as a work in progress.While it makes it easier for developers to migrate iPad appsto the Mac, there are some inconsistencies. But it looks like Apple is aware of these and is committed to meeting those challenges.

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This $31 bundle will prepare you for Cisco's CCENT, CCNA, and CCNP exams

Certified IT professionals are a staple of any growing business because they manage and secure network infrastructures. However, there are many IT vendors, each with their own proprietary technologies, so if you to pursue a career in IT, you&ll need to decide which vendor to specialize in. Cisco is one of the biggest vendors on the market, and its technology is used in companies all around the world, and you can learn what it takes to become Cisco-certified for just $31.

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Microsoft pushes, then yanks, rogue kinda-security patch KB 4523786, ostensibly for Autopilot

Letput this in perspective.

Microsoft warned us at the beginning of the Win10 onslaught four-plus years ago that it wouldn&t dole out patches one by one. Except for emergency security fixes, patches would be released as part of cumulative updates. Over the years, that promise has evolved into a common pace of two cumulative updates per month: the first on Patch Tuesday, and a second &optional, non-security& cumulative update sometime later in the month.

Itone of the ways &Windows as a service& is a service, doncha know.

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Name game

This pilot fish builds a lot of Linux systems that have to be compliant with U.S. Department of Defense/Defense Information Systems Agency STIG security requirements, but he tries to lessen the pain by assigning root passwords that are secure but easily remembered. Naturally, he sends them to the owner via encrypted email.

When the Nvidia driver in one of those machines gets corrupted after the system goes down hard in a power outage, fish needs root access to reinstall the driver. Unfortunately, the user of that machine (who, just incidentally, had ignored the warnings about that plannedpower outage) has no recollection of the root password, and he can&t get it from his email. Why? He has uninstalled all his old encryption certs, so older encrypted emails can no longer be decrypted.

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12 blockchain-related jobs to consider in 2020

For more than a year, blockchain management and development has topped some lists of the hottest skills in the IT job market, and thousands of blockchain jobs in the U.S. are now up for grabs.

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