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- Air as a building material
- I'm not sure I would like to live in such a house, but the concept is appealing. Californian architects have built the 'home of the future,' and it is portable and inflatable. If it ever becomes a commercial product, you would be able to carry your house in the truck...
- Tags: pavilion, Alexis Rochas
- Blog posts 2006-08-19
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- Is open source anti-American?
- Is open source anti-American?Who thinks up this stuff???NTJust because there's a profound, global, anti-American sentiment,doesn't mean Open Source is anti-American--unless you consider it anti-American for other countries to look for ways to avoid paying for, and using, American IP. There are lots of people who use Open Source alternatives...
- Tags: anti-American, American Business, Is open source anti-American, open source, IS open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- How to deploy to the cloud of your choice
- Every cloud computing vendor I meet makes a point of telling me how long it takes the average enterprise these days to provision a new server (for the record, they tell me anything from 2 weeks to 3 months). Last week I met a vendor that made precisely the same...
- Tags: Data Center, CFT, CFT Team, Virtualization, Data Centers, Server Virtualization, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- Fed cutbacks strips schools of tech funding
- In a report indicative of many schools across the country, educators in Santa Clarita, CA, are concerned that decreased state and federal funding for technology will compromise future technology programs, reports the LA DailyNews. Despite the fact that computer technology is becoming more ubiquitous in the workplace and firms...
- Tags: Funding, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2007-04-13
- More than geeks on RSA show floor
- 2007's RSA steps it up a notchFrom Alexis Skye--the self-proclaimed "world's tallest bikini model"--to hackers straight from Hackistan, RSA Conference 2007 had more than security to offer. CNET Networks' Joris Evers and Robert Vamosi report from the show.
- Tags: RSA Security Inc.
- Videos 2007-02-09
- MySpace 'friend' may cost school $3 million
- MySpace touts it is “an online community that lets you meet your friends friends”:"See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if you really are six people away from Kevin Bacon."MySpace is for everyone:Friends who want to talk Online Single people who want to meet other Singles...
- Tags: MySpace
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Louisiana video game law put on hold
- Louisiana video game law put on holdOf course it's getting overturnedJack Thompson worked on it.Uh oh. I said his name. How long till he shows up?Whatever happened toGood old Mom and Dad? I understand all about the video game violence and everything but what on Earth happened to parents...
- Tags: Games, irony, game
- Discussion threads 2006-08-25
- GSA moves forward on merger of tech, general acquisition services
- Congressional committees have given GSA the green light to move forward with the merger of two acquisition divisions into a single Federal Acquisition Service, the Post's Stephen Barr reports. The new acquisition service will be formed by merging GSA's Federal Technology Service, which buys technology such as computers,...
- Tags: U.S. General Services Administration
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- IT consultant tapped for top GSA post
- Lurita Alexis Doan pictured, the founder of the federal IT consulting firm New Technologies Management, is the administration's pick for administrator of the General Services Administration. The agency has been under the temporary leadership of David Bibb. New Technology held contracts with federal agencies valued at $212 million in...
- Tags: Doan
- Blog posts 2006-04-11
- Collaborative filtering: comparing Reddit's karma system to Digg
- In recent weeks I've given Digg.com a bit of coverage, albeit of the kind they wouldn't have enjoyed. But actually I love the concept of digg.com and I still think it has a lot of potential, as long as they reduce the groupthink and address the spam issues (which to...
- Tags: Digg, Reddit
- Blog posts 2006-01-16
- Firefox sees 100 millionth download
- Firefox sees 100 millionth downloadHappy 100,000,000th Firefox.well, considering you have to re-download the whole thing for each update..you can probably divide that by 5 and get the REAL number.Valis(hey firefox, heard of PATCHING?)Browser is garbage...All I can say is that Firefox is pure malware. I have banned it from my...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Web browser, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-10-19
- Is open source communist?
- Is open source communist?Korea loves LinusThat's South Korea http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/29/0322248 The anti-Communist one.Can this get ANY more ridiculous?Only in a GW run administration could such BS even be considered.Let's analyse this a little furtherThe central tenet of Marxism is that capitalists accumulate capital by charging more for products than the actual...
- Tags: Marx, Central Control, open source, communist, communism, labour, GPL, capitalist
- Discussion threads 2005-03-29
- Is open source communist?
- Is open source Communism in software form? (I had Karl Marx join us to set the mood.)That's the question asked by Kenneth Brown's Alexis de Tocqueville Institution,which draws backing from leading right-wing foundations. Brown has been after open source before.A recent TechWorld column charges his whole argument is a Microsoft...
- Tags: open source, Brown
- Blog posts 2005-03-29
- Apachecon!
- Here's a quick shout-out from the Open Source blog to Apachecon, that glorious time when lovers of the Web's top open source server get together to trade tips, techniques, and knowledge.This year they're under the Las Vegas sun at the Alexis Park Resort, one of the few hotels in town...
- Tags: ApacheCon
- Blog posts 2004-11-17
- Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationship
- Fact and fiction in the Microsoft-SCO relationshipInteresting article..Seeing as SCO has changed their lawsuit claims more times than I have changed underpants it is quite interesting that a company that is so strong in their case is protecting their income from the law sharks.I found the article very interesting as...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, e-mail, BayStar, SCO Group Inc., Microsoft Corp., RBC, Goldfarb
- Discussion threads 2004-11-15
- Feds could save $4.5 bln a year by switching to VOIP
- If government agencies at all levels started making voice calls over the Internet by using voice-over-IP technology, they could save around $4.5 bln a year, according to a research report being issued next week by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. nstitution researchers studied phone use and phone systems at more...
- Tags: VoIP
- Blog posts 2004-10-24
- Firefox smashes funding target
- Firefox smashes funding targetI used the money I saved not paying the Microsoft TaxNot since "Win98SE updates for Win98".. $19.99That was the last time I gave Microsoft money for ANYTHING.Can someone explain..the point of advertising a free beer product?I don't find this to be a useful exercise.Note FUD campaignsJust before...
- Tags: Web browsers, word of mouth, advertisement, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-10-22
- Torvalds steps into Linux trademark fight
- Torvalds steps into Linux trademark fightWhere's Alexis de Tocqueville's Book?I want to know! Alexis de Tocqueville promised their book would be out and show that Linus wasn't the father of Linux.Review copies went out, the money trail from them to Microsoft was revealed and the whole book project seems to...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., Linus, Linux, Linspire, Microsoft Windows, Torvalds
- Discussion threads 2004-08-11
- Anti-Kerry book defaced at online store
- Anti-Kerry book defaced at online storeIt was not graffiti or a hack, it was an inside jobIt was not just the cover. The book title was also altered to "FIT for Command" -- and was clearly visible on Barnes and Noble's web site under the altered title for several...
- Tags: online store, KERRY IS GOING
- Discussion threads 2004-08-09
- SCO still wants info from IBM
- SCO still wants info from IBMIn other wordsThey never had the proof they claimed to have and they have to extend as long as possible to make it look like they are credible enough to forstall their collapse.Flip the coinover and guess what... kettle meet pot. They have been ordered...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2004-07-09
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