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- Cox demonstrates political nature of open source
- This week, Alan Cox offered a quick primer on just how political open source remains.Speaking at the London Linuxworld conference, he said something quite obvious. Open source is not inherently more secure than other software. Well, you'd think he just cursed from the way folks went on about this. Here is the...
- Tags: Cox, open source, Alan Cox, Linux
- Blog posts 2006-10-27
- U.K. Linux guru backs GPL 3
- U.K. Linux guru backs GPL 3Does it matter what he thinks?Linus is still the one driving kernel development.And Torvalds is rightDRM is a human behavior, procedural requirement and not operating system internal behavior. OS kernel is about fundamental functions of hardware and their integration to perform tasks. What tasks are...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), OPEN SOURCE, Digital media, software world, Alan Cox, OS Kernel, GPL 3, GPL, digital-rights management, Cox, Linus
- Discussion threads 2006-01-31
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- A 1968 computer demo that changed people's lives
- Can a computer demo change people's lives? I've seen plenty in my time but none that moved me in any significant way. Yet 40 years ago, Doug Engelbart gave a demo that did change people's lives and changed the entire course of computer systems development. On Monday...
- Tags: Mr., Collective Intelligence, Computer, Demo, Productivity, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-12-02
- Secure your computer after a Windows install or reinstall
- Microsoft recommends that you connect to the Internet to get the important security updates and service packs after a fresh install. But the catch-22 is that your computer is more vulnerable until the security updates are installed. Alan Norton details five ways to better secure your computer immediately following a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Security Update, Computer, Alan Norton, Security Administration, Patches, Productivity, Security
- Download resources 2008-11-24
- OS earns highest-ever gov't security rating. Does that make it "most secure?"
- I have to admit that I had never before heard of a certification called EAL6+ High Robustness until the folks at Green Hills Software reached out to tell me that they were about to get it for their operating system, formally called INTEGRITY 178B. EAL6+ High...
- Tags: Security, Certification, Operating System, EAL, Quality, Operating Systems, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Software, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Kindle Economics
- A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...
- Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Microsoft, Creative Financing, and the Bank of EAC
- Microsoft's announcement that it would offer 0% financing to new customers of its Dynamics product line is a welcome offering at a time when the credit crisis requires out-of-the-box solutions to the fact that a bunch of ungrateful banks are unwilling to loan the taxpayer those megabucks we lent them...
- Tags: Bank, Financing, Microsoft Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Services, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Are you being gouged on your cable bill?
- Are you being gouged on your cable bill?cableI was receiving the standard package about 50 channels, costing about 29.99 - in 8 months with no changes the cost escallated to 80.00, they lost a customer, there is no explaination for the cost increase, there is no one checking them either.COX...
- Tags: Network technology, DirectTV, cable, cable company, Cox Cable
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- SAP's UK users don't get it - yet
- The above video shows two interviews I made earlier today. One is with Alan Bowling, chairman SAP user group UK and Ireland. The second is with Ray Wang, VP at Forrester research. SAP's UK users are struggling to understand the price hike in maintenance costs. Users I...
- Tags: SAP AG, KPI, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?
- Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?Dynabook for $100?"I have a dream" Unfortunately like Martin Luther King, Alan Kay's Dynabook is nothing more at this time.I wish it wasn't so but like socialism it requires a level of cooperation at so many levels that in a capitalist society...
- Tags: E-books, Engineering, Dynabook, Alan Kay
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOHow about John McCain?:-)RE: 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOPersonally, I think Gates would be the best choice. He is a visionary. Had his vision years ago, managed to podge together ideas and technology from other sources, and create the Windows empire.The only...
- Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Obama
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- A Kindroid in every pot?
- Fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has written a couple of interesting pieces lately on ways to get cheap ebook readers/tablets into both students' and consumers' hands. In, "Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together" he described how an Android-based Kindle ebook reader could allow this platform to really...
- Tags: Kindroid, E-books, Tablets, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- News to know: Rigged PDFs; Obama's CTO; Android bug; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100? CNET News: Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks Ryan Naraine: Rigged PDFs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, CTO, Adobe PDF, E-waste, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?
- The Dynabook. Source: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Alan Kay, XEROX PARC 1968. November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and...
- Tags: Device, Student, Alan Kay, Dynabook, E-books, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- Solera Networks - a different take on management and security
- I was contacted recently by an old acquaintence, Alan Hall, formally from Novell and now with Solera Networks. Hmm. That didn't come out right. Alan is someone I've known for a while. I'm not saying he's old. Alan wanted me to hear about a different way to...
- Tags: Security, Network, Network Traffic, Analysis, Alan, Solera Networks Technology, Packet Capture, Networking, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Google calls it quits on the Yahoo ad deal; Will Microsoft enter the picture?
- Google calls it quits on the Yahoo ad deal; Will Microsoft enter the picture?M$ agents sabotaged the dealM$ agents infiltrated the DOJ and Wall Street to kill this deal and expand M$ monopolistic and corrupt power.Microsoft wants two things from Yahoo:... search share and content management. A deal which...
- Tags: Real estate, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Election Day '08: Where to get live results
- Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsthose are all biased toward obamawatch the real news atwww.johnmccain.comor www.foxnews.comThe rest are unreliable or in bed with the liberals.RE: Election Day '08: Where to get live resultsKudos to the first person who responded, obviously an intelligent and well informed voter. To the...
- Tags: Well Let, Election Day, John McCain
- Discussion threads 2008-11-04
- Rio Grande - an Egenera customer profile
- I recently had the opportunity to hear from Danny Cox, CFO of the Bell Group Rio Grande. He spent a few moments sharing his experiences with PAN Manager from Egenera. I've watched Egenera for quite some time and am happy to have had a chance to learn from someone using...
- Tags: Blade, Personal Area Network, Egenera Inc., Rio Grande, Danny, Bluetooth, Servers, Wireless, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.
- Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.Cox in Rhode IslandFor the most part, I'm satisfied with the cost and the speed. I pay $41.99 per month and get about 7 Mbps on my down pipe. However, their email servers are frequently down....
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Marketing research, Comcast Corp., survey, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-11-02
- Survey reveals favorite ISPs around the United States. None of them is Comcast.
- The heart of any wireless network is its Internet connection, since sharing Web access among multiple computers is one of its most if not the most important tasks. While its best known for conducting user surveys among car buyers, J.D. Power also measures user satisfaction with broadband ISPs around the...
- Tags: J.D. Power Associates, EarthLink Inc., Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Survey, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cable, Network Technology, Internet, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-11-02
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