Shane Schick

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Articles by Shane Schick

YouTube Fridays: An IT pro applies for work on camera

I'm sure it's not the first time it's been done, but Jeffrey White's approach to finding his next job is certainly a little more...

Nearly half of all IT projects killed off early

Industry group ISACA releases a survey that shows technology professionals struggling to keep up with business changes and delivering what was promised. Check out the other three reasons for failure

Curse of the data centre drones

You can’t really blame people for not wanting to work in a data centre. They’re often cold, full of malfunctioning equipment and thisclose to...

XP SP3 update corrupts Windows registry, users claim

An update from Computerworld U.S.:Symantec Corp. today denied that its consumer security software,including Norton Internet Security and Norton 360, is to blame forwreaking havoc...

Gross! A computer cleaner dishes the dirt

Jacqueline Miller is on a one-woman quest to educate companies about the germs they leave on their keyboards, mice and phones. She tells ComputerWorld Canada why IT departments should be the first to clean up their act

HP-EDS and the effect on Canada’s CGI

I was out of town and off-duty when HP bought EDS for US$13 billion last week, and the first person I thought of was...

A woman who made her way in a computer world

I can count on one hand the number of times my mother accessed the Internet, and I’d still have a few fingers left over....

XP SP3 cripples some PCs with endless reboots

More from Gregg Keizer of ComputerWorld U.S.:Installing Windows XP Service Pack 3 sends some PCs into an endlessseries of reboots, according to posts to...

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