Panopticlick: How Unique and Trackable is your Browser?

What fingerprints does your browser leave behind as you surf the web?

Traditionally, people assume they can prevent a website from identifying them by disabling cookies on their web browser. Unfortunately, this is not the whole story.

When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information [...]

Pre-screening IT Engineer job applicants

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Polymorphic Nature of Knowledge

“Knowledge is a polymorphic concept” (Moteleb & Bakry 2004). Knowledge, information, and data are different facets to the same thing. One thing could mean data in a certain context and the same thing could mean information or knowledge in different contexts.

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Ontology of KMS Elements

Knowledge management often refers to various theories and definitions. However, there is a lack of consensus on what exactly knowledge management is and what constitutes a knowledge management system.

Full Article at the source: Ontology of KMS Elements.

Swim lane – in Business Process Management

Swim lane

A swim lane (or swimlane) is a visual element used in process flow diagrams that depict what or who is working on a particular subset of a process. Swim lanes are arranged either horizontally or vertically and are used for grouping the sub-processes according to the responsibilities of those swim lanes. [...]

PDCA – Plan Do Check Act

PDCA (plan-do-check-act) is an iterative four-step problem-solving process typically used in business process improvement. It is also known as the Deming cycle, Shewhart cycle, Deming wheel, or plan-do-study-act.

PLAN

Establish the objectives and processes necessary to deliver results in accordance with the expected output. By making the expected output the focus, it differs [...]

How to obtain and install an SSL/TLS certificate, for free

How to obtain and install an SSL/TLS certificate, for free

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https accesses now the default for Gmail

Gmail now is always using the secure https protocol. Great for privacy especially for personal emails accessed from work. Yet it poses a challenge to corporate censorship.

via Default https access for Gmail.

How SMBs Should Be Getting Started with Virtualization | Blogs | ITBusinessEdge.com

How SMBs Should Be Getting Started with Virtualization

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Store and share files in the cloud with Google Docs

Let’s say you’re about to make a very important presentation to a prospective client on the other side of the country. Before you depart on your business trip, you download all of your presentation materials and InDesign® hand-outs onto your trusty thumbdrive. Just in case, you also email the files to yourself.

But [...]