Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading!

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×
Windows

Submission + - Training a Help Desk to Support Windows 7 ?

flibbidyfloo writes: My company's help desk is ramping up to begin supporting Windows 7 in a large, globally distributed corporate environment. All of our support is phone-based and uses remote assistance tools when necessary. Most of our twenty-five agents are still on XP or Vista at home, and we'll probably only have it on our work machines a month before the users do. They need training from basic differences up through providing detailed troubleshooting assistance. Of course our budget is pretty limited, and I've been tasked with finding training materials we can use to get the desk up to speed.

What are good sources for training beyond what we can get for free from Microsoft, which seems mostly targeted at the end-user. I'm looking for both computer-based materials and "train-the-trainer" stuff I can use to prepare for my classroom.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Says No to Paying Bug Bounties (threatpost.com)

Trailrunner7 writes: Microsoft has no plans to follow in the footsteps of Mozilla and Google and pay researchers cash rewards for the bugs that they find in Microsoft's products.

In the wake of both Mozilla and Google significantly increasing their bug bounties to the $3,000 range, there have been persistent rumors in the security community that Microsoft soon would follow suit and start paying bounties as well. However, a company official said on Thursday that Microsoft was not interested in paying bounties.

"We value the researcher ecosystem, and show that in a variety of ways, but we don’t think paying a per-vuln bounty is the best way. Especially when across the researcher community the motivations aren’t always financial. It is well-known that we acknowledge researcher’s contributions in our bulletins when a researcher has coordinated the release of vulnerability details with the release of a security update," Microsoft's Jerry Bryant said.

X

Journal Journal: FVWM - Crystal

So there I was, using Enlightenment for the past few years, when suddenly I found my self at the website for FVWM-Crystal. Link
Television

Journal Journal: Everybody loves Raymond, including me.

I don't really understand the whole purpose of it, but I find myself hopelessly addicted to syndicated episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond. Everyday when i come home, I turn the tube over to channel 8 and stare at the screen for an hour of laughter and mayhem. I don't think there's a cure, is there?
Wireless Networking

Journal Journal: WiFi for dummies

Isn't it great when users call you and ask "Hey, when are we getting wireless in-house?" and you have to explain (again) that due to security issues, and a TOTAL lack of necessity, we won't be doing wireless anytime soon?

Slashdot Top Deals

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.

Working...