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Costing Sun Ray vs Wintel

If you compare the capital cost of a Wintel server and desktop architecture using Dell gear with 22" screens to that of a redundant SPARC/Sun Ray system with 24" screens, the Sun system comes in about $200,000 cheaper for 1,000 users. by Paul Murphy

Tags: Desktop, Wintel, Dell Computer Corp., Staffing, Sun Microsystems Inc., Difference, Sun Ray, Servers, Hardware, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-07-02

WinMerge (exe)

WinMerge is a tool for visual difference display and merging, for both files and directories. WinMerge has Unicode support, Flexible syntax coloring editor, and Windows Shell integration. Regexp filtering for filenames and lines. Side-by-side line difference and highlights differences inside lines. A file map shows the overall file differences in...

Tags: Difference, Thingamahoochie Software, WinMerge, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-06-19

Does computer make any difference in the quality of teen writing?

Amount of writing Quality of writing More/better 41% 29% Less/worse 12 6 Doesn’t make any difference 43 63 Source: Pew Internet Project by NB

Tags: Difference, Computer, Internet, Productivity, NB

Blog posts 2008-05-30

ie7ReplaceTabTitle (zip)

ie7ReplaceTabTitle is an add-on for IE7 that replace Tab Title automatically. For Example: Replace a long name "Microsoft ZZZ" with a short name "MS ZZZ". Replace "ABC - zzz" with "zzz" or "zzz - ABC". ie7ReplaceTabTitle consists of BHOBrowser Helper Objects and the setting application. BHO('ie7ReplaceTabTitleBHO') run with IE7....

Tags: ABC Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Difference, Currach Software, ie7ReplaceTabTitle, ie7Launcher, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Productivity, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Software, Internet

Software downloads 2008-03-06

File Splitter PRO (exe)

File Splitter is a tool that will split large file into pieces of any selected size and - naturally - with the same tool you can merge these pieces back into one large file. One difference between this file splitter and other similar products is that here you can select...

Tags: Difference, Piece, Tool, WonderWebWare, File Splitter, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-02-19

Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Part Deux

Following the benchmarks I carried out last week, I decided that the PC Doc HQ lab rats needed to pull a few all-nighters and carry out some more benchmarking tests on Vista SP1 and XP SP2.  Is it possible to determine conclusively which is the faster, more responsive OS? ...

Tags: Result, Disk, Load, Service Pack 2, Problem, Microsoft Windows Vista, Difference, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Test System, Disk Test, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-02-18

Are AVCHD camcorders the next HD lie?

When I wrote "Don't believe the low bit-rate ‘HD' lie" with a comparison, I had no idea that these compromises in quality would apply to the latest consumer HD camcorder format called AVCHD as well.  When I first read about the AVCHD format with its use of MPEG4-AVC (H.264) video...

Tags: Problem, Camcorder, Video, Difference, Mbps, HD, AVCHD Image, Quality Video Equipment, Corporate Communications, Marketing, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-11

World Time Clock & Map (exe)

Time Zone Map and World Time Clock - online tool showing time zone difference and current local time in major cities around the world. This advanced application is very helpful for travelers who need to know time difference around the world and want to be aware of world time zone...

Tags: Difference, Business Structures, Productivity, Finance

Software downloads 2008-02-11

MySpace: Will its socialist-like approach to its social app developers succeed?

MySpace kicked off its developer program Tuesday by providing API's and development tools to tens of thousands of developers, with some unique diistinctions, and restrictions, that it hopes will result in high quality apps. Developers were invited to its "Sandbox" event in San Francisco to learn more about the...

Tags: Developer, Difference, MySpace, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-06

Vista virtualization: The bigger picture

As Mary Jo Foley noted earlier this week, Microsoft has belatedly gotten around to relaxing its licensing rules so that customers can install any edition of Windows Vista in a virtual machine, including the less expensive Home Basic and Home Premium flavors. I haven't seen anyone document...

Tags: License Agreement, Virtualization, License, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Difference, Hardware, Virtual Machine, Ultimate, Hardware System, VM, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Operating Systems, Software, Security, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Coverity work spun backward

Coverity is doing what we in the South call the Lord's Work, checking major open source code for common problems, helping make things more secure. I just wish headline writers would understand this is a good thing. It's a good thing for open source. ...

Tags: Difference, Coverity, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-09

Compare Two Text Files Software (exe)

Compare Two Text Files Software is a small utility that will compared two text files and highlight the differences in red. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Software, Utility, Difference, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2008-01-03

OverCAD Dwg Compare (exe)

OverCAD Dwg Compare allows you to finds differences between versions of AutoCAD drawings and displays them graphically. Find the differences between two DWG. Display the differences using contrasting colors. Choose your own markup colours. Save the differences to separate files. Synchronism zoom,location. Detail list. Compare specially entities. Save compare result....

Tags: Difference, OverCAD Dwg Compare

Software downloads 2007-12-27

DTM Data Comparer (exe)

DTM Data Comparer is a visual tool to data compare and synchronize. The program successively views the contents of both tables basing on the order of ascending of unique key values and shows differences or creates synchronization script. If Comparer cannot find two records with the same key value, it...

Tags: Difference, Record, DTM Data Comparer, Productivity

Software downloads 2007-12-26

What the heck is the difference among all those Canon ELPHs anyway?

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm a big fan of Canon's Digital ELPH series, but I can't tell you how many times friends have called me from Best Buy in a state of confusion about which one to buy. It's no wonder. Stop into any electronics store...

Tags: Difference, LCD, Canon Inc., Optical Zoom, Optical Zoom Len, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, Janice Chen

Blog posts 2007-12-14

How common are medical kickbacks?

Wright Medical Technology has been subpoenaed in a probe of kickbacks on joint replacement systems going back almost 10 years. (Picture from a fine 1999 article about contracts between consultants and device makers.) The company is best-known for its ads starring former tennis player Jimmy Connors. Yesterday it...

Tags: Device Manufacturer, Patient, Difference, Laser, Wright Medical Technology, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-12-12

Why spam can only be managed, not ended

Years ago when I was still a bit more naive, I thought we could end the spam dilemma if we would simply implement domain-level sender authentication using digital signatures.  In fact when David Berlind wrote  "Why spam could destroy the Internet" in November 2002, Berlind quoted me saying that every...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Difference, Bottom Line, E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-10-26

Did GOOG beat estimates by shortchanging publishing partners?

Last week Google beat financial analyst forecasts and its shares rose. I looked at the third quarter 2007 results, in particular, its traffic acquisition costs TAC, and noticed something very interesting and something which no one else had written about. TAC was 29 per cent of total...

Tags: Revenue, Google Inc., Partnership, Google AdSense, Difference, Operational Accounting, Business Structures, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-10-20

GLproject (zip)

Excel basic spreadsheet for General Ledger and Project controlling. Import General ledger accounts & project bookings : investigate the differences on each account, notice any differences. View, Print & send reports. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Account, Difference, Productivity, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2007-10-04

Jimmy Wales and Enterprise Wikis

At the Summer Davos in Dalian, China, I was able to speak to Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, about wikis in the enterprise. Wikipedia has become not only the world's most popular wiki, but the ninth most popular web site in the world. Jimmy is here as a Young...

Tags: Difference, Wiki, Wikipedia, Enterprise, Jimmy, MediaWiki, JN, JW, Wikia, John Newton

Blog posts 2007-09-14