Its Monday and we need to do something a little bit practical today. Now I understand that you have gotten a huge benefit from the first three parts. But now we need to do something today and start looking for immediate hard dollar savings. We are going to look at your printer infrastructure.

Today is Sunday, our third article in this series of helping the CIO or IT manager cut costs in the current economic crisis. Our goal is to maintain or improve the service levels we provide to our customers. We are not here to be a big bad wolf with a budget axe and just hack and slash at things. We have already talked about reviewing what your people do in part I, and in part II going to work on Saturdays to improve yourself. Today is Sunday and like a large percentage of the population, it is a religious day.

Every day this month we will focus on steps you can take to help manage and reduce the costs in your IT environment for the remainder of 2008 and help with your planning for 2009. Today’s tip - Saturday workers

It’s the third quarter, the economy is tight, or really bad, depending upon your industry and sector. What is the CIO and IT manager to do? Start looking for ways to cut costs while keeping or improving on the efficiency of your IT operations.

Today, Microsoft formally announced the Windows 7 operating system during the PDC Professional Developers Conference. Why announce an operating system at the PDC? Developers are on long build cycles for applications. The sooner their projects can get the details of what is going to be included in Windows 7, the sooner their applications can run on Windows 7. Application comptability is a major driver for operating system adoption.

Yet another virus warning thread is floating around the Internet claiming the authenticity of CNN, Microsoft, and anti virus software companies. There are several variations on this virus from hoax to real. Lets take it safe and step by step:

This security update is so easy to fix you need to just do it now. Head over to the Wordpress 2.6.3 update page, read the details on the vulnerability in the Snoopy library and the download 2 files http://wordpress.org/development/2008/10/wordpress-263/ You can then drop class-snoopy.php and version.php directly into your wp-includes/ folder and be up to date.

Do you need to learn more about archiving and journaling for your Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 Server environment? One of the functions of email archiving is to free up storage space on email servers. But unfortunately first-generation archiving methods of capturing and archiving the email information can cause significant problems. These first-generation solutions typically capture email and attachments from Exchange through journaling and replace them with a stub file or link. Stubbing frees up substantial disk space, but causes a new problem -- slow and sluggish Exchange performance.

How do you add an image to the WordPress image.php main page - aka the loop? Its actually very simple. You have two choices available to you -- when you write a page or post add an entry in the custom fields and then call that in your code. Or add the image to the media library and then call it via programming.