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- Girls are as smart as boys, but tests are getting dumber
- New research published in the journal Science confirms what all of us teachers have known for a long time: girls are just as smart as boys. I hope none of our tax dollars went into that one. A quick quote from the article before I get into the...
- Tags: Test, Teacher, Hyde, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux
- Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...
- Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Twelve best practices for online customer communities
- One of the more significant Web 2.0 trends in business this year has been the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online. Far from the cynical marketing ploy that it...
- Tags: Community, Best Practice, Customer Community, Deloitte, Community Management, Marketing Research, Social Networking, Marketing, Online Communications, Advertising & Promotion, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP
- 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPMy takeI don't count security patches, but I regularly have to clean malware from our XP machines but have yet to find anything on our Vista systems.RE: 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPFile this in the "no...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista, secure, Microsoft Windows XP, VISTA IS
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Software makers may sue eBay
- Tired of being "stiff-armed" by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on...
- Tags: Software, Software Information Industry Association, eBay Inc., Tiffany, Tools & Techniques, Piracy, Sales Strategy, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched
- Digital media delivery firm RealNetworks has shipped a high-prority patch to cover four gaping holes in its flagship RealPlayer software, warning that the vulnerabilities could put users at risk of code execution attacks. The patch comes a few hours after Secunia released an advisory warning for one...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., RealNetworks RealPlayer, Digital Music, Digital Media, Security, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet
- Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletI WANT ONE!!Dang, I'd buy it in a heart beat. I already have an iPod Touch love it and getting ready to buy an iPhone.RE: Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletMay sound very nice, but unfortunately, like all Apple things, it will probably...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Mystery Solved, iTablet
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Cool Tools - Slingpage extends stickies and sharing to Firefox users
- Slingpage, which announced its social browsing extension for Internet Explorer last month, will introduce an equally feature-rich version of its service to Mozilla Firefox users next week. Slingpage offers a way for Web surfers to find information about favorite topics via "Slingcast" feeds as well as create...
- Tags: Monitor, Mozilla Firefox, Note, Tool, Slingpage, Web Browsers, Monitors & Displays, Internet, Hardware, Components, Jennifer Leggio
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayerDefinition of PoC?Forgive my ignorance when using vulnerability speak, but what does PoC stand for? I thought at first it might mean Point of Contact, but I figured I might as well ask.RE: Black Hat webcastThe Black Hat conference organisers really should know...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, SECURITY, PoC, RealNetworks RealPlayer, buffer-overflow, RealNetworks Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- A Friday Active Directory puzzler
- We just purchased a new server for our district's central office. Nothing super-special, just a Windows Server 2003 for compatibility with a payroll and HRM application install with lots of storage and a moderately speedy quad-core Xeon. The existing server is out of space, out of resources, recently...
- Tags: Domain, User Profile, Servers, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Heap-based buffer overflow reported in RealNetworks RealPlayer
- Update 07/25/2008: Aaron Portnoy of TippingPoint's security research group was kind enough to point out that I'm actually not affected by this, since I've installed the newest version of RealPlayer. From Aaron's email: Notice the Secunia advisory states it affects RealPlayer 10.5... the latest is 11.x, which now uses...
- Tags: Vulnerability, RealNetworks Inc., Buffer-overflow, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Secunia Research, Vendor, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Gateway stops selling PCs direct
- Gateway, one of the early PC makers that sold their wares direct, said Friday it will sell its systems completely through channel partners and retailers. The company, now a part of Acer, said shifting to a channel-based distribution model will simplify its business and cut costs. ...
- Tags: Gateway Inc., PC, Acer Inc., Retail, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity
- Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T
- Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-TWHAT???So they let the app slide for two years until they launch their own competing version that proves to be a fraction as popular, THEN they go after these guys cuz their own app can't cut it?I call bullspit!If it was a rights infringement, they should have...
- Tags: Games, Scrabble-Scrabulous, Facebook, patent, game
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?
- If Xen and KVM are free, why do VMware and Microsoft get all of the press?Different goals, maybe. Similar imperatives, yes.While the open source community is driven by solving mutual problems and then making the solutions available to everyone, if open source communities hope to make inroads into large organizations,...
- Tags: Desktops, Xen, VMware Inc., open-source community, open source, Microsoft Corp., Hyper-V
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blameI think click fraud is more...prevalent than even what is reported. I don't believe that many people actually click on Internet advertising. I believe companies are wasting their marketing budget on Internet advertising.I have never clicked on an Internet...
- Tags: Internet, Internet advertising, click fraud, advertisement
- Discussion threads 2008-07-25
- Click fraud in 2nd quarter of 2008 more sophisticated, botnets to blame
- Whereas the overall click fraud rate isn't increasing, it's not decreasing either, remaining flat for the first two quarters of 2008, according to data gathered from the Click Fraud Network, consisting of more than 4,000 online advertisers and agencies. Click Forensics report for the second quarter of 2008, indicates that...
- Tags: Click Fraud, RK West, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
- This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp job boundaries. by Paul Murphy
- Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
- Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop
- Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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