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Oracle on the psychology of patching

Oracle has a belated reply to a survey a few weeks back on how database administrators have never installed one of the company's critical patch updates. In a blog post Oracle's Eric Maurice faults the survey for relying on a small sample size--not that it stopped us...

Tags: Psychology, Oracle Corp., Problem, ROI, Eric Maurice, Roi/Tco, Marketing Research, Security, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Personality Psychology Pro (zip)

Personality Psychology Pro is a huge pack of personality tests and games presented in a pleasant/funny way. By these psychology tests and games you can realize much more about yourself and about your companion sexual partner. You can analyze your personality and find out what is on your mind. You...

Tags: Psychology, Personality Psychology Pro, Games, Business Structures, Personal Technology, Finance

Software downloads 2006-02-21

Student's Guide to APA Psychology (zip)

The Student's Guide to APA Psychology shows how to document and format research papers in the style of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychologist. Revised and updated to the new 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual. The free file uses the Windows Help reader already installed on...

Tags: Psychology, Student, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2001-12-08

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Study: Cell phones distract drivers more than passengers do

According to a new study, it's more distracting to have Paris Hilton's Sidekick in the car than it is to have Paris herself. Sorry, Paris. Cell phones distract car drivers more than talkative passengers -- and hands-free devices don't make for safer driving, according...

Tags: Car, Phone, Driver, Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-01

There's something nasty lurking beyond the horizon - notes on life in Silicon Valley

It feels as if our economic version of Hurricane Katrina is building up energy, just off the coast of Silicon Valley. There is a definite feeling of something huge and nasty lurking just over the horizon. It's an ominous feeling highlighted by the fact that we...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Financial, Recession, Industry, Chip, Financial Crisis, VC, Capital Efficiency, Sequoia RIP Powerpoint Presentation, Public Relations, Web 2.0, Semiconductors, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Hardware, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Will the economic downturn have a negative effect on open source?

Will the economic downturn have a negative effect on open source?First Vote!... and, as usual, the mathematical geniuses who coded the stupid poll function manage to give 100% to yes, 100% to no. Neat trick, that.Positive effectBy participating in open source projects, unemployed programmers can keep their skills up...

Tags: Development tools, open source, programmer, negative effect

Discussion threads 2008-10-22

ZDNet blogger: working from home

More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...

Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-10-06

More on Microsoft's PC ads

More on Microsoft's PC adsPaul, ... meet the herd.Microsoft is simply issuing soothing tones to a herd. Most don't really want leave the herd, but there are a couple of much smaller herds making some claims about greener grass, and the Microsft herd simply needs a little soothing re-assurance.Your mistake...

Tags: Group Membership, Third-party endorsement, advertisement, Microsoft Corp., herd, Apple Inc., PC

Discussion threads 2008-09-27

How big the Google open source credibility gap

How big the Google open source credibility gapSame script, different actorsEveryone hates "the king of the hill." Once upon a time, Microsoft was David and the Goliath was IBM... and everyone was filled with schadenfreude as IBM lost control of the PC market hardware and wound up seriously restructuring its...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google open source credibility gap, IBM Corp., open source

Discussion threads 2008-09-22

Apple mega-patch covers 34 Mac OS X security issues

Apple mega-patch covers 34 Mac OS X security issuesSome third-party components.Most people don't use "some" to describe half.RE: Apple mega-patch covers 34 Mac OS X security issuesApple Slow to protect their DRM supporters Thanks but no thanks we Run Linux here.No Exploits? Who Even Would Know?Some Apple apologist will likely...

Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, mega-patch cover, Apple Macintosh, Mac OS X security, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, security, virus

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

What's on Obama's iPod?

What's on Obama's iPod?Stupidity at its bestIf you don’t think every song on his ipod, if he really even owns one, isn’t a political calculation then you are a fool. At this stage of the game, I am sure their staffers are a picking every aspect of...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Obama, Apple iPod

Discussion threads 2008-09-02

UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployed

UK CS graduates more likely to be unemployedIf you're any good, I wouldn't worry about itMy first question is whether that study takes into account whether people were employed in their actual field of study?Ie, does a job at McDonalds classify as being 'employed' or does every psychology major actually...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Development tools, C/C++, job, hardware

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

My Awesome IT Job: IT Service Manager, University of Illinois

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: University Of Illinois, Information Technology, Service Manager, E-mail, Strategy, Storage, Online Communications, Management, Hardware, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-08-15

Should colleges really teach hacking?

Should colleges really teach hacking?Bartending SchoolIn the mid-70's I took one of those vocational courses you see advertised on late-night TV: "Learn to be a Bartender in One Week". Although I never used it (I went at night, which takes 2 weeks and over the weekend I got my...

Tags: Food & Beverage, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Tools & Techniques, beverage, hacking, chemistry

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Traffic Psyche (zip)

Traffic Psyche helps you build your real, natural traffic to your blog by using a social psychology approach. Use with one of the biggest blog community, BlogCatalog.com it helps you build your own community with ease. It automatically add friends, join neighborhoods, surf pages and Web sites, give rating, and...

Tags: community, blog, nusaxcess resources, blogging, web site development, web technology, internet

Software downloads 2008-08-05

FCC set to slap Comcast's wrist

It's almost official. In the latest step forward, a majority of FCC commissioners voted Friday to "affirm" a complaint against Comcast for blocking BitTorrent traffic, the Washington Post reports, although the punishment is likely to be a "slap on the wrist," according to one analyst. The final...

Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Republican, Wrist, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-30

The Philosophy of the Good (exe)

The Philosophy of the Good is a free e-book including an Anthology of essays on a new Philosophy concerning the ancient concept of the GOOD. These essays cover religion, philosophy, psychology, social theory and social comment. If the e-book cannot be read on your computer because of system incompatabilities the...

Tags: Essay, Caius Ebook, E-books, Channel Management, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-25

Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?

Does Apple need to announce a post Steve Jobs plan?The perception is ...... Apple can't be great without Steve Jobs. I personally don't feel this is necessarily the case even though when Jobs was ousted proved to be a disastrous decision for Apple.Apple is in a strong growth period and...

Tags: Quality, Desktops, Digital media, Steve J, Apple Inc., Steve Jobs

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Improve your UI by expressing time effectively

Your user interface may convey time for various reasons, such as through progress indicators that tell users how long they have to wait for an operation to complete. This chapter from Designing and Engineering Time: The Psychology of Time Perception in Software looks at the different ways you can...

Tags: Addison-Wesley, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Marketing

Book chapters 2008-07-17

Your correspondence so far

It's been just over a month now since I started writing here, and it's certainly been an interesting one. I've had many emails over the last month asking me this, that and the other, not even a single death threat yet! I'd like to share some questions and my answers...

Tags: Web Server, Operating System, Server, Microsoft Corp., Q., E-mail, Web Servers, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Internet, Software, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2008-06-29